Drake Maye went out on a limb to call out the Patriots' offense after a poor practice. As Phil Perry writes, the rookie QB's message clearly resonated.
CHICAGO -- Drake Maye didn't like what he'd seen from the Patriots in their Wednesday practice. The offense was lacking in its attention to detail. There were mental errors. A snap was mishandled. An assignment was missed in pass-protection.
"Little things like that, just little detail, unfocused, and I think sometimes just getting into practice mode where you're just running plays and not really tuned in and trying to execute specific plays. You're trying to just get in a groove, like, 'Hey, we're just running plays out here just for nothing.' Just really trying to challenge those guys and challenge myself to take each play and know that when the game comes, this play is called, it matters.
Young players and veterans alike took Maye's words to heart, they explained in the visitor's locker room at Soldier Field. "I feel like he gave us energy. Just to have our leader, as a rookie, come and talk to us, it's like, 'OK, it's serious now.' It showed today that we took it from the practice field to the game field."
"I think this is part of the evolution of Drake, and this is something that we've discussed behind closed doors," head coach Jerod Mayo said Monday."I thought he did a good job, not only going out there and executing in practice, but also having those player-only meetings, and that's what we need from him. We need that.
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