With ample preseason motion, loads of follow reps, 5 video games behind a veteran mentor in Brissett and a quick debut in Week 3, now’s the appropriate time for Maye to take over.
Brissett acquired New England off to an excellent begin this fall, because the Patriots upset the Cincinnati Bengals, 16-10, in Week 1 on the street, however they’ve since misplaced 4 in a row and been outscored 92-46. Mayo’s group has scored simply 26 factors over the past three contests and hasn’t topped 13 factors since Week 2.
New England has the ninth-ranked protection (20.4 factors allowed per recreation), however the Thirty first-ranked offense (12.4 factors per contest).
Brissett has gone 79-of-135 (58.5 completion proportion) for 696 passing yards with two touchdowns and one interception. Maye took 16 snaps within the Patriots’ Week 3 defeat towards the New York Jets and completed 4-of-8 for 22 passing yards.
The UNC product went 21-of-34 for 192 passing yards with one rating and no picks within the preseason, whereas Brissett completed 5-of-14 with 36 yards, no touchdowns and one interception. Maye was particularly impressive in New England’s preseason finale towards the Washington Commanders, going 13-of-20 with 126 passing yards and one landing.
Mayo has been holding the 2022 ACC Participant of the 12 months contemporary this fall too, as Maye has been sharing a near-split in reps at follow with Brissett.
The teen additionally enters a scenario the place crew expectations are low and the offense has already confronted two of the harder defenses on the schedule within the Jets (Week 3) and San Francisco 49ers (Week 4).
Of the next eight games forward of the crew’s Week 14 bye, the Patriots will solely sq. off towards two top-10 defenses. A kind of is the Jets (tied for fifth, 17.0 factors per recreation allowed), in Week 8, who’re in disarray following the firing of head coach Robert Saleh on Tuesday.
Maye’s first take a look at on Sunday comes towards the Texans’ Seventeenth-ranked protection, which has allowed 74 factors of their final three contests. Then the Patriots face the Thirtieth-ranked Jacksonville Jaguars protection (28.6 factors allowed per recreation), adopted by Gang Inexperienced.
From Weeks 9-13, New England faces one sturdy protection (Chicago Bears, tied for fifth), two middle-of-the-pack items (Tennessee Titans, Miami Dolphins at fifteenth and sixteenth, respectively) and two bottom-of-the-barrel teams (Indianapolis Colts, twenty fifth and Los Angeles Rams, twenty ninth).
Maye could not have an awesome group of offensive weapons to work with this fall, however he has quite a few different components working in his favor as he makes his beginning debut.
