EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Jacoby Brissett shrugged his shoulders as he answered the final question of his press conference in the bowels of MetLife Stadium on Thursday night.
The veteran quarterback had just spoken of the respect he has for an offensive line that allowed him to get hit 10 times, sacked five, and pressured constantly in a 24-3 loss to the Jets, and Brissett was then asked about Jerod Mayo’s comments from minutes earlier. The Patriots coach said he didn’t know who his quarterback would be next week in San Francisco. “That’s —,” Brissett paused.
“I’m not going to overreact to something that I didn’t hear.” Brissett has done just about everything right since coming back to New England. He’s mentored and cheered Drake Maye as he competed against him, he’s served as a punching bag behind a porous offensive line, and his teammates respect him so much that he was voted a captain despite a one-year placeholder deal.
“That’s a soldier right there,” DeMario Douglas said. “Taking hits and getting up, he’s going out there fired up. That’s the definition of a soldier right there.
They get up and they push through the hard times.” After the one-sided loss to the Jets, Mayo had been noncommittal on his quarterback for Week 4 following Drake Maye’s late fourth quarter NFL debut. “I don’t know,” Mayo said.
“We talk about it every single week that you’re competing for a job so, we’ll get together as a coaching staff and see wh.