The Patriots and Colts held a competitive joint practice on the fields behind Gillette Stadium that was a good day’s work for two AFC playoff contenders.<\/p>\n
After completing several downfield passes that were vintage Drake Maye, the Colts defense got the last laugh by intercepting Maye in the final two-minute period in the end zone. The end of practice will serve as a coaching moment for Mike Vrabel and Josh McDaniels with their young quarterback, with Maye taking ownership of the mistake while speaking to reporters following Tuesday’s two-plus-hour joint session with Indianapolis.<\/p>\n
However, the positive takeaway was that Maye hit on several deep completions to multiple receivers in an explosive day for the passing offense. Maye beat a pressure scheme with a pretty go-ball to WR Romeo Doubs down the left sideline. He hit his two tight ends, Hunter Henry and Eli Raridon, for chunk plays off play-action passes. And star WR A.J. Brown had a big-gainer on a deep pass into the cover-two hole.<\/p>\n
Maye also had a red-zone sequence where he threw three touchdowns in four plays to Doubs (out), WR Kayshon Boutte (slant), and beat a blitz by lofting a perfectly weighted ball off his back foot to RB Rhamondre Stevenson, who ran past a Colts linebacker from out of the backfield. At that point, Tuesday’s headline for Maye would’ve read that the third-year quarterback was in complete control vs. the Colts, but it was the interception in the final two-minute drill that was top of mind for Maye at the podium after practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Patriots and Colts held a competitive joint practice on the fields behind Gillette Stadium that was a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":970629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[90,7,1263,1264,6,42964],"class_list":["post-970628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-analysis","tag-football","tag-hp-article","tag-hp-featured","tag-nfl","tag-training-camp-feature"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117079234578403011","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970628","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=970628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/970629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}