Film Study: How will Drake Maye and the New England Patriots handle the Houston Texans defense

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1. This is a great series. How did your Wild Card evaluations turn out?

2. To be honest of the Pats get 10 points I will be impressed

3. DK was opened so much on the seam route last night Rodgers just didn’t have time

4. Why the abbreviations with your charts? It would be much easier to write it out for us that are not analytics experts. You have plenty of room to write it out. Thnks.

5. The threat of Williams speed made that 4th down play work . Speed kills

6. The Patriots will finally get the respect they deserve. Looks like the Pats defense easily matches up with Texas defense. The rest is on Drake Maye! Go Pats.

7. We could have easily had 30 points if maye hit all his passes. He was off target 1st half

8. Lots of negative folks here. Answer this? What excuse for Pats great defense vs chargers. You guys all predicted the chargers defense to kick pats asses. What happened. This I can’t wait to hear. Next!

9. In josh we trust he will scheme up short passes bubble screens amd draw plays to punish the over aggressive d line of texans. He knows exactly what he's doing

10. The texans are winning the super bowl. Its a championship level defense.

11. PFF Pat run blocking is out of date
    Pats running up with Jumbo scheme

12. Quick passes all game

13. No, as a Pats fan, I am horrified. Putting in a second year QB against that pass rush when he has a tendency to fumble or throw a pick when flustered is a recipe for disaster. We will need a ground game and Maye will need to make some passes outside the pocket.

14. WHY DIDNT YOU GO BAVK TO DRAKES 2024 TAPE VS THE TEXANS!? HIS 1ST GAME STARTING AND HE HAD 3 TDS AND 2 INTs(one was a tipped pass), he also had a strip sack as well but he played very well for a rookies first game!

15. After watching the Chargers game, the Pats' O-line needs to step up, and Drake "The aMayezing" needs to learn to read/get the ball out quicker. Even if the Pats don't make the SB, they and Maye should be proud of their season. He's young and is still full of cum 🤣.

16. Drake maye is the 4th most sacked Qb in the league this season. Sacked 47 times…geno Smith is first with 55. Texans defense is going to work the pats o line.

17. We have the best oc in the game. I’m not worried.

18. Mayflower needs to stop fumbling.

19. Josh has always planned good games against Good Defenses.

    As long as Drake keeps the Texans off the field and doesn't make any stupid mistakes we will be fine.

20. Not having Mack hollins puts a little pressure on the patriots offense

21. Josh needs to come up with a major creative offensive game plan. No depending on trick plays. The Texans defense looks awesome, solid; yet, they can be tired out as the game progresses. Our defense can really do well to disrupt Stroud. Stroud can be made to falter and make bad mistakes. Good for us. For us, HANDS, and ball protection… and then maybe some periodic hurry-up offense in the 4th quarter, to try to throw off Texans timing and defense rotation!. There are ways. We can do this!

22. Pats are going to have their hands full with this Defense. Hunter & Anderson are a nightmare to block. Drake is going to have to get rid of the ball quickly & he better be accurate as The entire Texan secondary are ball hawks. Campbell, Wilson & the entire O-Line have to figure out a way to give Drake some time. I think you’re going to see a lot of quick short passes like you saw with Brady & Edelman. Maybe a good time to work Chism into the offense …

23. The Patriots line is looking mighty fine. Bet it and forget it

24. I want Josh to bring back the trademark hoss-Y out of a base look

    Hopefully we get Mack hollins back

25. The Pats scheme will be to play the safest offense possible and rely mostly on Stroud making mistakes, he looked flustered and scared vs the Steelers and likely won't have his top receiver due to concussion, also Maye has been the best QB in the league under pressure this season, he's one of the highest sacked qbs and is a possible MVP so I think it's going to be an ugly game but the Pats will make less mistakes and come away with a win, I hope.

26. I can't wait till Mack Comes back

27. Hunter Henry was open on that first cover 3 but the pocket collapse forced May out of the pocket. It’s on our o line to protect Maye

28. Cupcake AFC EAST TEAMS

29. Turnover differential will play a major part in the game. If the Pats defense can continue to create havoc on the Texans offense and have the offense wear down the Texans defense I see a clear path for the Pats to the next round.

30. What's the over-under on how many holding penalties will be called?

31. It's a shame that the Pat's don't have one deep threat. The Texans are going to take advantage of that.

32. Jalen what??? I've never heard his name pronounced p-tier

33. kamari lassiter was locking up stefon in practice

34. Pats are the definition of paper tigers. Easiest schedule in a decade and beat the only playoff winless QB with an injured team 😂😂 yall getting smacked

35. Here's a fun stat for you Texans fans. Your team averaged more PPG without Stroud in the lineup this year then when he's played. Defense carries his sorry ass

36. man I think drake will have 3 times more rushing yards than the running backs on sunday! LOL

37. Drake and Josh

38. Texans will make Maye look silly.

39. Patriots only scored 16 points against a defense that’s inferior to the Texans

40. Patriots have a lot of receiving options? Say you????

41. Id probably look at phasing out PPF grading altogether, they haven't updated their rating system at all in a long time, its definitely a cool proprietary rating system but its more of a selling point for subscribers rather than an all encompassing metric, EPA and Success Rate are far more predictive

42. You haven’t watched the patriots this year if you haven’t seen there run games

43. The Patriots run game is okay, their OL is just better at pass blocking; where with Drake Maye’s scrambling it compliments the run game pretty handily. The Pats rush grade probably mostly stems from the mid season fumbles, which have regressed to the mean as of late

44. pee tree / puh tier