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00:00Look, and this is, should not be a revelation to anyone that this offense right now is going
00:07in fits and starts.
00:08I didn't like the tempo today, Christian.
00:09I didn't like, it was probably about a minute and 15 seconds between plays.
00:12And this is at the tail end of practice, the Patriots were coming off of their 20 and moving
00:17towards the red zone.
00:19And Jacoby Brissett looked pretty good in his stint.
00:21And then we saw Drake May come in.
00:23They basically, because of the fleet of ineffective plays, it was a fumbled snap.
00:28There were two horrendous incompletions.
00:31There were very simple pass breakups, but the team would, because they have to try and
00:34get all the different plays in and situations, they would just matriculate the ball down
00:38the field anyway and spot it someplace else.
00:41So it was not a good day for Drake May.
00:44I think last week, people like me spent a lot of time explaining, hey man, he took a
00:49huge jump from the first time we saw him at rookie minicamp fundamentally to the last
00:54minicamp.
00:55And he had some good days prior to the pads coming on.
00:58But he still was the biggest project of the three best quarterbacks.
01:03He is also a bigger project than J.J. McCarthy.
01:05He is a project quarterback.
01:07So my intimations of, hey, he could be closing the gap to being a starter on opening day,
01:13or they could at least consider it, I'm going to say that was premature.
01:17Just go with what you believed in the first.
01:19Well, and I also think, too, that he's got to be able to do the basic stuff.
01:23They're still working on him taking snaps under center, which leads to inefficient handoffs,
01:28which we saw today.
01:29One hit the ground.
01:30Boom, it went the other way.
01:32As we learned with Mac Jones, that was really the final nails in Mac's coffin, was it wasn't
01:37just picks.
01:38It was picks going the other way, turnovers going the other way for points.
01:42They're not good enough to be able to deal with that.
01:44And you've got to make sure that the kid is OK, because here's the other thing, too.
01:48And Jalen Rager just talked about, hey, man, I didn't face any adversity until the NFL.
01:52Mays had a little bit, but he's going to go through some moments out here where he's
01:57got to get through that adversity and practice to get better at the little things before
02:01they can get him in the game.
02:02Yeah.
02:03And I think he probably has never been, in terms of adversity, the guy that everyone
02:07was looking at and going, what are you doing?
02:09Right.
02:10If you're at North Carolina and you're 7 and 4, you're actually the savior and the hero.
02:13So it's a different role for him.
02:15I look at it, Christian, and I'm seeing these plays unfold and wondering to myself, does
02:23the rest of the team and the offense look at him and say, OK, he's just not ready, just
02:27not completely not ready.
02:28But he's on a curve for everyone.
02:31No, that's what I was saying before I rolled down here, is he ain't ready.
02:36And that's totally fine, because the way I kind of phrased it with Gresh was that with
02:41Mac, he was the most NFL ready, but he had a lower ceiling.
02:48With Drake, it's like he is not as ready and prepared, but he has a higher ceiling.
02:53Would you agree with that kind of analogy?
02:55Yes.
02:56And that's actually what I was filibustering to try and get to my point.
02:58That's the point I was trying to remember to make, was that Mac Jones got to the NFL
03:03and he knew where the ball went immediately.
03:08That's not Josh McDaniels and that's not whoever else was on the offense with him in 2021.
03:13That was Mac Jones.
03:14That was his gift.
03:16Knew what he was looking at, knew how to get it out, knew how to get it out on time.
03:20He's gone through whatever he did at the bowl school, whatever he did at Alabama.
03:24He was remarkably adept at doing that.
03:28May's not there yet.
03:29Flat, simple, period, not there yet.