Patriots Choose Jacoby Brissett as Starting QB: Right Move Over Drake Maye? | GSMC Sports Podcast

welcome back into the gsmc sports podcast as we are now going to dive into the news that was announced yesterday that the New England Patriots are naming quarterback jacobe brassette as their starter for week one the Patriots it seemed like this was always sort of going to be the case of brassette being the starter to open the season but head coach Gerard Mayo talked about how it was a competition and right around that same time is when we saw Drake May really start to emerge and flash his potential it was around that Philadelphia game after a pretty disastrous practice midweek against the Eagles from that point on it really seems like the reporting has shifted that Drake May has looked like the better quarterback at as of the last few weeks which is why this became a little bit more of a quarterback controversy than initially anticipated especially because of the fact that jacobe brassette on the other side has not looked good and we've talked about we T looked at these statistics from the first three games combined of the preseason ultimately it was a it frankly it was a poor showing for jacobe brassette and ultimately not all that promising in terms of he won the starting job for himself I think it was more so about the fact that where the Patriots are currently at the job was anticipated to be brettes and Drake may just made it closer than it was initially thought out to be but I do even though I think that Drake May has a chance to be a better quarterback than jacobe brassette this upcoming season and specifically could be better tailored to handle the overall situation with the Patriots this season isn't about wins and losses it's about what may looks like long term and like I mentioned I think May might be better suited to help the Patriots offense stay competitive this year because of the fact that he has athletic ability which is good because whoever is playing quarterback for the Patriots is probably going to have to be running for their lives a little bit with how bad their offensive line play is starts on the offensive line I really think that that's the main thing it doesn't help that the receiving Corp is also pretty subpar Kendrick Bourne their number one wide receiver is starting the season on the physically unable to perform list so he won't even be available until at least week five when the team will face off against the Dolphins so there those first four games at Cincinnati verse Seattle at New York Jets and at San Francisco that is a very tough stretch to begin the season the Patriots as a whole have one of the most difficult schedules in the NFL this upcoming season they are I can double check check here according to Sharp football analysis they have the second hardest in the league only behind the Pittsburgh Steelers so the Patriots and on that same note the Patriots over under wind line is at four and a half so again sort of reiterating the idea that this season isn't about winning for the Patriots but what can go wrong for New England is if they throw Drake May in there too early and may was already seen as more of a raw Prospect coming into the NFL that this idea that mechanically he could be screwed up by facing tons of pressure taking tons of hits and also runs the risk a little bit of getting injured I don't think that the idea is to be quite as worried about injuries obviously yes they're always concerning but at the same time I think it's more about the performance itself people still generally speaking think that Anthony Richardson had a promising rookie season despite playing in just four games because when he played he flashed and obviously it's it's very unfortunate that injuries occur like that but ultimately you know the grade can still be positive even if you are dealing with injuries that's obviously not what you're hoping for if you're throwing out your Young quarterback there but injuries are also just part of the game so it's less so about the physical standpoint like that to me more so than it is we just saw ma Jones deteriorate for year after year after a very promising rookie season in 2021 things just only got worse as the offensive line got worse the receivers were unreliable and by the end of it he was seeing ghosts and I just feel like at the end of the day the Patriots have to be so conservative with how they go about this now you can't coach scared that's one of the number one rules in the NFL that it's not that you're coaching out of fear it's more so just thinking about the idea you know risk to benefit ratio here there's a good chance you can do more harm to the Patriots by throwing in there a little bit prematurely rather than even if you end up waiting a handful of weeks we've talked about this in the past and sort of tried to evaluate when it is that we could see Drake may I mean jacobe brassette was just knocked out of the game against Washington on Sunday night now mayo and brassette both said that if he needed to continue playing that it would have been no problem he could have kept going but preseason they just weren't trying to take any risks that's fine but jacobe brassette got absolutely bodied because of a botched offensive line play the Patriots offense was facing off against the backup Washington Defenders and at the line of scrimmage they just got absolutely lit up and in Edge rusher just came flying in and ultimately laid the hit stick on jacobe brassette which again he was able to finish out that drive but he did not return because of that shoulder injury and those are the types of hits that you are probably putting any quarterback in if they are playing behind this offensive line and again it's not just the o line I am very down on the overall process there doesn't help that the receiving core is also pretty young and unexperienced as well the fact that taquon thoron is now a starting wide receiver for the Patriots definitely came as a surprise to me given that he hasn't really proven anything in game or in preseason games to earn that spot just yet but like I mentioned Kendrick Bourne is going to be out for at least the first four weeks of the season and you're left with a lot of mediocre I like de Mario Douglas I like the upside of Jaylen pulk their rookie that they drafted in the second round out of Washington but there's obviously an adjustment period that is necessary there that I don't think you can shalk pen as you know one of their definitive top three receivers at this point and it's just again there's a number of players there Jaylen pulk tawon Thorton as well who was picked in 2022 and Javon Baker another draft pick from 2024 that maybe you can talk yourself into the long-term upside and that Drake May in these next few seasons will have guys to throw to but it's not like it is a very inspiring group up to this point either so my my entire thought process was that the Patriots just need to sort of begin building what the vision in the future looks like I don't think that that's really been clear these past couple Seasons where it just was seeming to get worse and worse under Bill bich and I think that the coach Bill bich was able to sort of overcome the roster flaws to some degree 2023 was a bit disastrous but even then they won some games games that they probably shouldn't have and going you know going back it's just every the draft the drafting has been abysmal belich didn't seem like he was doing a very good job now M Jones may have never been the guy anyways but he did M Jones zero favors himself in terms of being able to instill confidence and put compet and put competent Talent around him either to the point where it was always sort of bound to flame out for both Mack and Bill bich and now they're headed into this new era with gerro mayo I don't think that Mayo has done a great job navigating the media up to this point um I was talking to my cousin actually who is another Patriots fan and he made an interesting point about how Gerard Mayo played under Bill bich when he was a player coached under Bill bich when he became sort of a figurehead of the defense even prior to being the def defensive coordinator which was his promotion in23 so he played under him coached under him belich obviously notorious for not speaking to the media whatsoever giving them nothing and I there's a chance that Mayo's just never really seen you know what an actual coaching staff that speaks to the media looks like so I feel like he was a little bit in over his head espe specifically referring to this whole quarterback debate and competition as to you know ultimately what he was saying to the media how him and his offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelt didn't necessarily seem to be on the same page with some of the things that they said that Mayo was contradicting himself he was contradicting Van Pelt that it was a little bit messy But ultimately I do believe that they got to the right point of starting jacobe brassette at the beginning of the Season he has started I can double check here but I believe it's over 70 games that he started so it's not like you're throwing somebody in there who's just been I mean jacobe brassette to some degree has been a backup over the past few seasons but um I was so a he's played in over 70 games 48 career starts so big big difference there but I mean even still I think that we saw in 2022 where he was able to at least be a passable option for the Cleveland Browns while DeShaun Watson was serving his suspension last season towards the end of the year kind of seemed like the commanders preferred jacobe brassette and the stability and lack of recklessness I suppose in comparison to Sam Howell who definitely was a little bit of a wild card that they were more comfortable having brassette in to just provide some more stability three touchdowns zero interceptions again didn't even start any of those games just came in as a relief guy for Sam Howell in those instances but brassette he has not looked great in preseason but I think that ultimately once they get in the full groove of things once he starts to get more than two drives on any game maybe he can start to iron out some of those issues get his feet wet again and this is not going to be a good Patriots offense but I am optimistic about what their defense can provide in terms of yes you lose Matthew judon who was one of your Premier players on that side of the ball but I still don't think it's a bad defensive core as a whole and Gerard Mayo his entire background is defense and again it's Bill bich defense so not that he's going to be bill bich as a defensive strategist but he I'm sure has learned so much from belich over the past decade or so plus that he has been not just a coach but also a player under a staff Mayo can uh double check here but he was drafted in 2008 to the Patriots one Defensive Rookie of the Year and was with New England his entire career so I think he should be familiar with sort of what a functional offense looks like and I think he'll be able to come through and deliver a good enough defense it's just a matter of can that offense even be passable any form of reliable if that's going to be the case jacobe brassette has more experience and again I'm just okay with the idea of easing Drake May into this entire experiment because the Pats have a lot of holes to fill over the coming season but let me know whether or not you think the Patriots got it right in the comment section and why but we are now going to be moving on here as we close out our previews for all 32 NFL teams today we have our last team of the NFC West and of the NFL as a whole and we are going to be diving into the upcoming season for the Seattle Seahawks who just are headed into new eras maybe a little bit dramatic but I mean Pete Carroll also like that was an ERA for the Seahawks and now that he's out of town they bring in one of the great young defensive Minds in Mike McDonald to take over the franchise and try and help build up a little bit more of maybe a tough-nosed program so we're going to talk about whether or not they have what it takes this season to make it back to the playoffs after falling just short in 2023 so we'll dive into to that and more but first a quick break do not go anywhere we will be right back