STREAKING: Patriots Win Their THIRD STRAIGHT Game, BEAT Saints, 25-19

The Pats make it three in a row down in the bayou and Drake May again looks like the guy. Let’s break it down. This is Locked on Patriots. You are Locked On Patriots, your daily New England Patriots podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network. Your team every day. Boy, oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy. Three wins in a row from Mike Vrabel’s Patriots as they beat the Saints just a little while ago, 2519 down in New Orleans. And I got to ask you, what’s happening? I am your host Nick Catles. Born and raised in New England, been covering the past for 16 years. Also co-host of the Greg Bedard Patriots podcast with Nick Catles and a sports talk show host, veteran. And we have a lot to get to reaction to this win down in New Orleans. And coming up on this live postgame, a professional and mature win on the road for Mike Vrabel in company. Also, the offense was not the Stfan Diggs show, and we’ll tell you why that was a good thing. But first, Drake May continues to cook. 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You go back, you watch that first half. Do you have any, and I mean any criticisms for Drake May, decision-making, throws that he made, plays that he made? He was practically flawless in the first half. And really, he was close to flawless throughout this game given the decisions he made and the plays that he made. He had the delay of game penalty in the red zone, which isn’t great. But man, your quarterback once again looks like one of the best quarterbacks in football. Following that win in Buffalo and what May did in the second half against the Buffalo Bills, you know, you’re wondering how’s he going to respond on the road, second straight game away from Gillette Stadium. Is he going to take anything for granted? Is he going to come out slow? And the answer to that was absolutely not. In that first half, he was incredible. 11 for 13, 185 yards, not one, not two, but three touchdowns on the day. Drake May’s passer rating was 140.1. And he extended plays like we have seen over and over and over again. You think he’s dead. You think the offense is dead, defense is feeling good, and then all of a sudden he smokes you. extending plays, keeping those plays alive, keeping his eyes downfield to remain a passer. The explosives that we saw in the first half, he was just absolutely phenomenal following that Bills game in the first half against the Saints. Just phenomenal. And I’m a broken record, but I love being a broken record when it comes to giving credit where credit is due in pumping the tires of the Patriots quarterback. We saw once again today more third down magic from Drake May. He’s been doing it all season long. Even before this hottest of the hot streaks over the past few weeks that we’ve seen from him, Drake May has been so good on third down, so good on fourth down. I It’s almost ludicrous to see how he has been efficient and how he continues to burn defenses on the biggest downs. Third and 11. Fourth quarter, have to have it. Have to have it type play. And Drake May throws a back shoulder beauty to Kahan Booty. Kahan Booty, who we’ll get to a little bit later. Fantastic day from him. But again, third and 11, when you absolutely have to have it, your quarterback steps back in the pocket and drills a back shoulder throw to Kahan Booty 15 plus yards downfield. And and we can sit here and we can look at what Drake May did in this game and we can talk about the statistics because the statistics look great. The analytics look even better. But frankly, Drake May got hosed. Drake May got hosed by this officiating crew multiple times. The fact is Drake May’s numbers should have been better than what they ended up being. Drake May finds Stfan Diggs down the field. Third and forever. A perfect bucket throw down the sideline. Diggs with a great catch. Posed. Very next play, Drake May has pressure on him, takes a hit, stays in the pocket, throws almost a perfect ball to M. Holland. If it’s not for a defensive pass interference call that doesn’t get called, who knows? Who knows if Matt Collins comes down with that football? He probably does because it was another perfect throw from Drake May. So, he could have been even better today if it wasn’t for the officiating crew, which we will get to later on. I’m going to absolutely roast those guys. But, you had two bucket throws that didn’t count. You had the touchdown to Pop Douglas, the second touchdown of Pop Douglas in the first half that didn’t count. Drake May was absolutely stellar in this game once again. And it it feels good to repeat yourself when you’re saying that exact thing that your quarterback was once again tremendous. Zero turnovers, no fumbles, no picks. He continues to take care of the football. And and before this season kicked off, we kept talking about Drake May and the most pivotal number for him was turnover worthy play rate. and he needed to keep that number down. Could he keep the turnovers down? Could he have crisper decisionmaking? And the answer is yes and yes. Another game where Drake May has a clean sheet. No turnovers, nothing really close to a turnover. He made one dangerous throw today, but it wasn’t too crazy. I didn’t think the Trayvon Henderson flip into the flat was that much of a gamble because nobody was really near Trayvon Henderson. And if you feel like you can cleanly get that ball to the running back, then you make that play. We’ve seen Josh Allen and other guys make that play all the time. So once again, he’s taking care of the football. Once again, he is smoking defenses on third and fourth down. And what we continue to see from Drake May are these splash plays. the splash plays that will be on Sports Center later on Sunday night. And you see those splash plays, but you also see those splash plays while Drake May continues to take care of the football. And that is the panacea of play, baby. If if you have Drake May extending plays, making some of these ridiculous throws, making these, oh my god, I can’t believe he just did that type plays while taking care of the football. That is the magic recipe. That’s the secret sauce. If you have both of those things working at the same time where your quarterback is doing something special while he’s not turning the ball over on a consistent basis, that’s the panacea and mature leadership. Once again, we see Drake May being a mature leader. How did he respond after the blown offensive pass interference call? The first one on Stfan Diggs. There were two today on Stfan Diggs. But how did Drake May respond after that penalty that could have been crippling for the offense? You literally just took six points off the board. How did he respond? How did the offense respond? They responded with a touchdown. That’s how they followed it up. You want to call that terrible OPI call on Stfan Diggs? That’s fine. We’re going to come right back and we’re going to punch you in the face. We’re going to drive downfield and we’re going to score a touchdown. So, you can take that touchdown away from us because we’re just going to put it on the board anyway. That’s the resiliency and the mature leadership from your quarterback and from that offense. And I remind people, Drake May continues to play at this incredibly high level in a one-dimensional offense because again, your run game stunk out loud today. He continues to be great when everything, literally everything is on him. The Patriots can’t run the ball. They go into Sundays asking Drake May to be almost perfect. And since that Pittsburgh Steelers game, he’s been pretty much almost perfect. a one-dimensional offense with a young quarterback who just finished his first full year, quote unquote, technically as a starting quarterback, finishing the 17th game. He’s carrying this offense. And shout out to Raandre Stevenson, by the way, cuz the run game wasn’t good, but Raandre Stevenson came up with a couple of huge blitz pickups in this game, which allowed Drake May some extra time to make some plays. But what can you say about Drake May? Honestly, what can you say about this young man? He is straight up balling. He is cooking and it’s on him. It’s on him. Tremendous stuff. We have We have so much to get to. You know, before today, many thought this was a Drake May, Stefan Diggs offense or bust. Well, those people today happen to be wrong. We’ll get to that next. This is Lockdown Patriots, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network. Your team every day. [Music] You know the saying, look good, feel good. The problem is that most dress clothes only check one of those boxes. They look sharp but feel stiff, hot, and high maintenance. That’s why there is Mizin and Maine. Mizen and Maine makes classic men’s wear with performance fabrics. 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They move culture and keep moving the game forward. This week’s moment that moved the game forward is, well, we could go with Drake May, but that’s too easy. So, how about Kahan Booty? Kan Booty finished with five catches, 93 yards, and two touchdowns, including a game-cling third and 11 conversion on a back shoulder throw from Drake May. Whether it was third down heroics or plays that put points on the board, Booty kept the team’s offense moving down the field to help come away from New Orleans with a W. Meanwhile, Pop Douglas also got involved in the passing game after a quiet start to the season and gave his team an early lead with his 53-yd touchdown on a perfect route. Booty and pop absolutely helped the team move forward. Their third straight win. When you follow what moves you, the unexpected is only the beginning. And just like there’s more to every highlight, there’s more to a Mazda vehicle. Mazda move and be move. You know, after the Buffalo game, you wondered, right, with this offense, this passing offense, you’re not running the football effectively. It was really Stfan Diggs or Bust against the Buffalo Bills for the most part last weekend. And you wondered, you know, what would this passing game look like if teams started to devote extra attention to Stfane Diggs or he just had a quiet day? Would they be able to put together enough offense? Would they be able to put together enough passing game to make a defense pay? And the answer, at least for today down in New Orleans, was unequivocally a yes. Stefan Diggs had three catches for 28 yards. Now, he had a big conversion catch, which has been the case with him all year long. Uh he would have had better statistics if he wasn’t called for that ridiculous second offensive pass interference call downfield when he made a tremendous catch. Put his hand on the shoulder of the defender. Really didn’t do anything. Didn’t impact the defender. Is what it is. Patriots won so we can get through it. If the Patriots lost this game, I would have lost my ever loving mind on this live post game and I would have been going crazy moving furniture all over this room. I would have lost my mind like many of you would have lost your mind. But they won the game. They won the game. Stfan Diggs, his stats were impacted by the officiating. Drake May’s stats were impacted by the officiating. But Diggs finishes with three catches, 28 yards. So, not much going on for Stefan Diggs. But that didn’t matter because Deario Douglas, and let’s talk about Deario Douglas for a minute. Pop Douglas has not been a big part of this offense, but he has continued to play hard when given the opportunity. We’ve talked about his blocking downfield, how he blocked two guys on a Hunter Henry touchdown against Carolina. He’s had plays over the past few weeks where he’s blocking people downfield. He’s not giving up. And sometimes you see that from wide receivers when they’re not getting the football. They complain, they moan, they whine, and and they don’t give their all. A lot of credit to Pop Douglas, who has remained a professional, has continued to play hard even though he hasn’t been getting a ton of snaps. He hasn’t been getting a ton of targets. And it paid off. It paid off down in New Orleans. Three catches, 71 yards, and a touchdown. And yes, again, he got hosed on the second touchdown. He should have had much better numbers. He He should have had four catches for well over 102 touchdowns in this game. But shout out to Pop Douglas for remaining a professional, keeping his head on the right way, remaining focused to the task at hand, and helping this team win a game. And he’s done it in other ways without catching the football. And against the Saints, he helped by catching the football. Tremendous stuff from Pop Douglas in that first half. The first touchdown catch for him was just an excellent route. An excellent route downfield. And then you get to Kahan Booty. A return home for Kahan Booty. He said in the post game today that he had upwards of 40 people in the crowd watching him and he bought all those tickets. And Kahan Booty goes out there and does what he did. He had the big first week and then it’s been mostly the Stfan Dig show and the Drake May show as I mentioned a few moments ago. But Kahan Booty, he’s made some big catches. He made a big catch against Buffalo last weekend on third down. When he catches it, he spins around. He reaches out for the first down marker, converts, and they move the chains. Kahan Booty has made some plays. It’s not like he’s been non-existent. He hasn’t been putting up huge production numbers, but he’s come up with some big plays. And today you had both. Today you had Kahan Booty putting up big production numbers and you had Kahan Booty coming up with big play after big play. Five catches, 93 yards, two touchdowns. All five of Kahan Booty’s catches today were for either touchdowns or first downs. You want to talk about having an impact? That goes beyond the box score. When you look at five for 93 and two touchdowns, that’s nice. But then you look at the impact of those five catches. Every single solitary catch from Kahan Booty today was impactful. Every single one was a big play. All five catches either a touchdown or a first down. And Drake May showing his development, Drake May showing his trust with his guys. Stfan Diggs again wasn’t the man today, but it was fine. What did Drake do? Drake May found his other receivers. And we talked about this last week. I mentioned specifically if Stfan Diggs gets all this attention or Stfan Diggs is the guy that defenses are trying to eliminate, that’s going to create opportunities for the other wide receivers in that room. And today you saw Pop Douglas and Kahan Booty respond with big games. And Drake May responds by finding the open man, by not trying to force the issue to Stfane Diggs. Drake May could have forced throw after throw to Stfane Diggs, but he didn’t. And that’s professional maturity. That is development from your quarterback. All these little things, man, that we talk about, they all matter for a quarterback’s development. And Drake May just continues to check a bunch of boxes week after week. And today it was not forcing it to Stfan Diggs after he had two great games. A lot of quarterbacks would go in and try to force the issue to their guy. Didn’t happen. Didn’t happen. Pop Douglas big touchdown over the top. Should have had two big touchdowns over the top. Great job running after the catch. Kahan Booty two touchdowns. Tremendous first touchdown from Booty. I mean, you want to talk about somebody who can handle contested catches. Kahan Booty is a contested catch guy. He proved that multiple times today. That first touchdown was just play strength. That’s play strength. That’s that’s strength of hands. And then you got the third and 11 conversion. Back shoulder throw to seal this game. Whoop. Done. Hunter Henry had three catches. M. Holland had a couple of catches. And I thought, you know, I’ll have to rewatch the game, which I always do on Monday mornings. But in real time, I thought the offensive line was mostly really good in the first half in pass protection. Second half a little bit leaky here and there. I thought Michael Wenu had some bad snaps. Again, this is just watching live. I might feel differently after I watch it over again, but I thought Michael Wenu had a couple of bad snaps today. Obviously, Garrett Bradberry literally had the bad snap on the fourth down. Morgan Moses had a false start. I thought he was beat once or twice. The run game continues to be a problem, but you know, you look at these statistics from the offense. The Patriots were 6 for13 on third down, better than 50% on third down. The New Orleans Saints were three for nine on third down. The offense didn’t turn the football over. The offense won the time of possession 3144 to 2816. And also, the offense, they get the football back with under four minutes, right? Right about four minutes to go. And I tweeted at Nick Cradio if you want to follow me. If the offense does its job, the Saints never see the ball again. That’s precisely what happened. The offense did its job. Third and 11 conversion to Kahan Booty on the back shoulder. Saints never got the ball back. So, third straight win, man. Down in New Orleans against the Saints, 2519 victorious. If you listen to our post uh our preview or if you watched our preview, I had the Patriots winning 2417. Pretty close. Pretty close to the final. But a win is a win. A win is a win. Don’t forget to like. Don’t forget to comment. Don’t forget to subscribe. We’ve got more to give you. Was it a perfect win? No. Was it an impressive win in its own way? Absolutely. 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Of course it wasn’t a perfect game. A perfect win? Of course it wasn’t a perfect win. But was it an impressive win? I would say yes because offensively to start this game, you were shot out of a cannon. And you’re wondering after the Buffalo Bills game last weekend, how would this team come out? How would they look? Now, defensively, slow start. Offensively, fast start. They were ready from the get-go. The quarterback was certainly ready from the get-go. They looked prepared. They looked sharp to start this game on the offensive side. And the biggest question that we had asked going back to late last week was, is this team going to be emotionally mature? Is this team going to respond on the road? Second straight week that you’re on the road. Are they going to respond after the sexy win against Buffalo? Because many would look at this and say, “Oh, it’s a trap game. This team, you got to watch out. You know, they’re going to be flying high. Everybody’s talking about them. Will they be able to emotionally handle that swing and get back on the road down to New Orleans? Pretty long flight, early 12 noon kickoff local time. Would they be able to settle in? Would they be able to respond on the road after that sexy win against Buffalo? And it was a yes. It was a yes. And I thought, you know, you look at the officiating again, those guys stunk out loud. That’s the worst officiating crew that I have seen this year. It’s possibly the worst officiating crew that I’ve seen in the past several years. They were god awful. They were embarrassing. They were absolutely embarrassing. The two offensive pass interference calls on Stefan Diggs were a joke. The defensive pass interference call was a joke. The lack of a defensive pass interference on M. Hollands was laughable. You had those back-to-back plays where they called nothing on Stefan Diggs because he put his hand on the guy’s shoulder. They call it OPI, which was horrible. And you would think that the refs would think to themselves, well, we we screwed over Stfan Diggs and the Patriots offense in the first half by calling an invisible offensive pass interference call on Stfan Diggs. Maybe we shouldn’t call a second one. I mean, that first one was crazy. The Patriots were literally celebrating Pop Douglas’s second touchdown when the flag came out. Did Did the referee get a call from New Orleans? What is that about? Did he get a text? And so you’ve got the blown OPI calls. You’ve got the missed defensive pass interference that was clear again right after you call the phantom OPI on Stfan Diggs. You miss a clear and obvious DPI against M. Collins. I mean, we’re talking about some of the worst. The two-point conversion attempt and Drake May was clearly over the line, clearly broke the goal line. And in real time, they say he was short. They have to review it. Guess what? He wasn’t short. He got into the end zone. They missed the fumble by Jawan Johnson. That had to get reviewed. They called Kahan Booty out of bounds on that third and 11 conversion that sealed the game. They called him out of bounds. I have no idea how they said that he went out of bounds. It was clear he caught the football, came down with both feet and he went down inbounds. They called them out of bound. This officiating crew was as bad as it gets. That’s as bad as it gets. The NFL should be embarrassed that they put that crew out there today. That’s how bad it was. Some of the other stuff was ticky tack, too. I’m just talking about the obvious missed calls, the obvious bad calls. But the Patriots kept at it. The Patriots did not let the first awful offensive pass interference call impact them in any way. As I mentioned in the last segment, they responded. They come down. They score a touchdown. And they did not get a fair shake from the officiating crew all day long, but they kept at it. They kept fighting and they won the game on the road. Tough environment. New Orleans is loud. That dome is loud. And they kept fighting and they found a way. That’s why it’s an impressive win. Mike Vrabel. Excellent. Excellent conversation. I I don’t even I’m still trying to figure out if he technically challenged on the on the Kan Booty play cuz at first the ref said that it was like reviewed expeditiously or whatever he said and and then it was well they get their challenge back and then well they get their it was a little confusing but Mike Vrabel if he didn’t challenge it I think he challenged it he at least had the conversation with the refs and and forced their hand to take a look at it and try to figure out if they got it wrong. Shocker they got it wrong. So Mike Vrabel on top of it and because of that because you caused a little bit of a stir that allowed the Patriots to take a knee. Game was over. New Orleans was out of timeouts. So because you were allowed to run that final 33 seconds off the clock and get to the two-minute warning. Now you need it three times and the game’s over. So that’s a great detail by your coaching staff. It allowed you to end that game on your terms. It wasn’t clean. It wasn’t a clean game. You had 11 penalties and both can be true. The officiating crew was god awful. And you also continue to be undisiplined. One of the most undisiplined, if not the most undisiplined team in the NFL with the penalties, but you got through it. You got through the penalties. You got through a weird play call on third and seven from Josh McDaniels. And then a strange decision by Mike Vrable to go for it on fourth and seven. I thought it was too cute on the third down. fourth down snap disaster. Your defense in the first half, you got off to a slow start. You were too aggressive, but you figured things out in the second half. You held the New Orleans Saints to less than 20 points on the road. You held them three for nine on third down. But this is the type of game where Mike Vrabel is going to have plenty of stuff to look at on the film. He’s going to point it out and say, “Guys, we keep winning and we’re not playing necessarily clean football. If we start playing cleaner football, we’ll be even better than what we’ve been. But all in all, again, those are some nitpicks. The Patriots are 4-2. Mike Rabel’s going to keep them humble looking at that film, but the Patriots are 4-2. They have won three straight games, and if it wasn’t for just giving that Pittsburgh game away, you’d be looking at five and one right now. And it’s starting to get fun. It’s starting to get really fun. You’ve won three straight. You got Tennessee and Tennessee next weekend. Of course, Mike Frabel’s going to be, I would imagine, super motivated to go into Tennessee and prove a point. But you’re 4-2. You are squarely in the playoff hunt right now. You are in the playoff conversation a month and a half into this season. And that’s fantastic. That feels good. And Drake May continues to just be awesome. All right, that wraps up this edition of Lockdown Patriots. Thank you for making us your first listen, for being an everydayer. As well, uh, reach out to me on Twitter at Nickc Radio. Don’t forget to throw a comment in on the YouTube channel. Don’t forget to hit that like button. Don’t forget to subscribe. And for your second listen, go get a double dose of the Lockdown NFL podcast with Tyler the Mad Man, Roland, and Tony Wiggins. Find Lockdown NFL on YouTube or wherever you listen to podcasts. Have a fantastic rest of your Sunday. Patriots victorious. Three wins in a row, improved to 4-2 on the season. And we will see you next time.

The New England Patriots and Drake Maye improve to 4-2 on the season, after fighting out a tough win in New Orleans against the Saints. We discuss Maye’s mastery of the 1st Half, while also breaking down Kayshon Boutte and Pop Douglas’ big days. It wasn’t easy, but it was a win nonetheless and now ties the Pats in total wins this season with all of 2023 and 2024.

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38 comments
  1. They had to play clean game to win, 11 penalties is way too many, but the DEI officiating crew were brutal. No turnovers and for the second week in a row Drake Msye carried the team over the Win line. Quite impressive for an inexperienced QB – the Kid keeps this up and he will be in the MVP conversation.

  2. Boutte because of some issues slipped from round 1 to 6. No he proves he is a solid WR2 with upside to be WR1.
    I remember your discussion with Greg about trading him because he had some trade value.
    No we know he can play and is a great fit for Pats.
    I think our WR room is much better than expected.

    In the second half they were too conservative and running too much.

    I am not going to complain about style becaue W is W and you have more tape to improve next week.

    I expect them to be in Wild Card at least. We will see 😉

  3. they need to be more creative with the run game; seems like all they try to do is run it up the middle. Where are the edge runs? The jet sweeps (which I know are not technically a run, but you get what I'm saying)? Be more creative!

  4. Boutte is the man! When cries to trade him this offseason were going up, I was a vocal opponent. I've been a fan of him ever since college; they stole him in the 6th round. This kid fell from a possible first round; why not take a flyer on him. It's paying off now. Keep up the great work, Kayshon! And Pop's attitude to his play time/targets/usage shows you just how 'bought in' this team is to Vrab's approach. If we stay focused, we will go far this year.

  5. Even though we didn't have enough rushing yards to be comfortable with I don't think that that's the problem I think that the defensive backs are going to be the Achilles heel of this team. They have a hard time covering in the zone coverage

  6. Hey Nick. Thanks for what you do. I am shy. I want to get excited. I just cannot get by the lack of competition (strength of schedule in college terms). If we make the playoffs will we not be the worst team given we are playing other struggling/rebuilding teams? The teams, non-Buffalo, we have beat have a combined win total of 4? That doesn't scream the hype that we are feeling logically anyway. I love the wins..don't get me wrong; i am stuck in the "well, we have hope again because they are playing better and we are starting to see potential, but 5 turnovers against Pittsburgh. I don't want to get forward on my skis. Thanks again for your efforts and reporting. Let's go Patriots!!

  7. They look better, almost literally, each week. There has been a clear progression even within the season… each week shows improvement. This game was not nearly as close as the score indicates based on one of the worst officiated games I have seen in some time. Maye will now be talked about as an MVP candidate.

  8. Vrabel wasn't challenging that Boutte caught pass in bounds. But challenge that Boutte wasn't tackled out of bounds. I didn't get that the clock shouldn't have kept running when he was pulled out of bounds. Obviously fell out of bounds after he caught pass but why didn't clock stop????

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