What are you expecting from Drake Maye Sunday? What kind of plays are you expecting them to draw up?
What are you expecting from Drake Maye Sunday? What kind of plays are you expecting them to draw up?
Category
🥇
SportsTranscript
00:00I was interested in the way he described what he would do when it comes to scheme game plan
00:08for Drake May on on Sunday and you agree?
00:11Yeah, I like to shrink the playbook for him.
00:13Do things that he you know he does well put him on the move when you want to take a shot
00:18I would go like you know I know Shyam's gonna love this jump into the world of max protection
00:23off play action maybe it becomes a one or two man route max where you have plenty of
00:28guys that can protect and if that shot's not there based on you know based on the
00:33coverage then maybe just use your athletic ability and get out of there.
00:37Or add in a nice wiggy classic tight end leak route you're good to go.
00:41The O-ish screen.
00:42What do you think what do you think the balance ends up being Sunday between run plays and
00:47others?
00:48I think you're probably I would probably say 55% run you know 45% pass you don't want to
00:55keep it simple for him especially in the first game against a good defense that you
01:00know Will Anderson Jr. can get after the quarterback.
01:03But also that game game script could easily change if you get down seven nothing ten nothing
01:08early.
01:09And I like empty too.
01:10I like empty for a young quarterback.
01:12Put him in empty have short routes make him get the ball out of his hand quickly for sprinkle
01:18a little bit of motion in there so it determines for him whether or not they're playing man
01:22or zone so he can have a good pre-snap read and then he's able to get the ball out quickly
01:27and if you know they're in a zone and things happen you know they happen to jump routes
01:31when you're in empty it's an obviously a good time for a quarterback to get up out of there
01:35and use his athletic ability.
01:37You and Bill O'Brien love to throw the game script out there Shyam.
01:41Yeah I mean we're we're simpatico Greg we're on the same page.
01:44I'm on Shyam Island.
01:46I think Shyam there's a real possibility that he would send you on the road to do some scouting.
01:50I would I would be yeah yeah I would be over the moon.
01:54That is a that is a segment for the show.
01:57We get Shyam video of him on the road scouting taking notes.
02:02He becomes like the Michigan stopwatch out.
02:05He's a big bone Connor Stallion.
02:07Yes yes.
02:08Like lock me in.
02:10There you go.
02:11Send me to Louisville.
02:12I'll go.
02:13I'll go scout.
02:14But do you have faith that when you heard Bill O'Brien talk about all of those things
02:18you just talked about.
02:19Yeah.
02:20Faith that Alex Van Pelt can and is going to do that.
02:25Well I think he can.
02:27I mean it's not that difficult like if you're an offensive coordinator and the other thing
02:31that you would do is like if there was something he did good on scout team maybe a specific
02:37play concept that you said oh he really did good and like because he talked about how
02:41other offenses were pretty cool.
02:44You we all know it's a copycat cat league.
02:47Take some of those things and maybe incorporate it into your offense.
02:50I'm also curious too because AVP said early in the season it might have been right after
02:54week one that he wasn't able to use his whole playbook.
02:57I'm curious if that's because a portion of his playbook was specifically designed for
03:01a quarterback that has a skill set like Drake May and you just can't use that with Jacoby
03:05percent because over four weeks we haven't seen the playbook evolve all that much.
03:08So I'm kind of curious where that portion of the playbook he was referencing even is
03:12that's probably the RPO play portion of the playbook.
03:15The element of giving your running game an extra an extra running back in the sense
03:24where your quarterback's a good athlete.
03:25Think about the touchdown that he scored in the preseason came off of an RPO where he
03:30made it seem like all right I could give it to the running back.
03:32He keeps it.
03:33Boom.
03:34Jayden Daniels scored a touchdown like that in the game last week I believe or a couple
03:39of weeks when you have that type of quarterback especially inside the 10 yard line and you
03:44can run RPO with him is a lot of things that you could do.
03:47So maybe that's the portion of what I'll ask those that are listening this as well.
03:53But what what's your what's what's a good showing by Drake May on Sunday.
04:01What what what meets your expectation.
04:03Shyme you be he was number one in your mocks.
04:07Yeah from time to time.
04:08No throughout the entire the entire time not time to time the entire time.
04:12Sometimes you change your marks after the draft.
04:14You were a J.J. McCarthy guy for a hot second.
04:16Yeah no Drake May has has always been and it will always be my number one quarterback
04:20from that.
04:21So what's a reasonable expectation of success for him on Sunday.
04:27Do they have to win the football game.
04:29No I don't think you have to win the football game.
04:30I think you have to.
04:31Your offense has to be competitive right.
04:33You have to be clearly taking a step up from what you've been the first five weeks of the
04:38season.
04:39You have to look at least more cohesive at least more explosive than that.
04:43If you want like number parameters I don't know I would say one seventy five plus and
04:48at least a touchdown throw like that to me and you can't turn over the ball over and
04:52over again.
04:53Yeah.
04:54You can't have like three interceptions right.
04:55Like if he throws a pick I don't.
04:57That's fine.
04:58I'm not I'm not scared of him throwing interceptions.
05:01Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes lead the league in interceptions over the last like two years.
05:05But they're the best quarterbacks of football because they throw so much.
05:07Ian Jerry in the Twitch chat says one touchdown one pick two hundred yards.
05:12See I don't even need.
05:13You just can't have that Zach Wilson three interceptions like where the hell is he throwing
05:19the ball.
05:20He just like you can't have that.
05:21I don't know.
05:22Zach Wilson quickly.
05:23Did you see the stat out there that through the first four games Aaron Rodgers and Zach
05:27Wilson scored the same number of points.
05:30Correct.
05:31Right.
05:32I had the same amount of touch interceptions I think.
05:33Yep.
05:34Right.
05:35I don't like the yardage numbers or you know I just want to see where you can go and we've
05:41seen these games.
05:42We've seen him with Zach Wilson.
05:43We've seen him with Matt Jones where you go.
05:46Oh he looks like he's got potential.
05:50That's I think what I'll be looking for in this game where it's like this kid looks like
05:54he has some potential and take that.
05:57I think that's going to be the biggest takeaway for me versus where if this you go out there
06:02and he just looks like a Darren headlights 6 0 3 text from my beloved New Hampshire people.
06:08I can't wait for this offense to look worse with Drake May and to hear how Shyam explains
06:14it away on Monday morning.
06:15Well he will have that opportunity to do that on a page.
06:17Yeah.
06:18I won't explain anything away.
06:19I don't need to worse.
06:20It physically cannot look worse.
06:22You're the only quarterback in all the football that is worse than Jacoby Brissett is Deshaun
06:27Watson.
06:28That's it.
06:29It's the only one like the only way Drake May looks awful is if he's out there.
06:33Will Levis things like throwing the ball like just handing the ball to the other team which
06:36isn't going to happen.
06:38He's getting ready to get sad.
06:40I don't want to.
06:41You don't want the falling over in the end zone avoiding the safety by throwing a pick
06:47six.
06:48You don't want that.
06:49No I don't like that.
06:50I don't want to surrender Cobra after he just threw a pick and the guys take it to the house
06:53like and it's crazy to me that people just like assume you make one mistake and you're
06:57just immediately a bad quarterback like did anybody see Jordan Love this weekend make
07:01and like a Carson Wentz decision to throw trying to throw it away and he throws it to
07:04the corner and it's a pick six like quarterbacks make mistakes sometimes it's just do you learn
07:09from them and do you continue to make them is the question.
07:12It's a lot of fun to not be the guy that's oddly obsessed and in love with the Patriots
07:16quarterback like it's amazing seeing Shime and how energized this has made him.
07:22I Curtis I feel like an entirely new human being like going through the Mac Jones era
07:27post Tom Brady and getting here has been like an insane roller coaster.
07:32I do.
07:33I do worry about Van Pelt just being a total PUD.
07:36Well that's the problem.
07:38I get that.
07:39I mean that I don't know that he's the guy.
07:44I mean I wish we could send Van Pelt to the Pepper Palace get some exotic flavors in the
07:48offense like even if Van Pelt's not the guy you're still going to see moments where Drake
07:52May is awesome like he will he is he will be he can be so good that he can overcome
07:58the play calling to a point like it's never going to be to the point where he's going
08:01to take you to a Super Bowl like but he's going to be able to overcome bad play calling
08:05at times.
08:06Look for the moments.
08:07I think that's a great a good word that Shime uses.
08:10Look for the moments in the Drake May performance that you can walk away and go OK.
08:16He does have that potential to be really good.
08:22And then if Alex Van Pelt isn't the guy now you just got to hope the next guy that they
08:27get is the one because you don't want him to have like a Baker Mayfield situation where
08:31it's like three different offensive coordinators in his first three years as a quarterback.
08:35All right.
08:36Well Drake May gets his first NFL start on Sunday.