Patriots Winless?

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Could the Patriots go winless? Wiggy thinks they could. Greg is asking Wiggy to put aside his bitterness. What do you think the Patriots' record will be?

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00:00It's a Patriots Friday, and this week's Cross Insurance Player Spotlight is on Jacoby Brissett,

00:09your starting quarterback.

00:11As you would expect it to be, Cross Insurance, official insurance broker of the New England

00:16Patriots.

00:17Wiggy, I would ask you to try to, if you could, turn away from the anger and the bitterness

00:26and the disgust and the disappointment that you and Chime and the rest of the Drake Mayors

00:36have.

00:37And tell me whether or not Jacoby Brissett can be the guy to get this team up over that

00:45four and a half over total when it comes to wins this season.

00:50I don't think so.

00:51I think you're going to get what you, what we've seen, what Jacoby Brissett is, a quarterback

00:57in this league when he's gotten his opportunity, you know, not very good.

01:02We know he's not very mobile.

01:04I think if anything, Alex Van Peltz, you're going to see as basic of an offense, it might

01:11even be more basic than last year, meaning run the football, run the football, just basic

01:18short passes, all things that Drake May could do.

01:22But you know, if I'm looking at this offense with Brissett, what is he going to give you?

01:28It's not going to be much.

01:29And it's really going to be about how this defense performs.

01:32If this defense doesn't perform well, and I know Andy Hart said this in the afternoon

01:37show and they might not win a game.

01:45I think it's a, I think it's a very, I think it's a very likely possibility, man.

01:52I mean, I don't know why when you say that people go, wait a minute, I, they are, they're

01:57underdogs in every single game wiggy, right?

02:00But we always go like, all right, the defense will steal one.

02:03But if they don't, you would say that when Bill Belichick was your head coach, like,

02:08I mean, I, I mean, it's going to be tough.

02:14It's going to be tough.

02:16I just look to, let me see, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

02:23They could be 0 and 8 by the time they play the Titans.

02:28I don't know.

02:29It's, it's very disappointing because at least when you have a guy and this is what I'm looking

02:36for and I, and I, and people just don't get it.

02:39At least when you have a guy like Drake May playing, like if I was a Jets fan, I would,

02:43I would cling on to some of the good games that Zach Wilson played as a rookie, right?

02:50That's what you try to do.

02:51You say, oh, wow.

02:52You know, we even like saw that we're like, ah, well, you know why he made, I had a great

02:55game against Buffalo.

02:56I forget who it was.

02:58Is that who we could potentially be?

03:01And that's what you can kind of hang your hat on.

03:03If you're watching Drake May, this, his rookie year say like, oh, okay, he pops doing this.

03:09That looked good.

03:10He could be that.

03:11I mean, if you take just the division alone and I've been, I've been somewhat high, not

03:18like your high, but my high on the Jets.

03:21But then yesterday there was that re report by an anonymous agent that said the Jets are

03:29in complete disarray.

03:31Use the word disarray.

03:32That's coming from a player who's sitting on the bench, but go ahead.

03:35Well, it's agents, but it's where do you think the age is getting it from?

03:39I mean, his player that's sitting on the bench, you know how Aaron Rodgers is like,

03:44I mean, he's a dink.

03:46He is a dink.

03:48And you know that Robert Sala is somebody whose job has been in jeopardy for the last

03:54couple of seasons.

03:56That is true.

03:57I mean, maybe you get one here against the Jets.

04:03I don't think you're going to beat Buffalo.

04:05I don't know about Miami.

04:06Like now Tua, by the way, is a guy who sat behind Ryan Fitzmagic for a considerable amount

04:15of games, like seven, eight, nine games that he did, that made him a better quarterback.

04:20So for those that are arguing in the other direction, that is a point in their favor.

04:25Yeah, I would give him that, but at least Ryan Fitzpatrick, that's not Jordan Love sitting

04:31behind Aaron Rodgers, but at least Fitzpatrick one year in his career, I think he went 10

04:35and six as a starter and you could go, oh, okay.

04:38Like he showed a little bit, but also the head coach didn't want to draft Tua.

04:42Like they brought in an offensive coordinator to design an offense specifically for Fitzpatrick,

04:46not for Tua.

04:47And then when I look at Aaron Rodgers, early in his career, there was a coach that was

04:52yelling at him loudly.

04:53Yeah, the same coach that didn't want him.

04:55That's probably why he was yelling at him.

04:57Very, very loudly.

04:58And then when I look at Aaron Rodgers, sometimes in a mean way too, also, when I look at Aaron

05:05Rodgers with the dysfunction, I know this about Aaron Rodgers as a starter in the NFL,

05:10he's 148 and 75.

05:12So with him as your starting quarterback and a good football team, the likelihood is that

05:19they're probably going to be pretty good.

05:21I'm not saying they're going to win a Superbowl, but I don't, I think this team, if Rodgers

05:26is healthy, they're going to be a playoff team.

05:29You got the division.

05:30We know about Buffalo.

05:32They're a good football team.

05:33They have a good quarterback.

05:34Miami's a good football team.

05:36When you start to look at the Patriots and just, and I, like I said, I know Andy Hart

05:40said this, that he thinks that they could not win a game all year long.

05:44And I know you just brought up they are underdogs in every game.

05:47If the defense isn't what we expect them to be, a top 10 defense, I just don't know, like

05:58everybody knows I'm not a Mac Jones guy.

06:04Matt Jones is a better quarterback than Joe Kobe Brissett.

06:06Here we go.

06:07Yeah.

06:08No, no, no.

06:09So what?

06:10When was the last time Brissett was a starter for a season?

06:14I think 2019 for the season games last year.

06:17Yeah.

06:18But I'm saying like where he was the start of the season, he was a starter.

06:21I would say the Colts, 2019.

06:24So like we should go back and see like how many wins did Jacoby Brissett get those teams?

06:28His best year was seven and nine as a starter.

06:31That was it.

06:32How was the team around him?

06:33Uh, good.

06:34Cause that's what I say.

06:35That was right.

06:36Was that right?

06:37After Andrew Luck?

06:38Yeah.

06:39Yeah.

06:40It was a good football team, but you got seven wins as a starter when you had a pretty good

06:42team around.

06:43I know.

06:44So here he was that year.

06:45Jacoby Brissett.

06:46It was the 2019 season.

06:47Season.

06:48I know you guys talked about it.

06:49He went seven, seven and eight as a starter.

06:52He threw 18 touchdowns and had six interceptions.

06:57The only difference is that I don't think that Jacoby Brissett is going to turn people

07:00off.

07:01I don't think he's going to turn off other players in the locker room because I think

07:04he's a very likable guy.

07:05So he has the advantage over Mac there.

07:07Yeah.

07:08But the losing games could make players turn away pretty quickly.

07:12And the season prior to that, the 2018 season that you guys brought it up, they were 10

07:17and six.

07:18Um, and let's see, they lost in the divisional round to the Kansas city chiefs led by Alex

07:27Smith.

07:28Courtney makes a good point though, about players and the, the respect or the lack of

07:35respect when it comes to a quarterback, what do you think the guys that are on this team,

07:40who do you think they want to be the starter week one?

07:45I would think that the guys on this team deep down inside probably want Drake may to be

07:50a starter because they give him the best chance of winning from what we've heard though.

07:54Like Courtney, but that's what guys are not going to go.

07:57I'm not saying that they should do that, but I think that they've been almost over complimentary

08:02of Jacoby.

08:03Let me ask you this question.

08:04Who do you think gives them the best chance of, I think Drake may.

08:08So you don't think guys see that?

08:09I just think that sometimes, I don't know.

08:12Do you think guys, if you can see that and you're just an average spectator, who's watching

08:18from her coach spectator, but I'm saying watching from her coach, sir, you don't think the guys

08:25that are in the locker room see the same thing that I just don't know why the narrative

08:31that they've been, you know, bringing to the media has been overly complimentary.

08:36He's a nice guy.

08:38I think that it's more.

08:39So he's a vet.

08:40A lot of these guys maybe are chummy with him, friends with him, and he's just a nice

08:44guy.

08:45So guys do, unless you're a guy that's really, you know, like people don't like you, they're

08:49not going to criticize you in public.

08:51I'm going to say he's a good guy.

08:53He's a veteran.

08:54He's been around.

08:55So when you look at this team and you start to say who gives them regardless of everything

09:00else, the old line, not being very good, your wide receiver is still trying to figure out

09:05who they are.

09:06If you ask any person that has, that just has a functional brain at a third grade level

09:14and says, Hey, who gives this team the best chance of winning Brissett or me?

09:21I would say 99.9% of the people would say, well, because you know what Jacoby Brissett

09:29is or unfortunately, or unfortunately isn't bingo.

09:33You don't know what Drake may is, right?

09:35You've seen glimpses of it, right?

09:37And if you watch him all season long, he might look real bad at times.

09:41He might look like Zach Wilson, but after the first year there was some, I bet jets

09:46fans go, Oh, this kid has potential.

09:48We just need to do X, Y, and Z around them.

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