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Patriots Mailbag: Finding a No. 1 wide receiver for Drake Maye originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
The New England Patriots have some momentum entering their Week 9 showdown with the Tennessee Titans. After taking down the New York Jets at home, they’ll head to Nashville looking for their third win of the campaign.
Before we shift our focus to Sunday’s game, we’ve got some mailbag questions to answer. Let’s jump in…
With Maye likely out and Jacoby playing well with the playbook built for Maye does AVP revert to the Jacoby plays that got him benched?
— John Mastrangelo ! (@Jfmastrangelo) October 29, 2024
Feels as though Drake Maye has a real chance to play on Sunday, John. We were told on Wednesday that Maye would be limited to 30 minutes at practice, which seemed to indicate he was in Phase 3 of the NFL’s concussion protocol.
Maye could conceivably get through that phase and pass the final two phases prior to Sunday’s game in Nashville. Jerod Mayo indicated in his Wednesday presser that the team hoped to know late in the week whether or not they’d have Maye available to them.
That, to me, is significant. If they feel there’s a decent chance Maye could play against the Titans, they should be working on the offensive game plan under the presumption he’ll be healthy. If it turns out that he’s not cleared, then you simply handle the start of the game the way they handled the last three quarters of their win over the Jets: Adjust a game plan built for Maye to best fit Brissett.
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There are base plays and concepts that both players know well from working on them all the way back to training camp, so it’s not as though the team would be running a drastically different plan depending on the signal-caller behind center. But they should be able to tweak things — and quickly — if it turns out Maye can’t play.
That’s part of the benefit of having a veteran with…
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Publish date : 2024-10-30 22:06:31
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