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When Maye was drafted I remember thinking his over under on starting would be thanksgiving.

I’m more concerned with how he’s carrying himself.

Ideally Brissett can play well enough to let the young guys develop, but Maye comes in in December and looks great and the pats end up with a top five pick next year.
 
Grogan said:
Well at least they are being balanced, Thursday and today it seems that Maye has bounced back. I don’t mind it so long as they are reporting the good as eagerly as the bad. We all knew Maye was going to have ups and downs and it seems like that’s what’s happening. It’s also only 8 practices in, no need to panic, and with the exception of tollin Volin the rest seem to be reporting it fairly.
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Yeah, no surprise here, either.
 
spacecrime said:
Yeah, no surprise here, either.
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Leave it to Trolling Volin to start the National media chant that Maye has been a bust. Not a single reputable beat reporter is reporting anything close.
 
Grogan said:
Leave it to Trolling Volin to start the National media chant that Maye has been a bust. Not a single reputable beat reporter is reporting anything close.
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I guess the message is that you should never consider being reasonable when you can troll everybody with a hot take that gets Patriots fans
riled up.

That is, If they are dopes. Drake turns 22 the end of this month. If Volin was a responsible guy he'd mention that Brady was 24 with a full season of
mental reps under his belt before he got his shot. And it took him years to develop his deep ball to the point where people started laying off
him for dinking and dunking all the time.

But we're all supposed to expect Drake's going to take the league by storm instantly. Sure, throw him in there and Volin would switch takes and
blame Mayo for playing him too soon. I'm not even slightly fazed by what some of these guys write. As of tomorrow, Maye will have been in padded
practices for one week. It's kind of comical watching the Boston media do their monkey dance.

Fuck Ben Volin.
 
I think another factor is that Brissett is a professional, and he’s going to be able to be competent while this offensive line gets used to the new personnel and changes, and while the rookie receivers learn. Even if Maye looks amazing, Brissett has earned the right to play for at least half a season, and audition for his next job. Provided he doesn’t totally fall apart.
The offense still has tons of holes that can’t be filled in one offseason. I’m fine with letting Maye watch a vet from the bench until thanksgiving ish.
 
If we can bring in one competent OT capable of playing average football we can possibly have a functional Offense in 2024. I think we can find one
from the current roster. The starting interior OL is very capable now barring injury, although i still think Onwenu will end up back at RT before long. It's not
really fair to him, but it just makes sense much in the same way it did last season when they finally realized they had no choice.

I'm still looking, but Detroit has a couple of guys that they aren't going to be able to keep, to cite one example.

With 31 teams all having to cut down there should easily be somebody we can land that can upgrade the OL. That HAS to be the plan.
 
I tend to agree. The next franchise LT is coming in the '25 draft, especially if the receivers pan out and someone separate and becomes really, really good.
 
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People who didn't watch him in College and hear the southern accent might assume that Drake is Cousin Goober who runs if his first option is covered, because
he's a "dumb redneck"*, but I have seen many of examples of him going through his options and showing high processing ability.

He is going to be a guy that does not make a lot of poor decision throws once he gets a little seasoning, but he just hasn't had as many reps
as we'd prefer yet. Mac Jones might have had a 4.0 at Bama, but Maye will be, by far, the smarter QB, imo.

* note that this is certainly not the majority view of Pats fans in any way, but I have heard that sort of thing already and Massholes have a tendency
to think we ah way smahtah than most folks.
 
Hawg73 said:
People who didn't watch him in College and hear the southern accent might assume that Drake is Cousin Goober who runs if his first option is covered, because
he's a "dumb redneck"*, but I have seen many of examples of him going through his options and showing high processing ability.

He is going to be a guy that does not make a lot of poor decision throws once he gets a little seasoning, but he just hasn't had as many reps
as we'd prefer yet. Mac Jones might have had a 4.0 at Bama, but Maye will be, by far, the smarter QB, imo.

* note that this is certainly not the majority view of Pats fans in any way, but I have heard that sort of thing already and Massholes have a tendency
to think we ah way smahtah than most folks.
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I am 10000 percent with you. I was anti Mac after his first season and for good reason. I was all for "tanking" last year to get a high draft pick and as time went on I was sold on Maye over Daniels and maybe even Williams due to multiple things. So far I think I am 2-2 on those things and couldn't be happier with Maye. Now, I reserve the right to shit on him if he shows that he sucks but from the reporting that I have heard, he is right on schedule.

He should be running with the 1s a lot more and wonder where he gets the reps during the season to improve. The backup doesn't get many if any 1st team reps during the season.
 
Roberto71 said:
I wonder will we actually land Aiyuk??
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Doubtful and quite frankly I don't want them to. He's NOT a number 1 and I like what I have been hearing from camp so far. So, let those guys show what they have and then attack next offseason if you want to still do it.
 
Roberto71 said:
I wonder will we actually land Aiyuk??
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I though there was a chance but the latest report is that the Steelers are back in it and that no where he wants to go . I think he’s using Cleveland and the Pats to get the Steelers or Washington to up their offer. Otherwise this would be done by now, the 49ers agreed last night to the compensation from both teams, and you would think that both teams would have given their best contract offers by now, so I think he’s just playing them both right now.
 
ViperGTS said:
Doubtful and quite frankly I don't want them to. He's NOT a number 1 and I like what I have been hearing from camp so far. So, let those guys show what they have and then attack next offseason if you want to still do it.
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We have like three other guys with very similar size and measurables on the team, two being rookies that don't seem lost in camp....trading for a guy that tops out as a 2 doesn't seem to make sense.
 
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