FOXBORO — Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel had a particular recreation ball ready for one of the best performer in Sunday’s win over the Jets.
That simply occurred to be quarterback Drake Maye, who, in accordance with some metrics, had one of many greatest single-game performances in NFL historical past, finishing 19-of-21 passes for 256 yards and 5 touchdowns in simply 2.5 quarters.
“It was only a fairly particular efficiency. It’s no secret how I really feel about Drake,” Vrabel mentioned Monday morning. “That was a particular recreation ball. That was one which I had constructed that had lots of tape and paper, and I did arts and crafts on it. That was all our street wins on the ball that I had taped on there. So, he higher carry it in right here, and he higher put it within the quarterback room as a result of I put lots of effort and time into that factor.
“Yeah, once we received three video games in a row on the street, these three weeks, Stick (equpment supervisor Preston Rogers) had achieved a pleasant recreation ball that had these three video games on there, and so then I went again and form of added on all the opposite ones. I printed them off and put them on there. So, I’d mentioned the night time earlier than, whoever was the participant to achieve, they obtained this particular recreation ball. So, it’s form of becoming that Drake had the efficiency that he had. There have been lots of different actually good performances and lots of guys that helped us contribute, however actually the day that he had and what he’s achieved to date for us. So, we’ll want lots of these efforts from him to proceed. You guys know that, and I anticipate that to occur.”
Maye tied the report for QBR in a single recreation with a 99.8 (out of 100). Solely six quarterbacks, because the metric was developed in 2006, have had a 99.8 QBR in a single recreation.
Maye leads the league with a 76.5 QBR this season.
