Back in November, New England Patriots gamers and franchise icons compared Drake Maye to residing legend Tom Brady after Maye met with offensive gamers following what the then-rookie quarterback felt was a poor apply.
For a prolonged piece printed on Thursday, Chris Mason and Karen Guregian of MassLive shared one thing Mike Vrabel informed Maye shortly after the Patriots employed Vrabel as their new head coach this previous winter.
“You simply have to speculate time,” Vrabel mentioned a couple of QB1. “The most important factor is with the ability to embrace all people. If you embrace all people, you get to know them. Quarterbacks are afforded loads of privilege round city. They go to eating places. They go to video games. And I mentioned, ‘Hey, at all times keep in mind which you could at all times invite different individuals which may be exterior of your rapid group and use these as experiences and get to know gamers you might not know proper now.'”
Vrabel and Brady earned three Tremendous Bowl rings as teammates with the Patriots from
2001-08, so the previous is aware of loads about how Brady interacted with others within the locker room behind the scenes when cameras weren’t documenting his each transfer.
Whereas it was vital for Maye to talk up earlier than New England’s Week 10 sport on the Chicago Bears, which the Patriots finally gained 19-3, his “efforts to sit down with completely different teammates throughout lunch and ship texts after they had been away from Gillette Stadium” had been additionally fairly Brady-like.
“It’s one thing I felt like Tom did, and I don’t wish to be like, ‘Oh, be Tom Brady,'” Vrabel continued. “I’m simply saying gamers that I’ve been round had been like, ‘Hey let’s go to this sport. Let’s go to the Celtics. Let’s go to the Pink Sox.’ You should use these avenues…He has to guide in his personal method. However once more, the higher you already know any individual, the higher you’ll be able to maintain him accountable.”
Maye made solely 12 begins as a rookie, so it is to be anticipated that he’ll endure sophomore setbacks this coming fall as he works to enhance as each a participant and a pacesetter. He’ll additionally spend a lot of this spring studying the terminology and “wordy offense” put in by new offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels.
With all that mentioned, Vrabel and Co. clearly consider Maye is on course in his try to comply with in Brady’s footsteps because it pertains to profitable greater than a handful of video games.
