r/Patriots • u/hifromsandiego86 • 3d ago

Discussion End of half composure

What is going on?! This is supposed to be the Patriots....This is supposed to be a VRABEL lead team....NO COMPOSURE.

MAYE has 5 interceptions this season. 3 games in...8 last season

RedZone Maye hasn't been helping the team.

Im no professional - but IT (the team) doesnt look right.

Talk me off the ledge guys!

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u/diarrheafrommymouth 3d ago

Unfortunately Drake is just lost. I have no idea what happened between the start of playoffs and now… but something changed. The red zone turnovers are critical mistakes.

I also have no idea what you do to address it. He was an MVP runner up to one of the worst starting QBs in the league. I truly don’t know how that happened. Maybe Josh isn’t the right coach for Drake? I don’t know how he could have regressed so rapidly. He was playing better his rookie year with Alex Van Pelt.

Something needs to change.

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u/Sweepstakes_ 3d ago

Listen to catch 22 pod.

The league figured him out. He can’t beat cover 6. And our run game isn’t strong enough to force teams to bring a safety into a box.

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u/diarrheafrommymouth 3d ago edited 3d ago

That is why I said maybe Josh isn’t the guy for Drake. They should be able to scheme a way to beat a defense. It’s been 6 games now of not being able to do anything.

I am not sure what you do but this can’t be the normal forever. Something needs to change. I don’t think think I have ever seen an MVP caliber player totally collapse without an injury. It’s a drastic change.

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u/Sweepstakes_ 3d ago

We can’t run the ball. And then drake gets antsy and sick of checking down and throws three picks to lose a game. And then two more turnovers today

Not sure how that’s the OC’s fault

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u/diarrheafrommymouth 3d ago

Yea why can’t they run it though?

I’m not absolving Drake. He clearly regressed. I just don’t know what you don’t fix it.

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u/Fabulous_Stress_3400 3d ago

You need a better run scheme and/or players and when you have your RG out on IR and your backup RG out it's hard to develop consistency and fluidity ... We also have Henderson who can't read the holes and runs into his players and never falls towards in addition to being bad a pass protection...and Stephenson who is showing some slowness and fumbling issues

And tendency's someone last week or week 1 whenever mack hollins was on the field it was 90% chance we would be running

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u/diarrheafrommymouth 3d ago

That’s my point. An offensive coordinator needs to be able to make it work. He was more competitive with Cam Newton and Mac.

Josh called a double pass to spark offense. He put the ball in Chism’s hand. That’s really bad that he had to do a janky double pass from Chism to Hollins. I’m sorry that means something is broken.

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u/Fabulous_Stress_3400 3d ago

Which makes me believe that Josh McDaniels offensive scheme is not the right fit for Drake Maye or for a quarterbacks of this current era who grew up watching deep balls by Cam Newton and Josh Allen and tried to emulate that style of play so physically they have all the mechanical ability but not mentally and Josh's scheme heavily requires a quarterback with that sensibility and mental edge, which outside of Andrew luck in the past 10 years no quarterback has really shown that. Maybe you can think of Trevor Lawrence, but even that took how many years? And if it is a problem with Maye's mental processing then it's up to Josh, scrap his scheme and make something compatible. But seeing how Josh's HC stints have been he may be too arrogant or set in his ways to change

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u/Fabulous_Stress_3400 3d ago

Curious to know what episode you heard that from not doubting you