Advice from Brian Hoyer could be beneficial to Drake Maye, as he was to Mac Jones

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Hoyer's sage phrases to the previous Patriot Jones could quickly come in useful for the present way forward for the franchise.

New England Patriots quarterbacks Mac Jones and Brian Hoyer operating on to the sphere earlier than they play the Los Angeles Chargers throughout NFL motion at SoFi Stadium. (Matthew J Lee/Globe employees)

Brian Hoyer has seen his share of deflating losses, just like the one the Patriots simply suffered towards the Seahawks in additional time on Sunday. From that have got here an vital piece of recommendation he as soon as rendered to former Patriots quarterback Mac Jones that younger quarterbacks, together with the rookie Drake Maye, would do effectively to bear in mind.

While breaking down Sunday’s defeat on the most recent episode of “The Quick Snap” podcast, Andrews made a pointed remark to Hoyer concerning the bitterness of a irritating loss — even should you personally had a stable efficiency.

“I think if you ever sit there and say, as a competitor and a teammate, ‘Well, I played good [in a loss]’, that’s [expletive],” Andrews mentioned. ” … No, you didn’t play adequate. There’s one thing you could’ve performed to assist the group play higher. That’s what we’ve received to do.”

That led the previous Patriots QB to share a chunk of a dialog he as soon as had with Jones throughout the latter’s rookie 12 months in 2021.

“He came from Alabama. He didn’t lose a lot,” Hoyer recalled, “There were some games we lost early in his career here … but he played really well. And I said, ‘Dude, this is not college in college. If you’re the quarterback and you play well [in college], you’re going to win. In the NFL, you may play your best game and lose. And there may be a game where you just play average, don’t turn the ball over, and we win.’ That’s the NFL.”

The sequence of these feedback is fascinating. Jones had a profitable rookie season after a National Championship-winning senior season with the Crimson Tide in 2020 however regressed due to questionable teaching choices and his personal deteriorated decision-making. In the top, Jones was benched midway by his third 12 months in New England and was subsequently traded to Jacksonville this offseason, the place he now serves as a backup.

It appears Jones struggled to adhere to Hoyer’s recommendation. Hopefully, New England’s next-man-up on the place, Maye, does higher.

Maye doesn’t look or play very similar to Jones, who was extra of a recreation supervisor who sometimes forgot his limitations. The No. 3 total select of North Carolina is athletic, rocket-armed and generally reckless in his willingness to throw into tight home windows and tackle contact as a runner.

He’ll probably undergo a chronic adjustment to the pace and complexity of NFL defenses when he first takes the sphere, simply as this year’s top pick Caleb Williams is by two begins. That will make it all of the extra vital for Maye to restrict errors equally to present starter Jacoby Brissett as he learns how to harness his expertise.

The Patriots would nearly absolutely welcome a recreation (particularly in his rookie 12 months) through which Maye throws for simply 130 yards however commits no turnovers in a win than a gun-slinging three-turnover recreation with extra passing yards in a loss.

Sometimes, profitable soccer is about not messing up greater than making spectacular performs, which is what Hoyer tried to convey to Jones. We’ll see if Maye embraces that message when it’s his flip underneath heart.