Jones & Keefe: It's time to start Drake Maye
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00:00you want a silver lining, you want a potential bright spot, it's time to go to Drake Bay.
00:05Really?
00:06It's 10 days.
00:07Really?
00:07I know it's the Niners, it's time.
00:11Part of the reason the team looked so bad last night
00:14is they knew they had no chance once the Jets were rolled.
00:16They couldn't keep up.
00:17There was no answer.
00:18Offensively, you weren't going to get first downs.
00:20You weren't going to make plays.
00:22You were just going to beat Jacoby Brissett into a pulp.
00:25I will play Mayo here in a moment.
00:26I want your thoughts first, but Mayo made it pretty clear to me.
00:30The door is open.
00:30He's going to speak at 11 o'clock.
00:32I think we'll go to the podium live to hear from him,
00:34just in case there's any updates there.
00:35He made it pretty clear the door is open.
00:37Brissett didn't sound thrilled after the game.
00:40May made it clear he's ready if the Patriots are going to make the switch.
00:44Now's the time.
00:44We were all thinking week five or week six at home.
00:46You have 10 days to get Drake May in there,
00:49and I think that's the one big thing that we're going to be debating, discussing.
00:54We have already been discussing.
00:55Oh, for sure.
00:56We're going to be doing that all week going into the Niners,
00:58and I think the right move is to do it now.
01:00You think play Drake May?
01:01Yeah.
01:02What if he gets tackled?
01:04Jones, what if he gets hit?
01:06He did last night.
01:06What if he goes on the football field and gets bumped by somebody?
01:09Yeah, well, it would be the first time in the history of the sport.
01:11Like, I hate this, and we'll get into it as the show goes on,
01:13but there's a lot of people that are, and maybe some of you, and that's fine.
01:16We can talk it out, and you guys can call in, but the,
01:19oh my God, he's going to get killed.
01:20You can't play him.
01:21It's football.
01:22It's football.
01:23Guys get hit.
01:24They're also, they can't get Joe Theismann anymore.
01:27You can't grab a quarterback's head, twist it around, and have it not be a penalty.
01:30You can't dive into their knees.
01:32Guys get hit.
01:33Everyone's going to show the one replay from last night where a guy was on his legs.
01:37He looted him, and then he got like speared or like rock-bottomed or whatever.
01:40Guess what?
01:40He hopped back up.
01:41He kept going.
01:42He had the one semi-functional drive they had all night.
01:45So of course I want to play Drake May.
01:47I think it's comical that people don't.
01:49I think it's comical that people are like, oh my God, if he gets hit,
01:52he'll never be a good quarterback ever.
01:54It'll break him.
01:54He'll get physically, mentally, and emotionally.
01:56He won't be able to take it.
01:58Well, then all right, then.
01:58Maybe he's just not that good.
01:59I say play him.
02:00The rest of the guys on the team, as untalented as many of them are, still deserve to have
02:06the best chance to win.
02:07It's one, you're one and two, right?
02:09You'll put them out there early.
02:10You don't need to drag this out any longer.
02:12You and I both wanted him out there week one.
02:15For whoever, Elliott Wolfe or Alex Van Pelt made the decision to go with Percet.
02:19So fine, you have Percet for three games.
02:21Not even all of three games, right?
02:23Drake May comes in, makes his debut week two, or I'm sorry, week three.
02:27Josh Allen made his debut week one, his first start week two.
02:30Justin Herbert made his first start week two.
02:32And those guys never looked back.
02:34And so I would absolutely go with Drake May.
02:37And I also don't think the Niners are this 85 Bears, 2,000 Ravens.
02:42They just lost to Sam Darnold.
02:43Yeah, yeah.
02:43So before the season began, that looks a little bit more daunting than it is.
02:47It's also the mini bye week, if you will.
02:49So it's the perfect time to go from 30% of reps to 100% of reps.
02:53A couple extra practices.
02:54I think it's a no-brainer.
02:56He should start week four.