FOXBORO — According to his former school offensive coordinator, Bailey Zappe at all times knew he would ascend up the quarterback depth chart to turn out to be the Patriots’ beginning quarterback.
That word was handed alongside by Amazon Prime’s Kaylee Hartung on Thursday night time’s Patriots-Steelers broadcast.
“Zappe said it was a wake-up call when he got cut by the Patriots in camp,” Hartung mentioned on air. “And yet even as he signed with their practice squad, the very next day he told (college offensive coordinator Zach) Kittley, ‘Trust me. I’ve got this. Eventually, I’ll be the starter.’”
Zappe was requested Wednesday morning about these remarks, which he mentioned got here from a “personal conversation.”
“During that time, that was hard,” Zappe mentioned. “At that moment, getting cut, you don’t know what’s going to happen in the next 24 hours. It was mainly him just giving me confidence. Just talking to him back and forth in a private conversation. Just him telling me to get ready to go and that anything can happen. I just try to take it day-by-day. At that point on, just trying to get better every day as cliche as that is. Just trying to get better.”
Zappe has a reference to Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, whom the Patriots will face this week, by means of Kittley.
Kittley labored with Mahomes at Texas Tech as a scholar assistant and graduate assistant from 2013 to 2017. Kittley then went on to turn out to be Houston Baptist’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach whereas Zappe was on the faculty. Zappe adopted Kittley to Western Kentucky in 2021.
Zappe mentioned he hasn’t been in a position to discuss to Mahomes however that they observe one another on social media.
The two quarterbacks can have an opportunity to attach earlier than and after Sunday’s recreation at Gillette Stadium.
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