EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — New England Patriots coach Jerod Mayo is sticking with Jacoby Brissett at quarterback.
“All the things’s all the time beneath analysis,” Mayo stated Friday morning, a day after Brissett was pulled from a 24-3 loss to the New York Jets in favor of first-round draft choose Drake Maye. “Simply so I’m clear: Jacoby continues to be our beginning quarterback till I say he’s not.”
Brissett acquired hit, harassed and pissed off all evening by the New York Jets’ swarming protection earlier than Maye got here in for his NFL debut. Afterward, Mayo stated “I do not know” who’ll be beneath heart for New England (1-2) shifting ahead.
“We discuss each single week that you just’re competing for a job,” Mayo stated after the sport. “We’ll get collectively as a training employees and see the place it goes.”
About 12 hours later, Mayo stated he would stick to the 31-year-old veteran.
“Proper now, I might say it’s nonetheless establishment,” the coach stated in a name with reporters. “I stated it earlier: Jacoby’s nonetheless our beginning quarterback, and we’ve acquired to be able to help him. There are 11 guys on the market on offense, so it’s everybody. So to reply your query, that’s into consideration presently.”
Even when he begins towards the San Francisco 49ers on Sept. 29, Brissett continues to be a placeholder for Maye, who was taken No. 3 general within the draft.
“I don’t make personnel selections,” Brissett stated. “My job is to go on the market and prepare to play.”
When requested what he thought of Mayo saying he was not sure whether or not he would possibly make a quarterback change, Brissett refused to gas any hypothesis.
“I’m not going to overreact to one thing I didn’t hear,” he stated. “He instructed me he was getting in. I’m not going to argue.”
Brissett was 12 of 18 for simply 98 yards and sacked 5 instances earlier than being pulled with 4:24 left within the recreation.
“I’m a giant man. I can take it,” Brissett stated of all of the hits he took. “I all the time get again up. Discovering methods to make performs, that’s what it comes all the way down to. It’s soccer. You’re imagined to get hit. You don’t join this sport to not get hit.”
Maye got here in and moved the Patriots’ offense down the sphere throughout their closing drive. The previous North Carolina star went 4 for 8 for 22 yards and was sacked twice, with the final one ending the sport.
“I assumed it was an excellent alternative for him to go on the market with the (first-team offense) and put a number of drives collectively,” Mayo stated. “We’ll watch the movie and consider.”
One other factor for Mayo to think about is the state of the Patriots’ banged-up offensive line.
Beginning left deal with Vederian Lowe (knee) and left guard Sidy Sow (ankle) did not play after each have been dominated out earlier within the week. Middle David Andrews (hip) and proper deal with Mike Onwenu (wrist) performed after being listed as questionable.
In opposition to the Jets, left deal with Caedan Wallace — beginning for Lowe — and left guard Michael Jordan — beginning for Sow — did not end the sport after being injured within the fourth quarter.
“I assumed the offensive line at the moment had a tough time,” Mayo stated. “There have been instances early within the recreation when the pockets seemed fairly clear. As the sport went on, just like final week (towards Seattle), it began falling aside so far as the safety.”
New England was manhandled by the New York protection, after which Aaron Rodgers sliced by way of the Patriots for lengthy drives all through the evening.
New York completed with 400 yards to New England’s 139 and had 27 first downs to the Patriots’ 11.
“It was dangerous. Dangerous in all phases,” Andrews stated. “We didn’t play like how we needed to play. They dictated what we needed to do. Hats off to them. They’d an excellent plan and performed rather a lot higher than we did tonight.”
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