Quick Drake Maye comment...

[Tony D'Amato]

He played 3 of the best defenses in the nfl. 2 in horrible weather.

 

[murksiderock]

One thing I really hate regardless of the sport is how people try and use post season failures to somehow negate what was done in the regular season.

Did drake maye have a bad post season? Yes

Did Drake Maye have an amazing regular season? Yes

Both things can be simultaneously true.

The post season doesn't equal the regular season and people should be smart enough to know that. Drake Maye finished runner up for MVP and was a 2nd team all pro because he was great during the regular season.

The only QBs better than Drake Maye rn are Mahomes, Lamar, Josh Allen, Stafford and maybe Joe Burrow and I said maybe Joe Burrow because he hasn't done shyt for the past few post seasons. For the 2025 REGULAR SEASON Drake Maye was the 2nd best qb in the league. His post season play doesn't change that

Darnold is a better player than Drake. Hurts, Goff, Dak, Herbert, Love are also better quarterbacks than Maye.

He had a great regular season with not just a last place schedule, it was the easiest schedule in The League. Doesn't change that he still played well, but it contextualizes why he played well. Stafford showed multiple times this year that an elite QB could dice up Seattle (even in a loss). For a fact if Allen, Mahomes, Lamar, Burrow ran into Seattle, they would look more like Stafford did vs Seattle, than Maye.

He's not an elite quarterback. He's an ascending Y2 quarterback with a bright future ahead of him.

 

[Turk]

Darnold is a better player than Drake. Hurts, Goff, Dak, Herbert, Love are also better quarterbacks than Maye.

You've got to be trolling me cuz ain't no way

Jordan Love has won 1 playoff game during his entire career. Herbert hasn't even won 1 playoff game. Dak is going to be 33 this year and hasn't won a playoff game in YEARS. Sam Darnold was trash the majority of his career until the past two seasons. Jalen Hurts isn't a better QB than Drake Maye. He's been clutch in big moments and the superbowl and is an elite winner but in terms of pure QBing. In no way shape or form is he a better QB than Drake Maye. Jared Goff has had superior offensive talent in LA and Detroit and choked in big games like Drake Maye so idk what he's done to be considered better than him at this current moment and time. If you want to say longevity, I guess.

He had a great regular season with not just a last place schedule, it was the easiest schedule in The League. Doesn't change that he still played well, but it contextualizes why he played well. Stafford showed multiple times this year that an elite QB could dice up Seattle (even in a loss). For a fact if Allen, Mahomes, Lamar, Burrow ran into Seattle, they would look more like Stafford did vs Seattle, than Maye.

He's not an elite quarterback. He's an ascending Y2 quarterback with a bright future ahead of him.

Most recent NFL QB MVP's have had easy schedules, but this wasn't a talking point until this year for whatever reason



The Patriots are going to have a tough schedule next year so hopefully this narrative will be buried by then. Burrow hasn't even been able to make the playoffs in 3 years, why are you including him in these scenarios? Lamar Jackson has underperformed during his playoff career. How in the world would he carve up Seattle's defense?

 

[broller]

People forget Patrick Mahomes 1st superbowl, He was running for his life. Put up 9 points 0TD 2 INTs (With Kelce/ Tyreek hill). It happens, Its on Drake Maye to learn from this and get better. Patriots Need to give him some weapons as well.

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That was his second SB...dogg, your facts ain't been facts.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

The thread that should be made is

Which one matters most, dope quarterback/mediocre team or mediocre quarterback/ dope team?

Cause it seems to me that we will have more teams with mediocre quarterbacks making it now. All you really have to do as a quarterback is be on fire a couple games out the year by spamming tds to one player, running like a mf getting touchdowns that way, letting the kicker kick like 5 plus field goals, or letting your running back do the dirty work. If your quarterback has to be all world only to lose the game in the end by a field goal then how tf is that going to work? This current nfl as it’s constructed right now is going to be absolutely interesting.

 

[No1]

Lotta talk this postseason crowned him as if he was already that dude. All I'll say is, as much as the regular season showed his growth as a Y2 quarterback, the playoffs showed just how far he needs to go.

Which isn't an indictment because again he's only played two years. My only issue is how people spoke about him as if he already belongs in the elite category. As much as Darnold throws 50/50 passes, he's simply a more consistent decision maker than Maye is at this stage, and falt out better.

Maye has a bright future. He's not That Guy yet.

DArnold is not a more “consistent decision maker.” Give him Maye’s arm injury and offensive line and weapons and what are we talking about? Maye played all the best defenses in the NFL this playoffs with his offensive line getting cooked and without a number 1 or 2 WR. He will be fine. People pretending that the sky isn’t the limit are just being full of shyt. The kid had a bad playoffs / the entire offense did. He will get better.

 

[No1]

Nix healthy he’s not playing tonight

He is better than Nix.

 

[No1]

Campbell at LT was getting worked all night, and honestly most of the playoffs. You could see it wearing on Drake as the rounds went on—his reads sped up and he started anticipating pressure that wasn’t always there. Maye is athletic, but he’s not Lamar or Caleb-level athletic, so he’s not just going to escape everything. On top of that, LG Wilson struggled pretty much the entire postseason too. Hard to believe the Pats made the SB with two rookies on the left side of the OL playing like that.

As for Maye himself, he’s always hunting the big play. He’s got to learn to take the checkdown and keep the chains moving. There were multiple 3rd downs where guys were open underneath for a first, and his eyes stayed downfield. It reminds me of early-career Peyton in the playoffs, when the Pats would take away the deep stuff and the Colts’ offense would stall (not saying Drake is Peyton). Once Peyton learned to live with checkdowns, he started beating the Pats. Brady built a GOAT career off taking what the defense gave him. That’s a step Maye still needs to take.

I also think he didn’t want to throw into the tight windows of the zone.

 

[feelosofer]

Drake May may not be as good as the media says he is but let's not act like Seattle hasn't been putting most teams in a blender all season. Dude made the SB in year two. If he can continue to learn and improve he will be a very good QB. Also he has rookie tackles starting.

 

[Copy Ninja]

I also think he didn’t want to throw into the tight windows of the zone.

I watched some breakdown videos from the all-22 and there were a lot of open receivers underneath that Maye missed. He was hitting these guys in the regular season. My only assumption is that his pre-snap reads fooled him because he didnt look at those underneath routes.

 

[Samori Toure]

Drake May may not be as good as the media says he is but let's not act like Seattle hasn't been putting most teams in a blender all season. Dude made the SB in year two. If he can continue to learn and improve he will be a very good QB. Also he has rookie tackles starting.

He also struggled against the Chargers, Texans and Broncos, before his struggles against the Seahawks. He was 70 for 120 (58%) 4 interceptions, 8 fumbles (5 were lost).

He was clearly a product of the schedule that he had played in the regular season, where the average defenses he played against in the regular season was 20th.

 

[Supa]

People forget Patrick Mahomes 1st superbowl, He was running for his life. Put up 9 points 0TD 2 INTs (With Kelce/ Tyreek hill). It happens, Its on Drake Maye to learn from this and get better. Patriots Need to give him some weapons as well.

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He won his first Super Bowl and you're conveniently leaving out the fact that they had 4 starters on the O Line who didn't play in the Tampa Super Bowl due to injury.

No QB is going to play well in that situation.

This isn't even remotely comparable. Maye just got exposed as the product of facing bad defenses.

 

[EzekelRAGE]

Called his shot and mentioned how Drake's inexperience led to the int, even compares him to Stafford. Sheds light on why the Rams gives Seahawks issues.

 

[Bboystyle]

Yall need to stop categorizing QBs for team wins and losses..Love had 300+ yards and 4 TDs and still lost due to a p*ssy ass coach, shytty kicker, and shytty defense. Theres a difference between a QB playing good and losing and a QB playing bad and losing or even winning.

Drake played Avg this playoff run but thats all they needed to make the SB, nothing wrong with that. Then he played like shyt due to SEA defense. It happens. It has happened to greats like Brady, Rodgers, Mahomes, ect. Doesnt mean Maye is trash or cant win big games, it means his team has holes that need too be filled in order for them to win.

When will u nikkas learn the NFL is the ultimate team sport. U can have the greates QB ever and still cant win without a good o-line, defense, and/or coach. Hell QBs even won and loss due to kickers...(fukk u McManus)

 

[Spliff]

Can’t believe Stafford nearly lost MVP to this dude.

shyt should’ve never been close.