After NBC Sports activities Boston’s Michael Holley stated he “noticed the ghost of Mac Jones” when he watched Drake Maye in Patriots coaching camp on Wednesday, Colin Cowherd of “The Herd” doubled down on the evaluation and even had an outlandish take that Joe Milton III would begin over New England’s first-round draft choose.
“There’s one other story that Joe Milton … that Milton has a wow issue,” Cowherd stated on his present Thursday. “Huge, stronger arm than Maye. Extra athletic than Maye and all people’s trying and pondering, is the sixth-round man higher than the first-round man?”
That is all after only one week of Patriots coaching camp and solely a pair days of padded apply. And if that wasn’t sufficient, Cowherd additionally downplayed New England’s offensive success in the course of the Tom Brady period.
“Take out the Randy Moss years, three years; even with Brady, (Rob Gronkowski) and (Julian) Edelman and no Moss … New England was by no means an offensive tradition,” he stated. “It was briefly with Randy Moss, but it surely was, ‘Do your job,’ sacrifice for the crew, even a paycheck. It was by no means a corporation of offensive creativity. Abundance. Pleasure. That is Kansas Metropolis. That is San Francisco. That is the Rams. Generally it is Philadelphia. It is not New England.”
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Cowherd expanded, saying the Patriots, with Brady, went to 9 Tremendous Bowls with the legendary quarterback and did not rating one landing within the first quarter. The rationale? In line with Cowherd, New England was a crew that wished to play it protected and out-coach its opponents.
“So Drake Maye comes into a corporation … they do not know offense. (It) is a defensive tradition,” Cowherd stated. “They rent Jerod Mayo, who’s (Invoice) Belichick. Mantras, phrases, perception techniques. So this was at all times going to be the hardest raise for any of those quarterbacks.”
“The sixth-round quarterback Joe Milton goes to most likely win the job as a result of he is the athlete,” Cowherd stated. “He is the larger, stronger, quicker, extra dynamic athlete and so they have no at extensive receiver, tight finish or working again.”
Cowherd added: “I do not suppose I am overreacting. I feel while you take a look at the historic tradition of New England, after which they principally rent Belichick’s favourite man, and Belichick’s man is a defensive man. … While you enter a defensive tradition, the place they simply employed one other defensive coach, they haven’t any playmakers. Do not be shocked if Joe Milton wins this job or will get loads of snaps this 12 months.”
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Mayo has already made it clear that Jacoby Brissett would be the Patriots’ beginning quarterback come Week 1, so did Cowherd simply give Maye and the remainder of the Patriots offense all of the motivation they want this season?
