{"id":32790,"date":"2025-09-16T01:50:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T01:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=32790"},"modified":"2025-09-16T01:50:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T01:50:34","slug":"news-insider-praises-josh-mcdaniels-utilizing-drake-mayes-athleticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=32790","title":{"rendered":"NEWS: Insider Praises Josh McDaniels Utilizing Drake Maye&#8217;s Athleticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>Maye is at his best when he&#8217;s moving in the pocket with his feet<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.patspulpit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/09\/gettyimages-2233652826.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=18.719052048151%2C24.006902288116%2C76.28510757362%2C75.993097711884&amp;w=2400\" alt=\"Sunday Patriots Notes: Josh McDaniels impressed by Drake Maye after  Minnesota trip | Pats Pulpit\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div id=\"primary\"><main id=\"mainContent\" role=\"main\"><\/p>\n<article id=\"post-2044667\">\n<div data-analytics-datalayer-category=\"ArticleContentDetails\"><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??--><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??-->Drake Maye delivered one of the best performances of his career in the New England Patriots\u2019 victory over the Miami Dolphins on Sunday, and offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels significantly contributed to it.<\/p>\n<p>NBC Sports Boston\u2019s Patriots insider, Phil Perry, praised McDaniels for utilizing Maye\u2019s athleticism early in the game.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/bostonglobe\/C7PKZEFLCLHSWHZJXAQVDZHOFI.jpg\" alt=\"Josh McDaniels talks about offensive terminology, Drake Maye, and  fine-tuning the Patriots' offense\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt appeared as though McDaniels wanted to take advantage of Maye\u2019s athleticism in Week 2,\u201d Perry wrote Monday. \u201cWhether or not McDaniels knew on-the-run types of throws would help Maye feel at ease early in the game is unclear. But Maye had multiple bootleg throws on the first drive alone, one on a throwback to Austin Hooper, who had leaked out to the back side of the play, and one that went for a touchdown to Mack Hollins and made them work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaye later scrambled off a bootleg look for six yards and hit Hunter Henry on a rollout throw for nine more,\u201d Perry added. \u201cGood thinking by McDaniels to get Maye moving, which seemed to help him feel comfortable early in the game, setting him up for success throughout.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots\u2019 offense appeared significantly different in the first half compared to their Week 1 loss to the Las Vegas Raiders, with Maye utilizing his legs more. The running backs were able to rush the ball more effectively because the Dolphins were uncertain whether Maye would be rolling out on a bootleg, keeping it himself or handing it off.<\/p>\n<p>McDaniels is used to working with quarterbacks who excel as pocket passers, such as Tom Brady, Derek Carr, Jimmy Garoppolo and Kyle Orton. However, this season, he will have to adapt his coaching style to suit a more athletic quarterback like Maye.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/main><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New England Patriots OC Josh McDaniels was able to use quarterback Drake Maye&#8217;s athleticism to set the tone against the Dolphins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-england-patriots"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NEWS: Insider Praises Josh McDaniels Utilizing Drake Maye&#039;s Athleticism - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=32790\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NEWS: Insider Praises Josh McDaniels Utilizing Drake Maye&#039;s Athleticism - 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