FOXBORO — The Patriots should be keen to make changes after Sunday’s 20-13 loss to the Raiders, and a kind of is perhaps lessening Drake Maye’s workload.
Head coach Mike Vrabel was requested Monday about his quarterback and if there’s too much on Maye’s plate.
“I believe now we have to judge that,” Vrabel stated. “Now we have to search out out, is there one thing there or we’ve simply obtained to determine what our guys do greatest and try this. As a result of when you try this, then it’s important to be actually good, versus attempting to scheme or get into the proper state of affairs. Once more, we simply be sure that we’re giving him solutions by attempting to not give him an excessive amount of. I believe that’s at all times the stability and the nice line.”
Maye was 30-of-46 for 287 yards with one landing and one interception within the Week 1 loss to the Raiders. Maye struggled within the second half and when the Raiders had been bringing stress.
Vrabel stated Monday morning on WEEI’s “The Greg Hill Present” that Maye must be “exact, not excellent.”
“I believe that he desires to be, at occasions, excellent, and [we] must get previous that,” Vrabel stated. “All of us must get previous that. … In case you make a mistake, it’s the response that it’s important to the error that everyone sees. After which they’re like, ‘Oh wow, that was a mistake.’ Now we have to scrub our reactions up. Our responses must be a lot better. After which stepping into the stream, since you see actually good timing and precision and accuracy, after which we see another misses.”
Vrabel expounded on that Monday afternoon in a press convention.
“I believe in all the pieces that we do, we at all times need to be aggressive and do it the proper means. However then, there simply can’t be any form of block that retains us from simply going and enjoying the sport and realizing that it’s not going to look nice at occasions, but it surely’s going to be making a play. … I don’t say that by going rogue. There’s a scheme to it, however then all through the course of the sport, anyone makes a play.”
Vrabel additionally complimented Maye’s decision-making and accuracy however acknowledged there have been some “misses.”
Because the third total choose within the 2024 NFL Draft, Maye was anticipated to take a big second-year leap in 2025. There’s nonetheless time for that to occur, however he didn’t present important progress in Week 1 of his second season.
