Barth: Drake Maye looked comfortable at Tuesday’s Patriots practice
Alex Barth of 985thesportshub.com joined Felger and Mazz on Tuesday to discuss the latest with New England Patriots training camp. Barth said that he thought rookie quarterback Drake Maye looked “comfortable” in Tuesday’s practice.
Felger: How did Drake Maye look today? On the station I think we had a couple of sports-gasms over a couple of his throws, but how did he look today overall?
Alex Barth: I thought he looked good. The word I kept going back to was “comfortable”. It was the first day he’s really looked comfortable. I felt like he was able to get in a rhythm. There’s a few reasons for that….one, he had a lot more time to throw. They moved the offensive lines around a little bit and he had better protection today, especially in the red zone. He was just seeing the field really well, he was delivering the ball on time, and he was putting it in the right spot. He did struggle at the end of practice in a one minute drill kind of thing. He went three and out, but before that I was ready to say was his best practice at camp.
Jim Murray: So I had seen that this two-minute drill, one minute drill, whatever you want to call it was kind of ugly. Was it all on him? Were there drops? What was the issue there?
Alex Barth: It was a little bit of both. So there was one where it was an interception, he tried to hit Javon Baker on an out route in a tight window, and they’re on the opposite side of the field so it was a little tough to tell if the ball hit off Baker’s hand or if the defender got a hand on it, it popped right up in the air and Marcellas Dial was able to pick it off. I don’t question the throw so much as I questioned the decision. There was another play where they couldn’t get the snap off. It looked like the offensive line was miscommunicating, which I don’t know that Maye was chiefly at fault for that but anytime you don’t get the snap off obviously the quarterbacks are part of it. He did miss a couple throws too. There was a lot going on I guess would be the best way to say it.
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