Jacoby Brissett Named Week 1 Starter Over Drake Maye | GSMC Chip Shot Football Podcast

[Music] hello and welcome to the gsmc Chip Shot football podcast brought to you by the gsmc sports network I'm your host Manny Mar die live today on Thursday August 29th heading closer to the end of the week just before next week when we'll have officially a football game during the duration of that week so which is counting down the days now until we're officially back into the regular season of the NFL but in relation to that we're going to talk some more official decisions that were made and also continuing on with our series of ranking uh the final standing predictions for each division that will come later on in the show but to start off we're going to mention two quarterback decisions that were made the Patriots and the Steelers both announced that Russell Wilson and jacobe brisette will be their starting quarterbacks so we're going to get to those two decisions what did Mike Tomlin what did Rod Mayo have to say on why Russ and jacobe were both selected and in recent development with the 49ers and Brandon auk another thing happened recently on Wednesday that I feel could be a Breaking Point in all of this so we're going to touch on that as well plus a couple more segments on today's show but before we get started this show is always better I believe when you guys give your opinion ask a question or share any opinion that you have to say on any of the topics or anything I have to say and what better way to do it than with our brand new Super Chat feature that is available to you guys now with this show just click the dollar sign at the bottom of the chat box to send in your super chat this is a great way to not only give a question provide your opinion or make a comment on anything I say or on any of the topics on any show but it's also a great way to support our Channel and to keep keep this Sports content coming each and every day to you guys so again make sure to use the Super Chat feature just click the dollar sign at the bottom of the chat box to send you 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jacobe brassette and Drake May both separately and together about his decision then he revealed it then he revealed it to all players in a team meeting just before he had his press conference and revealed the official decision to the entire media and that's when it all obviously went out to everybody and in his statement to the media he mentioned that they're 100% uh behind jacobe brassette and also in a much more detailed explanation on how he came to his decision gerod Mayo said there are a lot of factors that led to this choice I think the hard part is thinking in the short term and the long term at the same time as an organization though we feel like Jacobi gives us our best chance to win right now and that's what you'd expect right that's what you'd expect any head coach to say similarly later on in the show when we talk about Mike Tomlin it's all about winning right now right and that usually means going with the more experienced more Savvy veteran that you feel a little bit more safe going with uh at least to start the year right at least to get everything going see what works see what doesn't sort of navigate through those murky Waters if anything does happen to go wrong you know you rely on that veteran experience especially like jacobe brassette in this instance because last week it was mentioned by uh Alex Vel the Patriots offensive coordinator that one of the big reasons that he was sort of he didn't say he was favoring jacobe but you can sort of tell by what he was saying that Jacob's knowledge of that offense that both of them ran together with the Cleveland Browns just in 2022 that was a big sticking point with him obviously knowing the ins and outs of what Alex Vel is trying to get out of this offense and knowing how to audible the different things how does one play call you know affect what a defense is doing or how does the defensive lineup affect what you call at the line of scrimmage all that sort of stuff comes with the numerous repetitions that jacobe has ahead of Drake may obviously being a rookie so that's where uh that's where I mentioned it to to you guys in just these past episodes right you know just going with the safer option just for right now it's especially it's all relatable right it's all relative actually to each team what the Patriots have to deal with in just this season is not the same as the Steelers and their quarterback decision and with the Patriots I just felt that it looks like you're going to be faced with a lot of obstacles a lot of times being knocked down and having to get back up and just learning a lot this season so with that in mind you know with this potentially being a bumpy ride I feel like there's no real reason to throw out your rookie out there for a couple reasons that I will get to um just in just a little bit but I think overall with jacobe winning this job it's not like a negative thing for Drake may obviously he probably wanted to start and um he probably fell ready or he felt that he improved a lot over the spring but that's exactly where I'm going to because I thought this was going to be a lot slower process I didn't think we were going to look at Drake May and see what he was producing out there on the field until like halfway through the regular season if that but at that point you wouldn't get a chance to see it obviously play out you'd only hear about it in practice but the fact that we got a chance to see it in the preseason and not only that but hearing about it as well throughout training camp and how Drake slowly was getting gaining some more confidence he was going out there and playing pretty well against you know some joint practice opponents or just the patriots day in and day out defense as well he was impressing a lot of of people so getting the chance to see that already at this early of a stage I think is one of the better things to have develop already right now because he pretty much closed that Gap a lot bigger Gap like I predicted from the spring time where there might have been some um some misc some mistakes he closed that Gap pretty quickly by the time the last preseason came around and everybody was pretty I wouldn't say 50/50 on it but they thought it was a lot closer and they wouldn't have been surprised if Drake May ended up starting um 2024 as the starter obviously and that's sort of where also you got the inclination of that could have happened because of gerod Mayo's words because uh it was pretty interesting when he said that after their third preseason game I want to say Gerard Mayo mentioned that Drake may actually outplayed jacobe brassette in this uh in this year's preseason he said he played better than jacobe but um that their quarterback competition was also pretty open you know it wasn't like Mike Tomlin saying that Russell was in the pole position or something like that or that jacobe had a leg up just because he was the veteran you could have thought that but gerod Mayo never really mentioned it like that or spoke about it like that especially over the last few weeks so the fact that he mentioned that this was an open decision the fact that he said that Drake may just outwardly saying that he played better um you kind of had a feeling that you know you don't know really what's going to happen you wouldn't have been surprised if Gerard Mayo named Drake May the starting quarterback but you know in that same breath you got that inclination but also it didn't really feel like a quarterback competition also because now looking at it in hindsight right you hear what Rod Mayo's saying you know this quarterback played better it's an open competition if that was to be the case uh I felt like if this was a true competition then Drake May would have ultimately ended up winning the job much like the Denver Broncos for example Jared stum was their starter last year B Knicks comes in and he plays better so he earns the starting job and it's different here with the Patriots obviously I feel like it wasn't really an open competition much like other people around the media sort of deemed the Steelers as saying it saying it was an open competition but not actually meaning it it's sort of this a similar thing with the Patriots in this instance just because I feel like it was always going to be jacobe not that that's the wrong decision I actually think it is the right decision because you have nothing to lose really um or really nothing to gain too much with just throwing Drake May out there and that's the tricky part about it right because I feel like Drake May will eventually play this year but maneuvering when that point actually comes is going to be a very crucial thing to uh to determine if if you're dad Mayo if you're Alex Vel and anybody making that decision but now with jacobe being the starter some things to look at to give you guys any indication of when maybe he could be pulled or making sure he keeps up these things to keep that starting job over the course of 2024 some things I'll be looking at would be just showing that command of that offense obviously that was a big reason why he got that job knowing what to do with this offense knowing how to run it so making sure to show that command is non-negotiable also limiting the turnovers the protecting the football as well and just making good decisions ultimately because this is a young team there's going to be mistakes there's going to be some hiccups but making sure that you're that people don't look at you as the reason that you're losing I think that's pretty much all you could ask for for or from jacobe brassette and then uh something else to keep in mind with the Patriots is that their offensive line has been a struggling Point throughout pre season so you know giving up pressure allowing pressure to come in with less than half a second each time whichever quarterback was back there that wasn't going to change so with that being a questionable portion of your team not to I don't know say that you're okay with jacobe taking those hits or anything like that but um again you don't want your rookie quarterback going out there and then just getting killed or being rushed and then throwing interceptions and things like that uh jacobe more so than not then Drake May knows how to maneuver and knows how to navigate through those scenarios and try to limit the pressure as much as possible with changing the protection lineups or things like that so that's another reason keeping track of that offensive line and hoping that it gets better will be a crucial point for the Patriots this year but ultimately it is jacobe Brett's job now it is his job to lose it what it always felt like it was that way once the announcement was made that he was going to sign there once they drafted Drake may I always felt it was going to be that and now it's just a matter of when we see Drake may not if because again I feel like he is going to play at some point this year you don't draft a guy that high to just sit him on the bench all year that's just me but leave your guys' thoughts on when and if we will see Drake may I really really do believe we're going to see him but we're just going to have to wait and see when but ending on one quarterback decision and starting another one the Steelers also named Russell Wilson their starting quarterback we're going to talk about that what went into the decision and whether or not um this was the right decision obviously so that is coming up after the break you're listening to the gsmc Chip Shot football podcast [Music]