Cool Link QBSchool: Drake Maye Super Bowl 60 Analysis

lancerman said:

No the score of the Texans game and the actual performance were not indicative of each other.

Maye fumbled 4 times, 2 led to turnovers and the other 2 hurt drives and had an interception. 9 out of 12 drives ended in a punt or turnover. Most of those drives ending between 12 and negative 19 yards. He was bailed out by Stroud being so awful.

Maye also had a mediocre Chargers game. 2 more fumbles and lost one and an interception.

His passer rating will always look nice cause he doesn’t get penalized for fumbles and holding onto the ball too long for taking stats so he limited incompletions and he’ll bust out a lot of stats on a good drive once or twice a game. But it’s the same story Rodgers had.

This was one of the all time bad playoff runs for a QB that made a SB.

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The fumbles were bad yes, probably only 2 that I'd put more on him. The interception was a hail mary at end of half! Totally irrelevant.

Against the Chargers we put up 380 yards on decent yards / play (5.7? something like that) and we got derailed by one bad fumble and one missed TD that cost us 10 points.

In either case, we did make plays and move the ball a bit in both those games against very tough defenses. Reasonable but not good performances against elite defenses. We've seen Brady win plenty of those types of games in the playoffs.

Against the Broncos and Seahawks we were literally dead in the water. It's a miracle we beat the Broncos with that performance and obviously we didn't come close against the Seahawks. I don't know what happened - Maye clearly lost some confidence / mentally shaken by either his prior turnovers and/or general lack of protection. Plus the injury probably didn't help although I don't think it was a major factor.

lancerman said:

No the score of the Texans game and the actual performance were not indicative of each other.

Maye fumbled 4 times, 2 led to turnovers and the other 2 hurt drives and had an interception. 9 out of 12 drives ended in a punt or turnover. Most of those drives ending between 12 and negative 19 yards. He was bailed out by Stroud being so awful.

Maye also had a mediocre Chargers game. 2 more fumbles and lost one and an interception.

His passer rating will always look nice cause he doesn’t get penalized for fumbles and holding onto the ball too long for taking stats so he limited incompletions and he’ll bust out a lot of stats on a good drive once or twice a game. But it’s the same story Rodgers had.

This was one of the all time bad playoff runs for a QB that made a SB.

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You are leaving out the fact that he was the only QB to throw 3 TD passes against that Texans defense.

It's kind of like why I always hated the Favre love. He would hurt you as much as help you. Maye in the playoffs was very much like that. And then in the SB, he plain old hurt you.

Next season will speak volumes as to what type of QB he is going to be.

KCSVEN said:

HIs summary at end is what frustrated me the most. The lack of hot reads off the blitz was mind boggling. Did they expect no blitzing and not plan? Is Drake supposed to check to a hot read and didn't? Normally receiver just adjusts and QB then does it to. No receivers ever hot route adjusted when blitz came from their side. WHY? So basic was extremely frustrating.

It's like they'd never seen a blitz before.

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This is why I say the coaching fell short. They were not adequately prepared for the Seattle defensive game plan.

upstater1 said:

Maybe they didn't plan for it since the Seahawks almost never blitz! And in the second half, they stopped blitzing.

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And that’s how Seattle outcoached the New England staff.

They broke tendency and NE was unprepared. Then when NE had halftime to adjust Seattle stopped doing what NE had adjusted to counter.

lancerman said:

I don't think you need to do much. One team was just flat out better in the offense vs defense match up. We can hyper analyze a lot, but we went against the best defense in the league and the offense couldn't get anything going because they could rush with 4 and cause pressure and when they blitzed it was just way too much.

If Seattle had an A game, they were going to beat our A game, we had an A game on defense and a C game on offense.

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We had a C game from our offense in the Super Bowl, and you just shrug and say no point in figuring out why?

SMH.

Ross12 said:

The Hooper play was so disappointing. Live, I thought it was either a bad miss by Maye or just guys not being on the same page. But now watching the breakdown, it is clear that Hooper basically just gave up and stopped running as soon as he got contacted at his break. He just kind started jogging. Then was shocked that the ball was thrown to him.

Like dude - it’s the ****ing Super Bowl - you are trying to come back, it’s still within reach, and you’re giving up on your route in basically 2 seconds? What a MF. Please don’t come back in 2026.

Oh I also watched all 1 hour 21 minutes too. Good stuff.

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Was he giving up on his route, or had he already given up on his QB?

If it’s the latter that’s not entirely on Hooper. His contract expires 5x is year so if it’s on him nbd, but if Drake had lost the huddle by then that’s a big deal for everybody still here.

Hyped said:

4.) Hate to say it, but he was seeing ghosts last night…along with our OL & receivers. Maye is not why we lost…it was a collective failure by the entire offense…McDaniels too.

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Yes. It was a collective team effort. They were not coached well enough and did not play well enough to win.

slash83 said:

Gotta give credit to Seattle. One of the lowest percentage blitzing teams, they changed it up caughtNE off guard with the blitzes that came early and often. Frustrating NE didn’t or couldn’t adjust, Josh was out coached.

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Exactly. Patriots were unprepared. Players were not placed in position to be successful.

UGAPatsfan said:

It IS just good business to draft T, G every year. O line is too important.

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Definitely true.

But there’s a difference between drafting to fix a problem you have today, and drafting to fill a need two or three years from now. If you’re drafting to fix a problem you have now you need someone who can play right away, with well developed skills. If you’re drafting to fill the pipeline you can draft a prospect who has the athletic traits even if the skills are still rough and need to be developed.

I think mostly our OL is more the latter. Certainly that’s the case for the right side. We probably have a couple of years to develop or find a replacement for Onwenu at RG, and maybe a year or even two for RT Morgan Moses.

On the left side Will Campbell has at least the coming year to establish himself as the permanent solution at LT. LG is the biggest question, depending on whether Wilson slides over to replace Bradbury at center. If Wilson takes over at C there will be a need to find a new LG, with Ben Brown as one possibility. If not Brown it’s an open question whether any other player under contract (Wallace?) will be a realistic candidate, or if we need to go looking in FA or in the draft.

I think the best path forward would be to move Wilson to C and look for a good LG to replace him, keeping Brown to back up all the IOL positions. Or maybe Wallace can finally find a home at LG?

I would love an analysis of % of drop backs Maye made the right read.

I would put it at about 3 of 40+

So Lazar on catch 22 basically said McDaniels got owned by McDonald, yeah Drake could’ve been better but Josh did him zero favors and was pretty much abysmal.

Betterthanmost said:

I managed to watch the game again( all 22s). By god, Maye's head was not in this game. He was dialed into somewhere else. Only thing I can think of is that he is badly hurt and that got into his head and wanted to just get out of there. He could have moved the chains by looking for easy throws. They were there. Very sad that his skills position players will take a beating for his poor poor decision making or lack of vision or whatever was wrong with him.

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Maye did not look comfortable during the national anthem.

Baldinger commented on twitter that SEA ran a S blitz with 6 and that NE never called Max Protect. I believe that is on Maye to make that read and call. The NE WRs also ran long routes in lieu of getting open quick because Maye was under duress. The result of that play was a TD for the SEA D which sealed the loss for NE.

slash83 said:

So Lazar on catch 22 basically said McDaniels got owned by McDonald, yeah Drake could’ve been better but Josh did him zero favors and was pretty much abysmal.

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Which is bizarre because everyone on the planet knew what was coming.

I asked in another thread, but did anyone notice if NE had Maye roll out to buy time?

n1997y said:

We had a C game from our offense in the Super Bowl, and you just shrug and say no point in figuring out why?

SMH.

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We know why. They were outmatched talent wise in the trenches and the QB leaned into his worst traits

lancerman said:

We know why. They were outmatched talent wise in the trenches and the QB leaned into his worst traits

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And there were nagging injuries to some key players. And the OC decided not to help protect his QB with more quick game. And the HC decided not to sub in healthier linemen.

A lot of things went wrong this game.

KCSVEN said:

HIs summary at end is what frustrated me the most. The lack of hot reads off the blitz was mind boggling. Did they expect no blitzing and not plan? Is Drake supposed to check to a hot read and didn't? Normally receiver just adjusts and QB then does it to. No receivers ever hot route adjusted when blitz came from their side. WHY? So basic was extremely frustrating.

It's like they'd never seen a blitz before.

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This boggled my mind even during the SB. I’m no coach, but even I wondered why there were no hot reads by Maye or the WRs during the entire game. Seattle would send a DB and our receiver would run straight through the vacated area! I had thought that was a basic adjustment.

Low floor high ceiling. We were so so spoiled by Brady’s high floor.

Let’s bring up his floor this offseason. For instance those short accurate quick little zippy throws (the Brady specials,the ones Stafford makes all day and people here were critical of for God knows why)? He needs to master that. He needs to become best friends with Checkdown Charlie.

Lots of other things he needs to work on but that’s in top five. He’s a great qb. What a great learning experience he had. This didn’t “ruin” him he isn’t a ****ing avocado.

We will be back.