 Here is a look at zappy's day against the bills. He finished 16 to 26 for 209 yards also scored on an 18-yard run But zappy had more interceptions with three than the patriots had first downs two during new england's first six possessions Here is zappy on that dismal start I mean it's It's football things like that are gonna happen You're gonna have turnovers you're gonna throw three interceptions in a game But it's just how you respond how you you come back to the next series and how you play And I felt like we did a great as offense in the second half coming back You know we kind of flushed everything we came out together and we you know We played a great second half It just wasn't enough because of what we did in the first half current a couple weeks in With bailey's app anything four weeks in now with him as your starting quarterback. How do you feel about him as a starting quarterback? How do you feel about him as a quarterback? Oh as a as a quarterback He is trying to go from a developmental end of the roster player to proving He's a number two yesterday didn't offend me greatly because it's just a byproduct of a young player trying to understand an offense And go against a pretty good defense. He sees some things that don't work out big deal But this is not like me saying oh no This jeopardizes his chances of being the starter next year because I never pretended that he would be hoping to be that This is a lost season. These are lost games and he's getting starts that will prove to the patriots Where he fits in their depth chart But to me this didn't dash any hopes of him being useful in the role that he's going to ultimately have Phil on on the breakdown you and ted talked a lot about how different of a quarterback bailey's app He was one faced with the blitz versus when he was not blitzed And I just I guess I've been wondering because everyone again That that watches these games closely keeps saying this is just a number two guy And I feel like one of the big reasons why is once defenses start to figure out what kind of quarterback He is I feel like they're starting to expose his weaknesses Which tends to happen with backup quarterbacks, right? They play more and the more they play they tend to Come crashing back down to earth So I still look at this as he's got a bunch of opportunities here to prove that he's worthy of that number two spot Which I nest I based on what we've seen so far I'm not comfortable with moving forward and he's only got one more game to prove you're not comfortable with him As the number two even no, and I wouldn't be comfortable with him Certainly as the guy who's got to be a bridge maybe to a rookie who takes over You're telling me Bailey's happy for the first month of the season is a is a good option for a team that Wants to do anything. I just I don't believe that I don't I like the backup quarterback, especially for a team that might have a young starter to either Preferably if it's a young starter, it's got to be the older guy who you know can Play the game for about a month and not turn it over three times If you've got a more veteran guy greg than maybe you want a younger backup with some developmental upside Which I'm not sure he has either in terms of physical skill set So to me he's a three right now The only scenario that I'm okay with Bailey's happy as a backup is if you have an established starter Like you know that because I think he has proven with his Moxie his smarts his toughness that you know, he can go in there and he's not going to be you know He's not going to sort of you know go down to any sort of pressure or environment Like he you know, he's he's been putting some tough environments and he's done well But you know the longer he plays he's just limited I mean teams started the you know the The smart teams as opposed to denver the smart teams looked at what he wanted to do against denver They were ready for it. They had answers. They were jumping routes and then all of a sudden there are problems His greatest attributes Have been highlighted by the fact that he does have the boldness to step up to remain Focus down the field when there's chaos around him to not get caught up looking at the rush And he's shown more velocity and downfield accuracy the mac I don't know if he's got vastly a vastly stronger arm But he doesn't throw touch passes as often as mac does so that's been to his credit and I think additionally to his credit He has a very high opinion of himself. Oh, yeah, he doesn't buy into The things that we're saying he's a three's a two. He's a developmental guy. He believes himself to be better So that works in his favor But additionally does it because he makes throws sometimes like the throw on that slant Where his head is facing one way and then he just comes back the other way assuming It's gonna be there maybe because there's some confidence there deep with them and I give him credit for if he wasn't confident He wouldn't even be in the league. So yes, I think it works with him to a degree But I think it also gets him into trouble at times. That's why so Consistently inconsistent and he spent the entire camp trying to throw from ridiculous platforms inside arm balls outside And it was disgusting which is part of the reason you probably ended up being released But if you look at the two plays yesterday, if you want to hang your hat on okay Well, he came back and he did what he had a 48 yard screen to Kevin Harris And then they sent the entire house at him on a blitz and once everybody ran past him It was like, okay, I'll just trot into the end zone. So that was one of the touchdowns It's hard to get giddy about that performance. God bless him for being out there and having the team down six weeks I thought one of his best plays was he avoided a safety on one That was one of his best plays the entire game and and again that sort of gets down to who he is The gaseki play the jaylen rager throw down the sideline where rager made an unbelievable catch. He makes plays But he also You know the keeping the plays a live thing is a double-edged sword for him because sometimes it gets him into a lot of trouble I'm also a little surprised of the The excuse making after games and it's not the it's this weekend It's the first time we've heard it where he goes to great lengths to be like, well if x y and z didn't happen I mean we were right there We were right there in it and that to me also speaks to his confidence where he really thinks that One a lot better than four turnovers. I mean if I just clean a few things up We're winning all these games. I think it also speaks to where the patriots are as a team right now I mean the guy ahead of him mac was somebody who was grumbling and brian hoyer was there with him and saying Hey, you're right mac So he's watched that for two years and he's watched map patricia and joe judge Maybe look at mac and go Yeah, he's kind of a baby and he blames this and they blame mac and bill is clearly Blame mac and it's just turned into this firestorm where we saw it on two different occasions yesterday Him outwardly gesturing toward the sideline bailey zappy during plays that went sideways for him And it kind of I thought greg you're nodding That they got to clear that crap out of the system that mac got involved in too Yeah, I mean it just it just goes to they they need a complete reset on offense And what really irritated me about yesterday and some of the post game comments including bill And I wrote a column on this at bsj was you know bill talks about turnovers Like you know he gets disgusted about turnovers and he thinks like it's just in a vacuum that Like you could just get a player and he's not going to turn the ball over no turnovers Are a byproduct of the system that you put on offense the lack of protection the lack of Targets on the outside the the horrendous coaching from assistant coaches that causes turnovers You know who's around the patriots with turnovers this year in terms of giveaways the chiefs and the bills Because they haven't done a good job surrounding their quarterbacks either turnovers just don't happen in a vacuum bill They happen because you allow it you foster the environment where people have to try to make plays And then they turn the ball over and the chiefs and the bills have the talent To make up for those types of plays which obviously that's the patriots apart from the rest of the teams at the top of the league Well, at the very least they have quarterbacks Well, except for josh on it looked great yesterday, but for the most part they have quarterbacks You can cover up more mistakes than the patriots do