{"id":741575,"date":"2026-02-10T01:59:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/741575\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T01:59:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:59:29","slug":"former-patriots-champion-assigns-blame-for-super-bowl-lx-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/741575\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Patriots Champion Assigns Blame For Super Bowl LX Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The quarterback often gets an oversized share of the credit or blame, but a former New England Patriots player wouldn\u2019t fully fault Drake Maye for Sunday\u2019s Super Bowl loss.<\/p>\n<p>Maye didn\u2019t make the most of his marquee moment, yielding <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/02\/patriots-drake-maye-ends-nightmare-super-bowl-on-historic-high-note\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">three turnovers<\/a> in a 29-13 loss to the Seattle Seahawks. The 23-year-old has taken some criticism for the sloppy performance, and Devin McCourty noted on \u201cUp &amp; Adams\u201d that Maye missed some open throws and didn\u2019t exploit all of his running opportunities. <\/p>\n<p>However, the three-time Super Bowl champion also explained why the coaching staff <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UpAndAdamsShow\/status\/2020954772539691280\" rel=\"nofollow\">deserves some blame<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of that, to me, fell on the coaches and game-plan oriented,\u201d McCourty said. \u201cBecause they couldn\u2019t do anything. They couldn\u2019t run the football. Drake Maye didn\u2019t have much time when he was dropping back. There weren\u2019t guys open.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCourty recalled times during his 13-year playing career in New England when the defense couldn\u2019t make a stop despite the coaching staff calling multiple different looks. On the other hand, he didn\u2019t feel like <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/02\/star-safety-explains-why-seahawks-defense-was-so-confident-playing-patriots-at-super-bowl-lx\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New England\u2019s offense<\/a> got creative enough on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt felt like last night, as you watched the game, like they didn\u2019t call everything,\u201d McCourty said. \u201cNow I\u2019m assuming there\u2019s reasons for that \u2026 But watching it, it felt like Drake Maye needed a lot more help from the sidelines than what he got that game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCourty thinks Maye has the mental makeup to rebound from the rough Super Bowl outing. But the two-time Pro Bowler wouldn\u2019t let anyone off the hook after Sunday\u2019s showing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you come out and get punched in the mouth the way they did, you get flustered. And that\u2019s what the game looked like through the majority of it,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen you don\u2019t score a point in three quarters, there\u2019s enough blame to go around for every coach and player, and that\u2019s on the offensive side of the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The quarterback often gets an oversized share of the credit or blame, but a former New England Patriots&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[12292,7,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":["post-741575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-england-patriots","tag-devin-mccourty","tag-football","tag-new-england","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-newengland","tag-newenglandpatriots","tag-nfl","tag-patriots"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116043865539503333","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741575","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=741575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}