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SVN · Feb 9, 2026

Tom wouldve made the game closer . He has had bad games but by the 4th Q comes he still keeps the team in t the game. Most importantly, knowing he doesnt run at all , he wouldve resorted to the quick passing game . This is something Maye needs to get into. Cant live on the explosives all the time. Sometimes thousand paper cuts is what we need. Also we didnt have a kevin faulk or james white yesterday. Maye held on to the ball too long at times .Even boomer esiason said it today. maye needs to learn to put 52 mins behind and play the last 8 mins. Brady was very good with that. Maye was flustered early and never recovered. His 4th Q int was the signature of his day and his style.

Lagaffe_07 · Feb 9, 2026

p8ryts said:
Which Williams are you referring to?

Obviously not the one who is a top 2 players on defense

mgteich · Feb 9, 2026

PatsFan2 said:
Let's' hope Campbell is not a Bust for a #4 overall that would hurt. Wilson was a Third Rounder he can go either way.

Wilson was reasonable as a rookie, given that he was a 3rd rounder who had never played LG.

He basically lost a year. He can now move to center to backup and eventually replace Bradbury.

n1997y · Feb 9, 2026

Ross12 said:
That was Brady's key trait, but I don't know if he was that amazing at it in his first season starting. He was good, but he was raw.

But he didn’t shatter under pressure. I mean the pressure of high expectations in an important game, not just blitzing linemen running free. Maye faced both last night, and folded like a wet Kleenex. Brady wouldn’t have.

p8ryts · Feb 9, 2026

Lagaffe_07 said:
Obviously not the one who is a top 2 players on defense

I think he will have a jump next year.

40yrpatsfan · Feb 9, 2026

Brady had similar games and results as last night, against the Giants in the 2008 SB and at Denver in the 2013 AFCC game. He’d had many more years experience too. He would’ve been about the same as Drake last night. Tom would have made more short completions, but it would have been offset by his lack of mobility.

Ross12 · Feb 10, 2026

n1997y said:
But he didn’t shatter under pressure. I mean the pressure of high expectations in an important game, not just blitzing linemen running free. Maye faced both last night, and folded like a wet Kleenex. Brady wouldn’t have.

Brady absolutely had games where he folded under high pressure, especially up the middle.

Hugepatsfan · Feb 10, 2026

I'm not sure how much this is a factor but Brady played at Michigan whereas Maye played at UNC. Brady played in higher profile games in college. He played against SEC schools in bowl games. Drake Maye played in the Duke's Mayo Bowl. He didn't really get "big game experience" in college and since we sucked last year and had such an uncompelling schedule this year it's not like he played a ton of marquee matchups in the NFL either. I do wonder a little bit of the bright lights could have spooked him a bit.

n1997y · Feb 10, 2026

Lagaffe_07 said:
I don’t know if the result would have changed but Maye was looking scared last night. He played scared. Brady wouldn’t have played scared.

Brady always had that confidence in himself.

Maye totally lost his confidence during those playoffs. Maye was so good in the regular season to not repeat the same mistakes often. In the playoffs he kept making the same mistakes over and over again.

I hoped Vrabel and Josh would be able to get Maye his mojo back in those two weeks. Unfortunately it didn’t happen. Josh called the game like his QB was a liability.

Josh always calls the game with the first priority being to not do anything to lose it.

I think both Vrabes and McD spent the playoffs coaching Drake to play safe and avoid the big mistakes, and it backfired by making him fearful and tentative.

n1997y · Feb 10, 2026

n1997y said:
But he didn’t shatter under pressure. I mean the pressure of high expectations in an important game, not just blitzing linemen running free. Maye faced both last night, and folded like a wet Kleenex. Brady wouldn’t have.

Ross12 said:
Brady absolutely had games where he folded under high pressure, especially up the middle.

As I said, I was talking primarily about the psychological pressure of expectations in a big game, not pash rush. I used bold type in the above quote to help you see it this time.

And among the consequences Drake showed was throwing the ball wildly even without pass rushers in his face. He missed throws with pash rush pressuring him and he missed throws when they weren’t, so it’s not really clear he was inaccurate because of the rush. He’s been playing like he was spooked all through the playoffs. I think he was being coached to avoid mistakes and it backfired and made him fearful and focused on what could go wrong, so that’s what he manifested in his game.

Ross12 · Feb 10, 2026

n1997y said:
As I said, I was talking primarily about the psychological pressure of expectations in a big game, not pash rush. I used bold type in the above quote to help you see it this time.

And among the consequences Drake showed was throwing the ball wildly even without pass rushers in his face. He missed throws with pash rush pressuring him and he missed throws when they weren’t, so it’s not really clear he was inaccurate because of the rush. He’s been playing like he was spooked all through the playoffs. I think he was being coached to avoid mistakes and it backfired and made him fearful and focused on what could go wrong, so that’s what he manifested in his game.

Apologies if I misread this, I think I might have been half awake lol

1960Pats · Feb 10, 2026

The Pats have run a delayed draw type play that has been a 4 or 5 yard loss most of the time. Maye delays so long that the DL are in the backfield when the RB is getting the ball. Time to scrap that one.

XLIX · Feb 10, 2026

We didn’t need Brady. We needed that F’ING OFFSIDES CALL

p8ryts · Feb 10, 2026

Ross12 said:
Brady absolutely had games where he folded under high pressure, especially up the middle.

I remember the Ravens playoff game; we fell behind by 3 scores in the first quarter and Brady looked like he just gave up in that quarter.

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