New England Patriots
“As we all the time say since Day 1 in our family rising up, take no [expletive].”
Drake Maye is getting some cohesion forward of Tremendous Bowl LX.
In a video completed by the Gamers’ Tribune, Maye’s three older brothers — Luke, Cole, and Beau — every gave the Patriots’ quarterback a particular message forward of Sunday’s title tilt with the Seahawks.
“You’re going to play lights out, similar to you all the time have in huge video games,” Luke Maye stated.
The 100-second-long video featured a bunch of images and movies of Maye when he was a child. In one of many clips, Maye was pushing again one among his brothers as he agitated him.
“As we all the time say since Day 1 in our family rising up, take no [expletive],” one among Maye’s brothers stated.
Cole Maye credited his youngest brother for the work he’s put in over time to assist enable himself the chance to play in a Tremendous Bowl.
“This wasn’t luck and this was by no means promised, however right here you’re. After many hours grinding in your craft,” Cole stated.
Beau Maye, in the meantime, gave the impression to be in awe of what his little brother has achieved.
“All these instances we talked about rising up, you’re dwelling that dream and that’s so particular,” Beau Maye stated. “Take your time and simply actually take pleasure in this second. Didn’t come this far simply to come back this far. Massive-time gamers make big-time performs. It’s actually so simple as that.”
Whereas Maye is the youngest in his household, he isn’t the primary within the household to have some athletic success. His father, Mark, was additionally a standout quarterback at North Carolina. Luke and Beau performed for UNC’s males’s basketball staff. The truth is, Luke Maye hit a game-winning shot within the closing seconds of the Elite Eight in 2017 en path to the Tar Heels profitable the nationwide championship. Lastly, Cole Maye was part of the Florida baseball staff that gained the School World Collection in 2017.
With all of that athletic success, there’s a mantra the Maye household lives by, which they reiterated on the finish of their message to Drake.
“Maye Approach, child. It’s what we stay by. Be the chief, take management, and present no mercy,” Luke stated.
Maye has spoken fairly extremely of his brothers prior to now and the way they’ve been important to him in his development.
“I used to be all the time the little brother. Sort of all the time the runt of the household, and I nonetheless am,” Maye recently told ESPN’s Jeff Darlington. “I’ve obtained my brothers who’re 6-foot-7, 6-8, 6-9.
“They hold me humble.”
One of many methods the elder three Maye siblings stored the youngest Maye sibling humble got here proper after the Patriots chosen Drake Maye with the third general choose within the 2024 NFL Draft. In a video that went viral, every of Maye’s brothers jokingly trash-talked him.
Drake Maye obtained a kick out of that video, laughing and asking in the event that they had been severe. This time round, although, his brothers had been a bit extra severe as Maye is ready to play within the largest recreation of his life.
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