The Patriots had not had their full workers assembly as of 9:40 a.m. ET when Jerod Mayo was completed chatting with the media, so the pinnacle coach was not able to announce whether or not Jacoby Brissett or Drake Maye would begin at quarterback in Week 6 towards the Texans.
The passing assault struggled once more Sunday within the Patriots’ 15-10 loss to the Dolphins wherein Brissett was simply 18-of-34 for 160 yards. It was simply the second time this season that Brissett has thrown for over 150 passing yards in a recreation. He’s averaging simply 139.2 yards per recreation, the Patriots haven’t received since Week 1, and Mayo famous Monday morning that he thought the staff’s offensive line “did a fairly good job” when requested if the unit held up effectively sufficient to correctly assess Brissett and the passing recreation.
“Each single day we’re all being evaluated, and there’s no distinction now,” Mayo mentioned about doubtlessly turning to Maye.
Mayo would beforehand use Monday’s platform to endorse Brissett because the starter. That modified this week.
Brissett didn’t flip the ball over Sunday, however with the sport on the road, he threw four straight incompletions from the Dolphins’ 12-yard line with simply over a minute left within the recreation and three timeouts. On the ultimate play, with 12 seconds remaining and no timeouts, he accomplished a cross to tight finish Hunter Henry in the course of the sector, which induced the clock to expire. Mayo known as it a “mis-execution on a number of ranges” on WEEI’s “The Greg Hill Present.”
“It simply wasn’t adequate,” Mayo instructed reporters Monday morning when requested how he would consider Brissett’s efficiency. “I assumed we performed effectively sufficient defensively and on particular groups to win the soccer recreation. Look, because the quarterback — and he understands this — he touches the ball on each single play and we didn’t win the sport or rating sufficient factors to win the sport. I feel he would echo that very same sentiment that it wasn’t adequate.”
Maye, the third general decide within the 2024 NFL Draft, has appeared in a single recreation with the Patriots this season. He was 4-of-8 for 22 passing yards and rushed twice for 12 yards. Mayo has acknowledged that Maye outplayed Brissett by the tip of coaching camp however had maintained, till Monday, that the veteran recreation the Patriots the most effective likelihood to win.
“That’s a dialog, not solely at that spot however all of the spots, of how will we get higher as a soccer staff,” Mayo mentioned on WEEI. “We’re not taking part in effectively. It’s not a secret. Being the pinnacle coach of this staff, I’ve to simply accept the entire duty for that.”
Mayo did finally say it’s his choice on whether or not to begin Maye.
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