The Secret Weapon That’s Making Drake Maye Elite

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00:00If you're a national guy, we have this conversation a lot, MVP voting right now,

00:04where does Drake may land? Now that Baker Mayfield had a very bad week.

00:10He's top five somewhere in there. I would say if I had a vote right now,

00:16it might be Mahomes. I just think Mahomes is playing at an insanely high level. He had to

00:22carry the team early. He's played at an off-the-charts level of late. I think he's back

00:29to being the best player in football after Josh Allen took that mantle from him last year.

00:35So I would say Mahomes would probably get my vote right now. I think Drake's in there. I think

00:43Baker Mayfield's in there. You know who doesn't get any run for this award? Taylor.

00:50Taylor. Well, Taylor's a good one. I like that. I like Taylor. Taylor could be offensive player

00:57of the year. I didn't mean to cut you up. I just thought that was the answer.

00:59Well, I mean, if you're talking running backs, I think Christian McCaffrey deserves some credit

01:03too because I think McCaffrey has been the one constant for San Francisco. They're five and two.

01:09So I think McCaffrey deserves some mention too if we're talking about non-quarterbacks.

01:13I hear a question though, Fred. I think he's very much in the running. I think he's playing at an

01:17unbelievable level. I think they've had a huge argument with Felger over at last night on TV.

01:23I think they're doing a good job of balancing having him as a playmaker and doing stuff from

01:29the pocket. This is going to buy him time to develop, right? So I think the one point I want

01:36to get across about this too, because I know there's been a big discussion point, is he protecting

01:39himself enough, right? You're talking about May? Yeah. Okay.

01:42Okay. So I think we can all agree he needs to slide more, right? He needs to take care

01:47of himself. You cannot eliminate him as a runner because what he is doing as a runner

01:52is messing with defenses in ways that people cannot see. It limits what a defense can do

01:59in coverage. It forces a defense to put a spy on him. You can't rush him like you would a

02:06non-mobile quarterback. You can't rush him the same way. So in a very complicated game and in an

02:12era where defenses are trying to throw a million different things at you, a quarterback's athleticism

02:19can limit what a defense throws at you and can simplify that picture and can create plays that

02:24wouldn't exist from the pocket. And it's just the way that guys develop now. They don't develop the

02:31same way they used to. And by the way, it's harder now because defenses are more complex than they

02:35were 25 years ago. It's much more difficult to be a pure pocket quarterback. Like to me, Joe Burrow

02:41is like the unicorn. As far as guys who become superstars, most guys develop the way that Drake is

02:48developing now. Your Mahomes, your Allens, like this was what Ben Roethlisberger was, right? You

02:54have the, like you buy yourself time to develop the pocket stuff by being an athlete and by threatening

03:03defenses that way. And I had a great conversation with Greg Roman about this, who's the Chargers

03:09offensive coordinator and what they told Justin Herbert over the summer. So he went to Oregon and

03:14spent some time with him during the break and he brought cut-ups of Mahomes and Allen. And

03:19it was all the stuff that they were doing with their legs that just affected the defense in a zillion

03:26different ways. And Roman's point was that he wanted Herbert to run more, not less. And he said,

03:33you don't know how demoralizing that is for a defense when they've got a good rush plan,

03:38when they've got it covered. And now all of a sudden here comes the six foot five, 240 pound quarterback,

03:43and they ripped off seven yards and the chains are moving. It completely deflates and demoralizes a

03:49defense. It forces you to cover for, if you're a defensive back, it could force you to cover for five

03:54seconds instead of two. Well, it affects you in so many different ways. Well, I mean, just watching

03:59and Drake's doing that now. Right. And if you watch Josh Allen play and you just see him, I mean,

04:05you have to be able to extend plays now in the NFL. Like you have to, you have to be able to extend

04:09plays and you have to, yeah, have you've seen with your own eyes, you've seen games where quarterbacks

04:15are getting loose and, and picking up for third and seven and you can pick up a first down with your

04:19legs when everything is broken down. The secondary is covering everything perfectly. There's a rush in you that

04:24you can evade and end up picking up first down. It's absolutely demoralizing. I mean, we've seen

04:29it a trillion times. I mean, it's demoralizing as a fan to watch that happen. Exactly. Believe me,

04:34believe me, I see it all the time.

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