Jones & Keefe: Drake Maye is noticeably more comfortable

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00:00One thing that you can kind of tell even from afar,

00:02it helps with what he said yesterday, Drake May,

00:05but just watching him out on the field, it's his team.

00:08So I have a top guy.

00:10I have nothing to compare it to.

00:11I haven't been to training camp in a million years,

00:13but that's what it looks like.

00:15If you didn't know any better, you're like, it's this guy's team.

00:18The way the crowd reacts, the way he carries things around,

00:20the way he's first up through drills,

00:22the way he is interacting out there on the field.

00:25I mean, it's corny, but I do think there's something to it.

00:28That's one of the things we wanted to see.

00:30And I also, now there is a significant drop-off from him

00:33to the next couple of guys.

00:34And last year, Jacoby Brissett came in,

00:37and it was just sort of like a weird camp in that regard

00:40because it was like he was clearly told he was going to be the guy,

00:43but was only going to be the guy for so long.

00:46So Drake May, I think, found himself in sort of a weird spot.

00:50Like he's one of the youngest guys on the team,

00:52doesn't want to completely overstep.

00:54But if you're a quarterback, you are a de facto leader.

00:56But how much do you want to do when you're getting a lot of like

00:58second-team reps, some first-team reps?

01:01I don't know.

01:01It's just another kind of issue.

01:03Like, you know, there's a handful of teams around the league this year

01:05that are probably dealing with the same thing

01:07where it's like a quarterback battle,

01:09but is it a real quarterback battle

01:10or is it already sort of a sham job?

01:12You don't have any of that stuff this year.

01:14This is like, all right, it's Drake May's team.

01:16No question to ask whose team it is.

01:18Yeah, but I think he's already kind of accepted that,

01:21and then all the players are going in that direction.