First-year head coach Jerod Mayo has insisted in latest weeks that veteran Jacoby Brissett is the New England Patriots’ beginning quarterback over promising rookie Drake Maye till additional discover.
Patriots and NFL insider Albert Breer of Sports activities Illustrated supplied an replace on the state of affairs throughout an NBC Sports activities Boston look that aired earlier than the Patriots fell to 1-4 on the season by way of a 15-10 dwelling loss to the Miami Dolphins (2-3).
“I am advised he’s closing in now on being one of the best quarterback on the crew,” Breer mentioned about Maye, per Darren Hartwell of NBC Sports activities Boston. “So, what does this imply going ahead? Effectively, gamers can inform and see the drumbeat for the place that is going. I believe what that is gonna come right down to is, when he does wind up passing Jacoby Brissett and different individuals can see that he is one of the best quarterback on the crew, is the crew able to help him? I nonetheless suppose Drake Maye changing into the starter sooner or later in November could be very a lot on the desk.”
It is comprehensible Mayo desires to guard Maye contemplating Brissett took 13 sacks over the previous three video games whereas enjoying behind what stands out as the league’s worst offensive line. Nevertheless, Karen Guregian of MassLive famous on Monday morning that “the Patriots have to suppose lengthy and onerous about placing [Maye] in a bit of before hoped, or on this case, deliberate” after reporter Evan Lazar of the membership’s web site considerably controversially mentioned final week that the New England locker room was “teetering on mutiny” with Brissett within the lineup.
Based on ESPN stats, Brissett started Monday ranked twenty eighth within the NFL amongst certified gamers with a 38.8 adjusted QBR and twenty ninth with a 74.2 passer ranking on the season. In the meantime, New England is thirty first within the NFL with a median of 12.4 factors scored per recreation and final with a median of 119.4 passing yards per contest.
“His progress has been regular in all of the areas we have talked about: footwork, understanding what he is with defenses,” Breer added about Maye’s growth. “And actually, what he is made strides in during the last couple weeks is in blitz conditions. This is gonna be big as a result of that is an enormous a part of what the Patriots are getting thrown at them proper now with their offensive line problem.”
Mayo could not need to play the first-year professional in this coming Sunday’s dwelling recreation in opposition to the 4-1 Houston Texans. Nevertheless, the coach might really feel he has to start out Maye versus the Jacksonville Jaguars (1-4) in London on Oct. 20 to stop at the least some gamers from tapping out on the season forward of Halloween.
