Patriots had been only workforce Jacoby Brissett did not want to draft him

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As Jacoby Brissett waited for his title to be known as in the 2016 NFL Draft, the quarterback out of NC State was content to be taken by any group in the league — apart from the New England Patriots. Then, following 90 selections had been designed, an unfamiliar range appeared on Brissett’s mobile phone.

“I’ll hardly ever ignore, [offensive coordinator] Josh (McDaniels) identified as me on the cellular phone on draft night and I didn’t have his variety saved. That’s how undesirable it was. I did not even have his selection saved in my cellphone,” Brissett stated on the McCourty twins’ “Double Coverage” podcast. “I was like, ‘Damn, person.’

“I actually did not want to be there. When I took my take a look at there — my pre-draft take a look at — I was like, ‘Hell no. If one particular workforce drafts me, it superior not be them.’”

Brissett’s challenge with enjoying for Invoice Belichick appeared to stem from the notion of the previous-college, no-nonsense method of the legendary coach. However, on arrival to New England, Brissett promptly discovered the value of the natural environment.

“Then I get there, everyone’s like, ‘Man, it’s New England,’ and then you just meet up with some of the dudes on the workforce like you (Devin McCourty),” Brissett said. “That’s when (Terrence Knighton) was on the crew and Anthony Johnson and Martellus (Bennett) and it was just pleasurable, guy. I have by no means been about so many older dudes that were being so youthful, you know?

“And a single of the principal things that I learned was just how to be a professional. How to be equipped to — we would giggle in the locker place and decompress when we weren’t executing football things, but when we were in football, every person thinks it is like the army. We have been locked and loaded. And there was no video game wherever we felt like, ‘Damn, this team may possibly defeat us.’ Jason you know coming into that from a distinctive staff, you are just like, ‘Damn, the confidence here is mad.‘”

Brissett, 27, was traded to Indianapolis following a person Tremendous Bowl-successful period. He has made 30 begins for the Colts around the previous three seasons.