WEEI Afternoons: Mark Schlereth on if the Patriots are relying too heavily on Drake Maye

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00:00Right now, this football team, really their identity is Drake May.

00:05Do you think that they're leaning too much on Drake May?

00:09Last Sunday, they did get the running game going early, which was good.

00:12Ramondre went 18 carries for 89 yards, almost five yards a carry.

00:16Granted, the Titans had the worst rush defense in the NFL, but Drake's the identity.

00:20Are they leaning on him too much right now to basically get to where they want to go,

00:25which is be a top 10 team in the NFL and make the playoffs?

00:28Yeah, I would say, are they in first place in 5-2 and should have probably won the two games they lost early in the season?

00:34Yeah, so no.

00:36I mean, Drake May has been that good.

00:38He's been that legit.

00:40And the other thing is, you know, you can sit there and say all those things,

00:44but Drake made, what, he threw it 23 times?

00:48Yeah.

00:48And he's been great on the scrambles.

00:50Now, he did have the one hit where he had to leave the game for a little bit

00:53with the potential to get checked out for the concussion.

00:56That always scares you a little bit.

00:58But I would say this, that when you're out in the open field like that,

01:03at least you see where guys are coming from.

01:06Like, I think that there's probably bigger hits in the pocket at times

01:10than there are out there on the edges when you scramble a little bit.

01:13So I'm not too concerned about that to be sure.

01:16I think that that's okay.

01:17So anyhow, that's kind of the way I would go about that,

01:21the direction I would look at.

01:23But no, they've got a young quarterback who's playing his butt off,

01:27who's unreal, manipulating the pocket, stepping up.

01:31He's got this sense about him where he can see the rush,

01:36or he can feel the rush without actually looking at the rush,

01:40rolling his shoulders, climbing up in the pocket,

01:42and never escaping out the back of the pocket,

01:45always escaping out the front and then to the side,

01:49which to me is how you eliminate big sacks.

01:52If you take a sack in those situations,

01:54you're taking a sack for three or four yards,

01:57as opposed to eight, nine, ten yards.

01:59And you can operate and live and survive as an offense doing that.

02:03You can operate and live and survive as an offense doing that.