Patriots are using VR to train Drake Maye, and Felger hates it originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
The more reps Drake Maye gets, the faster he’ll develop as an NFL quarterback. But what if some of those reps were virtual?
Both New England Patriots executive vice president of player personnel Eliot Wolf and head coach Jerod Mayo have mentioned in the last 24 hours that the team is using “virtual reality” as a tool to train its quarterbacks. Mayo noted that VR is a way to get additional simulated “reps” for players like Maye, who was third in the QB pecking order at Patriots OTAs on Wednesday behind Jacoby Brissett and Bailey Zappe.
This seems like a creative way for New England to maximize its resources in developing Maye, the No. 3 overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft and the team’s hopeful QB of the future.
But not everyone is on board.
“This I find so laughable, and I don’t care how many teams have done it,” co-host Mike Felger said Wednesday on NBC Sports Boston’s Boston Sports Tonight.
Felger noted he’s received emails defending the Patriots’ use of VR by comparing it to flight simulators used to train pilots. Needless to say, he’s out on that analogy.
“Hey, dummy, listen to me,” Felger said. “Do you know why they put them in flight simulators? Because if you put them in a real plane and they make a mistake, what happens? The plane crashes. So they have to put them in simulators.
“In football, you can go out and practice the thing in real life and no one gets hurt and you’re fine. So, bad analogy. Stop sending me that one.”
Felger also wonders if ownership is behind the push to use virtual reality, as Robert Kraft was the owner of the Boston Uprising, an e-sports team that competed in the now-defunct Overwatch League.
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“This I find pathetic,” Felger added. “You know what I find this is too? The Krafts invested heavily in this fakakta, stupid e-sports…
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Publish date : 2024-05-30 13:51:18
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