{"id":720887,"date":"2026-02-01T06:46:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T06:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/720887\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T06:46:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T06:46:26","slug":"drake-mayes-dad-surprised-by-super-bowl-run-says-patriots-are-fortunate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/720887\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake Maye&#8217;s Dad &#8216;Surprised&#8217; By Super Bowl Run, Says Patriots Are &#8216;Fortunate&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New England Patriots\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/01\/drake-maye-injury-prompts-one-word-response-from-seahawks-before-super-bowl-lx\/\" id=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/01\/drake-maye-injury-prompts-one-word-response-from-seahawks-before-super-bowl-lx\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">run to Super Bowl LX<\/a> has shocked the NFL world.<\/p>\n<p>Patriots quarterback Drake Maye\u2019s dad, Mark Maye, is apparently one of the many that are stunned by the Patriots\u2019 turnaround after back-to-back 4-13 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike everybody, I\u2019m surprised they made the Super Bowl,\u201d the 62-year-old Maye told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/scott-fowler\/article314491227.html\" id=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/scott-fowler\/article314491227.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Fowler of the Charlotte News and Observer<\/a>. \u201cNow I thought they\u2019d be better than what people were expecting. I\u2019m a little more optimistic \u2014 maybe a little biased \u2014 about all of my kids\u2019 teams and always have been. Honestly, it wouldn\u2019t have surprised me for them to make the playoffs. But to make the Super Bowl? That\u2019s pretty tough to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The elder Maye, who also played college football at the University of North Carolina, added that New England is \u201cfortunate\u201d to have advanced through the first three rounds of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>He specifically referenced the Patriots\u2019 10-7 win over the Denver Broncos <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/01\/patriots-make-jaw-dropping-nfl-history-with-afc-championship-game-win-vs-broncos\/\" id=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/01\/patriots-make-jaw-dropping-nfl-history-with-afc-championship-game-win-vs-broncos\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in the AFC Championship Game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re fortunate,\u201d Maye said, according to Fowler\u2019s report. \u201cThat one wasn\u2019t pretty Sunday. All of the boys and I used to say, \u2018We don\u2019t care if we win 3-2 or 50-49.\u2019 Well, that one was almost 3-2.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New England Patriots\u2019 run to Super Bowl LX has shocked the NFL world. Patriots quarterback Drake Maye\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2050],"tags":[833,7,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208,16165],"class_list":{"0":"post-720887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-drake-maye","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-new-england","11":"tag-new-england-patriots","12":"tag-newengland","13":"tag-newenglandpatriots","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-patriots","16":"tag-super-bowl-lx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115994033209243036","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720887","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=720887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}