If you don't think New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye will be able to rebound from the team's gutting Super Bowl loss to the Seattle Seahawks, just tak
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If you don't think New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye will be able to rebound from the team's gutting Super Bowl loss to the Seattle Seahawks, just take a look at Maye's sophomore season at Myers Park High School in Charlotte, North Carolina.
In 2018, Maye — who threw 50 touchdown passes that season — played against rival Butler on the road. He threw three first half interceptions in a 39-22 loss, the Mustangs' first of the year — "by far the worst game of his high school career," Maye's high school head coach Scott Chadwick told Patriots on SI.
Maye had thrown just a lone interception in the last six games he played in prior to that. The game was a complete 180 for the young star.
A month later, Myers Park and Butler squared off in the state playoffs, this time on the road. Butler was the third seed in the tournament, Maye's Mustangs were seeded six. Maye was locked in all week, Chadwick said, and was not going to lose that game.
Not at all.
"I'm telling you, he was absolutely not going to let his teammates down that night," Chadwick said. "And you could definitely see he had a different level of juice at practice that week. He was determined that the seniors, their careers weren't going to end because of him."
Myers Park won 33-8. Maye threw for a trio of touchdowns, completing more than 70% of his passes. Onto the quarterfinals Myers Park went, and the crushing regular season loss was out of sight.
"He was disappointed in how he played the first time we played them," Chadwick said. "But more than that, he felt like he had let his teammates down that night, and he certainly wasn't going to let some of their careers end."
