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Ranking Drake Maye among AFC QBs produces a surprising result originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
The Patriots will almost certainly finish closer to the No. 1 pick than the playoffs. But ask yourself this: How many AFC teams have better quarterback situations right now?
Drake Maye represents legitimate hope where a week ago there was none. His three-touchdown debut in a 41-21 loss to the Texans served as what the Patriots can only hope is a microcosm of their season – a rough start followed by a tantalizing finish.
Rarely has a three-touchdown loss felt so good. With one 40-yard bomb to Kayshon Boutte, Maye rewound the clock three decades to another top pick at the game’s most important position, one who ultimately took the Patriots to a Super Bowl.
Anyone around when Drew Bledsoe closed the 1993 season with four straight wins, including a scintillating four-TD performance in the finale against Miami, remembers wishing the 1994 season could start the next day. Sunday rekindled those feelings.
And so we’ll ask again, How many conference rivals would you swap QBs with right now? And by my count, the answer is impressively small: five.
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Start in the AFC East, where two flawed clubs squared off for a Monday Night Football flag-fest. Buffalo’s Josh Allen remains the class of the division and is one of the top three QBs in the game. You’d take him over Maye, whose running ability and big arm make him an Allen mini-me.
But Aaron Rodgers? No thank you. The city that once gave us Broadway Joe is now in thrall to a drama queen who has already gotten his head coach fired and just saw the Jets assume the bloated contract of Davante Adams in a trade with the Raiders as part of their never-ending quest to keep the diva QB happy.
At 2-4, the Jets are in danger of watching their season slip away this month, in which case Rodgers will find a…
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Publish date : 2024-10-15 16:15:59
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