Patriots coach Jerod Mayo has chosen Jacoby Brissett as the team's starting quarterback as the veteran held off a late surge from rookie Drake Maye.
Mike Reiss is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the New England Patriots. Reiss has covered the Patriots since 1997 and joined ESPN in 2009. In 2019, he was named Massachusetts Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association. You can follow Reiss on Twitter at @MikeReiss."We have decided, or I have decided, that Jacoby Brissett will be our starting quarterback this season," Mayo said Thursday."In saying that, as an organization, we are 100% behind Jacoby.
At the same time, Brissett's experience in the team's system, along with the totality of his work going back to the spring, was weighed in the decision-making process.Asked if the decision means that Maye would sit for an extended period of time, Mayo said:"I don't want to get into hypotheticals. We can't go into the season saying, 'He's going to go X amount of weeks.
"There's certain things in this offense that Jacoby, having played in it, understands some of the tools you can use to get out of certain situations, pressure situations," Van Pelt said."Things like that that Drake is still learning. He is pushing."
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