New England Patriots coach Jerod Mayo has chosen Jacoby Brissett as his staff’s beginning quarterback for his or her season opener in opposition to the Cincinnati Bengals.
Brissett will get the nod over rookie first-round draft choose Drake Maye, who he shared snaps with all through coaching camp and the preseason.
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Mayo mentioned he spoke to Brissett and Maye individually, after which collectively to tell them of his determination. Mayo advised the staff Thursday morning throughout a staff assembly.
“There have been numerous components that led to this alternative,” Mayo mentioned. “I feel the exhausting half is considering within the quick time period and the long run on the identical time. As a company, although, we really feel like Jacoby offers us our greatest probability to win.”
However Mayo made it clear that they are not heading into the season planning to shuffle between quarterbacks.
“As a company we’re 100% behind Jacoby. There isn’t any, ‘We have got a man proper right here, we have a man proper there,'” Mayo mentioned. “So long as Jacoby goes on the market and performing the way in which that all of us trust in him doing, then he’ll be our quarterback this season.”
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Brissett, who’s heading into his ninth NFL season, signed a one-year, $8 million cope with the Patriots in March. It reunited him with the staff that drafted him within the third spherical in 2016.
After being traded to Indianapolis by the Patriots in 2017, Brissett spent 4 years with the Colts and had one-year stops with the Miami Dolphins, Cleveland Browns and Washington Commanders.
He is appeared in 79 video games with 48 begins alongside the way in which, rising right into a revered veteran within the league.
That have was useful to Mayo and new government vp of participant personnel Eliot Wolf, who needed to have a confirmed veteran on the roster to assist mentor Maye.
Whereas Mayo acknowledged earlier this week that he felt Maye had outplayed Brissett this preseason, he mentioned different components shifted the pendulum towards Brissett, most notably his general expertise.
That can be significantly essential early this season because the teaching workers continues to work out consistency points with an offensive line that may start the season with out beginning left guard Cole Unusual, who will begin on the bodily unable to carry out listing with a knee subject.
Reporting by The Related Press.
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