What is a successful season for Drake Maye?

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What would be a good year for Patriots rookie quarterback Drake Maye?

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00:00I voted midseason and I feel kind of bad about that because it's the most

00:04Like moving goalpost vote where you could say anywhere week 2 to week 17

00:09It's really

00:11Right in the middle of middling it

00:13But I think that's where they're headed first of all like if I if I had to make a prediction today

00:18Judging by what they're doing in practices. They're still not having Drake may run with the ones which just is mind-blowing to me

00:25I don't understand it to me

00:27It's such a waste of time and what it's telling you while they're simultaneously in

00:32Press conferences telling you it's a quarterback competition. We don't know who our starting quarterback is gonna be week one

00:37I don't buy any of that

00:39I think that they're showing you

00:41Day in and day out while the media still has full access down at training camp that they plan to roll with Jacoby Brissett

00:48So in all senses of it

00:49I think you should expect to see Drake may at some point after week one some point in that week 2 to

00:5516 of the entire season

00:58Or that you just you know

01:00I I also think it is kind of the best thing for him at this point because they're not giving him the

01:05Opportunities that I think that he deserves at this point in training camp where the opportunity to run with the ones to build chemistry

01:12Not just with his receivers and the timing that should be there by the time that you get into a real NFL game

01:18but build communication and build communication with the offensive line that you assume that he's gonna be playing with and

01:24You've got 20 days until the first day of the sea of the actual season the first game

01:30and you've really got two weeks because you're gonna treat that week leading up to it mostly as game prep and install and

01:37I just don't see them fast-forwarding him that much and I think if they did they really haven't given him the chance that they could

01:44Already, okay. Mega wants midseason again moving goalposts pick your time. So boring. She's so boring

01:49Why doesn't she just have an opinion you could weigh in there on mega voting for midseason or can't hunch a boat?

01:54I voted starts week one. We're talking about the best outcome for Drake May

01:57I think the best outcome is this week or beyond whatever it takes here

02:02Certainly by Sunday

02:03we would think that he wins the starting job like he goes out there and he dazzles and the rest of these practices in the

02:08Walkthrough and then goes out there on Sunday against Washington and has a great game and makes it undeniable that he has to be the

02:13starter and that starting Jacoby Brissett would just not work for the fans not work for ownership not work for the other players in the

02:19Locker room, even though he's a veteran if he goes out there and he's so good that they can't deny it that it's just alright

02:25The decisions being made for us here. We can't we can't keep this kid on the bench

02:29That's the best outcome for Drake May

02:31I think I don't see how

02:32Even if you think that he hasn't gotten along with it with the ones enough and I do agree with that may go

02:37I don't think that he has played with them enough

02:39I think he should play with them

02:40But just because he hasn't I don't think that that necessarily means the best outcome would be for him to sit

02:45I think that he should be playing right away

02:46I think that he should be out there making his mistakes learning about the NFL and

02:50Getting big plays under his belt. Just that type of stuff to build confidence and get you going in your career

02:56I don't really see any point in starting midseason

02:58I hate the idea of a redshirt year

03:00The best outcome is that he balls out and wins the job and that no one can deny it

03:04Really quick. How do you not see any point in starting him midseason as we said that could be anywhere from week 2 to week

03:10The week 17 with week 2 then why not be week 1 and what's the difference? What about week 6?

03:15What about week 6?

03:18Value to him playing for 10 weeks

03:20No, I think that he should start week 1 just I don't see any value waiting until week 6

03:24I'm sort of with our can on this like if he starts week 6

03:27He probably could have started week 1 and if you're not starting him until week 14 after the bye week or whenever it is

03:32Then you probably should have just sat in the whole year. So to me look, I think the best outcome is absolutely week 1

03:37I've said that about every quarterback ever and I believe that I don't just believe that about Drake May

03:41I believe that about your guy Jaden Daniels and Caleb Williams and Bo Nix and all these I believe that about all

03:47These quarterbacks like pennex they drafted pennex eight. They probably shouldn't assign Kirk cousins

03:53He should be starting year one. And so I'd say that about any quarterback anywhere not just here and I have

03:58Injured, okay, JJ McCarthy injured different story. Okay, but JJ McCarthy

04:02I think would have won that job probably should have won that job and started early even with their brutal start to the year

04:07They have a tough schedule the Patriots really don't in terms of the defenses

04:11They go against Seattle and Cincinnati not great defenses. The Jets are really good defense San Fran's the only scary one

04:17I think in the first month and that's not a reason to sit him down to me

04:20I don't think and so week one of a broken record on this

04:23You know how I was gonna vote you guys can vote on the phone 6 1 7 7 7 9 7 93 7 or at Jones and Meg

04:29Oh in our big question of the day. It's up now there on Twitter two things

04:33I don't think it's just about Drake May if Jacoby Brissett continues to look all due respect you guys talked to him yesterday

04:38I didn't if he continues to look as terrible as he's looked. He's looked awful

04:42Is he I don't the numbers in front of me?

04:44Isn't he something like 3 of 10 for 17 yards and a pick something like that? That's in the second preseason in that game

04:50Yeah, oh that was just in that game. I thought that was combined. So it's even worse than that was in the second preseason

04:54Is you do you compete a complete a pass in the first game?

04:58the combined total I saw

05:01One series in the opener. I think it sounded like it's that's just from the second game. It could be both whatever

05:06Well, if someone could look them up, I don't have them in front of me

05:08It was something like yeah, he was over three in the first. He's stuck. He's been terrible

05:12And so it's not just about Drake May if Brissett looks broken and Brissett's throwing brutal picks like he did

05:18It's a little bit about him as well

05:21The only other thing that I would say about this breakdown

05:25Do you think mega there's still time meaning the preseason game this weekend?

05:29If he starts getting reps with the top offensive line, is there still time for him to start week one?

05:33It comes down to what the agreement is between the coaching staff and ownership

05:38If there if ownership is looking at this like dude does ownership have an agreement of hey Gerard

05:44It's your first time doing this

05:45we're gonna be a little bit hands-off with the quarterback position because you trust Alex van Pelt and

05:50Ben McAdoo and you guys are gonna make this decision all together and we're gonna be hands-off at least for the first month

05:57but if it comes down to there in the final preseason game and there's

06:02It's sudden a real push because it's so clear

06:06Drake may completes that pass to J Vaughn Baker or something equivalent to that

06:10He has a pass in the red zone that actually becomes a touchdown pass

06:14Things that this team hasn't seen that fans haven't seen very much of over the last two and a half years

06:20Then I think it starts having pressure from ownership. We have to fast-track this kid. Why are you so slow?

06:27Right plan you're I'm asking about the offensive line. You talked about the offensive line. You said he's not getting reps of the offensive line

06:32I'm asking if there's still time and he gets reps of the offensive line in the final preseason game

06:36Will that change your mind? You think there's still time he can start week one. I think there is

06:40I just don't think they will I don't think it comes down to what he shows you in the preseason game

06:44I think it comes down to whether they veer from the plan that they have

06:49Because I'm sure that they talked to ownership about the plan of how they're gonna develop this

06:53With them in conjunction with the front office and the first-time head coach

06:57But putting him with that old line that that would be that would speak to a change in the plan, wouldn't it?

07:02Yes, and I don't think that they will change. Okay, but I'm saying but it's too late

07:05But if they do that sets off alarm bells, right? Yeah, okay

07:08I have a whole separate take by the way about the beat writers if Drake May is starting week one

07:12I don't think they know what they're looking at down there quite frankly

07:15Like I I'm gonna start to question if they know what they're watching last year

07:18They were telling me how great Mac Jones looked and it's not a competition with him and zappy

07:22The the whole thing would if Drake May wins this competition, I'm gonna wonder I'm gonna start to wonder about that because all of it

07:28Was that it's not even close. It's not a competition

07:30We still have beat writers saying and we'll play some of them later on in the program, but dards one

07:34It's not a competition

07:36So like I'm gonna start to wonder if they really know what they're watching down there if May's out there week one

07:42There's different definitions of that argument that it's not a that it's not a competition

07:46I'm saying it's not a competition because I don't think they're giving Drake a real shot to have it be a competition

07:51I'm not saying it's not a competition because Drake's nowhere near Jacoby Brissett. I'm saying if it's a competition

07:57It's an extremely rigged one towards Jacoby Brissett starting week one because that's what they're comfortable with

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