Jones & Keefe: What can we expect from Drake Maye?

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00:00But the bar is so low overall, the five weeks that we've seen this offense perform,

00:04that if they score two offensive touchdowns, it's going to look like a tsunami of points.

00:09You're going to be like, oh my God, what is this team?

00:11And like the Chiefs when the Holmes first got in there is how it's going to feel.

00:14Yeah.

00:14And also, again, I think you have to be prepared for mistakes and maybe a couple

00:19like head-scratching plays, but it can't be too many of them.

00:22It can't be throwing the ball across your body or trying to avoid a sack,

00:28rather than just taking a sack, trying to make a play and throwing it right to a linebacker.

00:33Like it's going to be, you can't have that stuff, even though it is your debut.

00:38But I think the bar is low enough where if he scores a couple of touchdowns,

00:40or he and the offense score a couple of touchdowns,

00:43you're going to look like, all right, that's a great place to start for this team.

00:46Yeah.

00:46We said yesterday, 17 points, a couple of offensive touchdowns, you're putting together

00:52some drives where you're not going three and out, you're looking functional.

00:55You don't want those head-scratching plays.

00:57I mean, I agree with that.

00:59Further along, I'd like to see some throws down the field.

01:03I mean, this offense just has no throws down the field.

01:05Yeah, that'd be good.

01:06You know, and I don't even mean 50-yard bombs.

01:08I'm talking that 15 to 20-yard range where you didn't really see that consistently with Brissette.

01:15You would see short throws.

01:17You would see easy throws.

01:18Maybe they'd mix in the deep shot to Polk against the Niners.

01:22But that's really more what I'm talking about.

01:23That deep to intermediate range that I don't feel like they're testing right now.

01:27I think that's an area of the playbook that you can open up.

01:31And yeah, there's a risk for some turnovers.

01:33He probably does turn it over this weekend.

01:35You don't want a 3-4 pick game.

01:37You're Will Levis.

01:38Yeah, no, right.

01:39You know, I heard the Greg Hill Show talking about this this morning.

01:42You're Zach Wilson in some of those starts.

01:44Like, you don't want that.

01:45The Nathan Peterman.

01:46Yeah, definitely not that.

01:48But from Peterman to Mahomes, there's a big gap there in the middle of how you can play.

01:52But I am willing to take that risk of like, let's launch it down the field a little bit.

01:55It doesn't have to be 50-plus yard throws.

01:57But that 15-20 yard range, they are not testing.

02:00And you need to do that in today's NFL.

02:03I also want to see him run.

02:05And I think that's an element of the playbook that should be opened up.

02:10I would hope that Alex Van Pelt leans on that a little bit this week.

02:13You asked me yesterday, do I expect to sign runs?

02:15I do.

02:16Yeah.

02:16You know, third and shorts, red zone.

02:18Like, I don't expect to just do it on first and ten.

02:21But if you need to go pick up some yards, I think he's a catalyst to be able to do that.

02:26Or at least give the defenses some different looks.

02:29So they're not loading up on Ramondre Stevenson.

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