Joe Biden should take a page out of Jacoby Brissett’s playbook when it comes to getting dumped.

Brissett, the New England Patriots quarterback went out with class, standing tall.

Joe Biden, the pesident, went out with lesser class, standing small.

Brissett, who started the Patriots’ season, ending with a one and four record, was replaced as quarterback by rookie Drake Maye before Sunday’s game with the Houston Texans which the Patriots lost 41 to 21.

Biden was replaced with Vice President Kamala Harris before his game with Donald Trump.

In both cases the powers that be were looking for a leader who can win, like Tom Brady or Barack Obama used to do.

Despite the loss to the Texans, Maye, unlike Harris, showed that he could be that leader. Fans and teammates rallied around the young leader in a way that Harris could only envy.

One difference in the ousting of the two is that Brissett, being the pro that he is, took his dumping in favor of rookie quarterback Maye as part of life in the NFL. And the coaches had nothing but good things to say about him.

Unlike Joe Biden, Brissett did not pretend it was his decision to step down from his leadership role but was the decision of Patriot head coach Jerod Mayo and offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelt.

“It’s tough,” the rugged veteran quarterback, said.  “I don’t think words can really describe how tough it is.”

“I’ve been through hard things in my life,” Brissett said.  “I’m sure this won’t be the last time I go through something hard. I’ll be all right.”

Biden has yet to acknowledge that it was his friends — or former friends — Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi who forced him out of his campaign for reelection.

Instead, he has maintained the fiction, which nobody believes, that while he “merited” a second term, he was putting his “personal ambition” aside as a way “of saving our democracy.”

“I’ve made the preservation of democracy the central cause of my campaign,” Biden said in is speech to the United Nations. If so, nobody noticed.

This is like Brissett saying that while he merited to start against the Texans, he was voluntarily stepping aside to save the Patriots’ 2024 season, or what’s left of it.

Biden always said he would level with the American people and tell them the truth, yet he simply has failed to do so regarding his departure from his re-election campaign.

“I decided, after fifty years of public service, it’s time for a new generation of leadership to take my nation forward,” Biden read from his teleprompter.

The truth is that Biden was forced out because, stumbling and mumbling around, and defending a miserable record miserably, he could not win running against Donald Trump, which is why the Democratic Party leaders benched him in favor of Harris.

And while it is also true that Biden’s friends threw him to the curb, it was Trump who was largely responsible for knocking Biden out of the race in the first place after Trump demolished Biden — or Biden demolished himself — during their debate.

Biden does not have it in him to tell the truth, which probably accounts for his daily bitter snarling at Trump who did him in — calling him a liar — while bowing to Obama, Pelosi and Harris who pushed him out the door.

The tradeoff for Biden is that is that the three, along with other leading Democrats, agreed to say good things about the outgoing president, the way Mayo and Van Pelt talked about Brissett.

Harris said that history will show how “courageous” Biden was for putting the “country above his personal interest.”

Obama said his “dear friend and partner” Joe Biden was one of America’s “most consequential presidents” in history and a “patriot of the highest order,” which sounded like Mayo talking about Brissett.

The difference is that Mayo and Van Pelt talking about Brissett believe what they said. They have more credibility talking about Brissett than Obama and Pelosi talking about Biden, and people know it.

Joe Biden should watch more football.

Peter Lucas is a veteran political reporter. Email him at: peter.lucas@bostonheald.com

New England Patriots quarterback Jacoby Brissett walks off the field after last Sunday’s game at Gillette Stadium. (Nancy Lane/Boston Herald)