Jones & Keefe: Making sense of the Drake Maye timing

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00:00Uh, we obviously both think this is the right call keith. Why do you think they're making the decision now?

00:05And how do you feel about the timing with houston specifically?

00:08That's not something we've gotten into a ton these last couple of days

00:10So yeah

00:11No, that's a good question about the houston thing because that now a lot of people are getting in on that and I I think

00:15We have you know the next couple of days to really break that

00:18They're one of the best teams in football and they have a great defense

00:20They made a rookie quarterback look pretty bad and caleb williams a couple of weeks ago

00:24So yeah, there's definitely that part of it. I think

00:27At the beginning of all this it certainly wasn't unanimous to go with jacoby brissette

00:31We had talked about this leading right up to the start of the season when we were still both hoping that it was going to

00:35Be drake may they go with brissette felt like it was very much an alex van pel eliot wolf decision

00:41I think at that point the crafts were saying hey, we just hired these guys

00:46We can't make the first major decision for him, right? Otherwise, why do we even hire him?

00:50So if that's who they want, let's go with it. Mayo

00:52I know he kind of walked it back, but he said van pelts the head coach of the offense

00:56So the head coach of the offense probably is going to be able to have a big say in the quarterback

01:00And so I think they played it out week one they win

01:03But even then mayo you could tell he wasn't super pumped about it. He's like this isn't sustainable

01:09We need to throw the ball more. That's a problem. But jacoby's our guy blah blah blah blah

01:13So then you lose week two and it's close and so it's like there's not a huge cry for the quarterback

01:18Even though we were both on it how he took a sack got him out of field goal range

01:21Maybe the game maybe the outcome is different. Yeah, I mean you say we were both on it

01:24That was mostly you I mean you were you were leading the charge

01:27Lumpian on that but like between that play and the brissette play last week

01:30We're just throwing over the middle of the field

01:31That's you're not getting anything out of a guy who is supposed to make veteran decisions

01:35He's he's doing the opposite then the next three weeks. It really goes south on you

01:38You have two lopsided losses and then I would say the san francisco game and the miami game jacoby brissette played bad

01:44It wasn't good enough or wasn't. Okay. He played bad and was one of the reasons

01:50That they lost now san francisco everything kind of went wrong but against miami

01:54It was just such a slog of a game. So if you got better quarterback play, you probably win

01:59and so at this point, I think mayo says

02:02Listen, we did your plan. This was your plan

02:05But we owe it to the rest of the team how we owe it to me to make this swap

02:09Brissette's not living up to his end of the bargain. We gotta play drake may we got we gotta do it

02:14Plus he's been practicing and they can kind of hide him right? So we don't know how good he's been at practice

02:18But hunter henry told us he's a great player

02:20A lot of other guys that have been there at practice have kind of talked him up a little bit

02:24So I think he said it's enough