{"id":718856,"date":"2026-01-31T10:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/718856\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T10:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:38:13","slug":"the-drake-maye-clip-that-hubert-davis-showed-to-his-unc-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/718856\/","title":{"rendered":"The Drake Maye Clip That Hubert Davis Showed to His UNC Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the second half of Sunday\u2019s AFC Championship game in Denver \u2014 a snow-filled slugfest \u2014 Drake Maye turned to offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels and muttered, \u201cIt\u2019s hard\u2026 good God.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s second half in Mile High Stadium featured three points, six punts, temperatures in the low teens, and snowfall so heavy that the grounds crew used snowblowers after every change of possession just to make the yard markers visible.<\/p>\n

McDaniels laughed and looked up at his quarterback from one knee, telling him, \u201cLook at me \u2014 it\u2019s gonna be hard. But this will be the most rewarding six and a half minutes of our lives if we can get it done.\u201d<\/p>\n

The clip, which surfaced on social media<\/a> in the days following the Patriots\u2019 eventual victory, struck a chord with Hubert Davis.<\/p>\n

So much so, in fact, that the UNC head coach shared it with his team on Thursday at practice in an effort to motivate his group.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI referenced that (video clip), and I said, \u2018Guys, it\u2019s hard, it\u2019s hard to win, it\u2019s hard to practice, it\u2019s hard to box out, it\u2019s hard to talk on defense, hard to sprint to offense,\u2019\u201d Davis told reporters Friday. \u201c\u2018It\u2019s hard to get to the offensive glass. It\u2019s hard to make open shots. It\u2019s hard to get to the free throw line. It\u2019s hard to play here, it\u2019s hard. And that\u2019s good, and that hardness is something that you have to walk towards and embrace.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Absent a midweek opponent, the Tar Heels find themselves at the tail end of the final open week of their 2025-26 campaign, and the message from Davis and his staff has been clear: keep pushing.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I told the guys, \u2018I know it\u2019s hard, but if we can figure out how to get this done for the next two months, this is something that could be impactful for the rest of your life,\u2019\u201d Davis said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After dropping three of their first four games in January, the Tar Heels got up off the mat last week, rattling off back-to-back wins over Notre Dame and Virginia on the road, setting up Saturday\u2019s matchup with the Yellow Jackets as an opportunity to close out the month with a winning record.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think when you have that momentum, you have to fight to keep that momentum,\u201d Davis said. \u201cAnd when you don\u2019t, you have to fight to get it, and throughout this week of practice, during the bye week, just been a constant message on trying to continue that momentum and try to improve on the things that we need to improve on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s game in Atlanta should not be overlooked. While Georgia Tech owns the second-lowest KenPom rating in the ACC (127), the Yellow Jackets have already notched a road win over NC State (24) and were locked in a three-point game at the final media timeout at Cameron Indoor after leading Duke (3) by as many as seven.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not even accounting for UNC\u2019s historic struggles on the road against Georgia Tech. McCamish Pavilion will be sold out for the No. 16 Tar Heels\u2019 visit and has been designated as the Yellow Jackets\u2019 \u201cWear White\u201d game, setting the stage for what should be a rowdy environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the second half of Sunday\u2019s AFC Championship game in Denver \u2014 a snow-filled slugfest \u2014 Drake Maye…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[10160,7,103963],"class_list":{"0":"post-718856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-drake-maye-21-myers-park","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-hubert-davis"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115989283321443277","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}