{"id":704445,"date":"2026-06-14T23:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T23:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/704445\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T23:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T23:54:09","slug":"patriots-hope-to-weaponize-drake-mayes-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/704445\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots hope to “weaponize” Drake Maye’s mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

As quarterback Drake Maye prepares for his second season in the Josh McDaniels offense, McDaniels knows Maye is in a much better spot<\/a> than he was a year ago. But there\u2019s still plenty of room to grow.<\/p>\n

This time around, they\u2019re focusing on better preparing him for game scenarios by \u201cweaponizing\u201d his mind.<\/p>\n

As explained by Mike Reiss of ESPN in his weekly look at all things Pats, he explains that, during offseason practices, McDaniels would at times hurry Maye to the line of scrimmage but without giving him a play call<\/a>. The purpose was to get Maye to solve problems on his own.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen we can go into the meeting room and talk about what he was thinking, why he was thinking,\u201d quarterbacks coach Ashton Grant said, per Reiss. \u201cIf it was a great answer, you give him a pat on the back. If it\u2019s something you might want to tweak or adjust, we talk about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s easy to say \u2018solve the problems,\u2019 but if you never let him practice solving problems, then you\u2019re just talking to a cement wall. . . . We\u2019re trying to weaponize Drake\u2019s mind. As opposed to be just throwers of the football, we want them to be operators of the offense.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the challenge for every quarterback. Understanding based on the pre-snap look what will, or won\u2019t be, available \u2014 and making a decision accordingly.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s something that requires reps in games. The Patriots are trying to give Maye reps in practice in anticipation of the reality that those issues will arise in games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As quarterback Drake Maye prepares for his second season in the Josh McDaniels offense, McDaniels knows Maye is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-704445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}