FOXBORO, Mass. — Jerod Mayo is not strapping a ticking time bomb to Jacoby Brissett.
The Patriots head coach intends for Brissett to function New England’s beginning quarterback for the 2024 NFL season — these have been his phrases.
“We now have determined — or I’ve determined — that Jacoby Brissett might be our beginning quarterback this season,” Mayo stated at Gillette Stadium on Thursday morning. “As a company, we’re 100% behind Jacoby. There is no such thing as a, ‘You bought a man proper right here, you bought a man proper there.’ We’re 100% behind Jacoby.”
Mayo, who took two questions in the course of the sub-90-second press convention, was requested a follow-up relating to his phrasing of “this season.” Does that imply there isn’t any attainable method first-round rookie Drake Maye might take over for Brissett? Mayo addressed the query by doubling down in his assist of Brissett.
Story continues beneath commercial
“I do not need to get into hypotheticals,” Mayo stated. “We will not go into the season saying ‘Nicely, he is gonna go X quantity of weeks.’ So long as Jacoby goes on the market performing the best way all of us have faith in him doing, he’ll be our quarterback this season.”
We will not go into the season saying, ‘Nicely, he is gonna go X quantity of weeks.’
Jerod Mayo on Jacoby Brissett
Mayo clearly is pumping the brakes on the eventual Maye takeover, and that is an comprehensible tone in public. However everyone knows it is coming.
Mayo and the Patriots made the proper resolution to tab Brissett because the beginning coming into Week 1 in opposition to the Cincinnati Bengals. Brissett, at this present level, is the higher man for the job for a number of causes. He is extra skilled within the league and in Alex Van Pelt’s system. He is gone up in opposition to actual NFL defenses, not the cookie-cutter schemes Maye noticed in the course of the preseason.
Story continues beneath commercial
There’s additionally the actual fact New England’s offensive line doesn’t elicit a lot confidence, and it could not be smart for Maye to be thrown behind the group given he is nonetheless a creating quarterback.
With that stated, nevertheless, Maye’s enchancment in coaching camp and the preseason was eye-catching. He confirmed encouraging indicators because it associated to his footwork, processing, accuracy, athleticism, broken-play means, and so forth. The offense elevated itself when the third general choose was behind heart. It finally prompted Mayo himself to say that Maye outplayed Brissett within the preseason.
So whereas Mayo doesn’t need to publicly hold the door open for Maye, the preseason each of them had already indicated what everyone knows is coming.
