Jacoby Brissett bought hit, harassed and pissed off all night time by the New York Jets‘ swarming protection.
Then the Patriots‘ veteran quarterback was pulled in favor of rookie Drake Maye, who made his NFL debut late in a lackluster 24-3 loss Thursday night time.
All of it left some uncertainty about who’ll be underneath middle for New England shifting ahead.
“I do not know,” coach Jerod Mayo mentioned. “We discuss each single week that you simply’re competing for a job. We’ll get collectively as a training workers and see the place it goes.”
The Patriots (1-2) might stick to the 31-year-old Brissett, who’s checked out as principally as a placeholder for Maye. Or New England might get the No. 3 total decide on the sector to start out a bit ahead of anticipated. The Patriots play at San Francisco subsequent Sunday.
“I do not make personnel choices,” Brissett mentioned. “My job is to go on the market and prepare to play.”
When requested what he considered Mayo saying he was not sure whether or not he would possibly make a quarterback change, Brissett refused to gas any hypothesis.
“I am not going to overreact to one thing I did not hear,” he mentioned. “He advised me he was stepping into. I am not going to argue.”
Brissett was 12 of 18 for simply 98 yards and was sacked 5 instances earlier than being pulled with 4:24 left within the recreation.
“I am an enormous man. I can take it,” Brissett mentioned of all of the hits he took. “I all the time get again up. Discovering methods to make performs, that is what it comes all the way down to. It is soccer. You are presupposed to get hit. You do not join this sport to not get hit.”
Maye got here in and moved the Patriots’ offense down the sector throughout their ultimate 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 alternative for him to go on the market with the [first-team offense] and put just a few drives collectively,” Mayo mentioned. “We’ll watch the movie and consider.”
One other factor for Mayo to contemplate is the state of the Patriots’ banged-up offensive line.
Jets beat Patriots 24-3; is Aaron Rodgers formally again?
Beginning left deal with Vederian Lowe (knee) and left guard Sidy Sow (ankle) did not play after each had been dominated out earlier within the week. Heart David Andrews (hip) and proper deal with Mike Onwenu (wrist) performed after being listed as questionable.
Towards 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 mentioned. “There have been instances early within the recreation when the pockets regarded fairly clear. As the sport went on, much like final week [against 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 night time.
New York completed with 400 yards to New England’s 139 and had 27 first downs to the Patriots’ 11.
“It was unhealthy. Dangerous in all phases,” Andrews mentioned. “We did not play like how we needed to play. They dictated what we needed to do. Hats off to them. They’d plan and performed so much higher than we did tonight.”
Reporting by The Related Press.
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