December 10, 2025 • 9 mins
Patriots quarterback Drake Maye addresses the media on Wednesday, December 10, 2025.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Going on how you're doing good?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
That's a really question. What's than your favorite item of baking?
Speaker 1 (00:05):
That's step far. Oh jeez. Uh favorite item of bank
was probably yesterday she just mass some peppermint chocolates and cookies.
That was probably my favorite. I know you you trained
with Philip favorite uh beauty. Yeah, what's your reaction with
going back? I think it's awesome. I think it's it's
pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Uh when we were, you know, down there, I did
draft fanmobile and he uh lives around there somewhere, and
I think, you know, the biggest thing he's still those
are good. I mean I was shoot two two springs ago,
so that the last one one before he was slinging
it good. So you know, what a what a quarterback,
what a competitor. He's an ultimate competitor. And I'm sure
(00:47):
he knows the offense well and I'm sure still slings
are great. So uh saw a little bit of his
press commerce. I was pretty funny. But no, at least
she like a great guy, and when I was around him,
he's been great to me. So it's a pretty cool
something like that, you know, whatever happens there. But it's
pretty sweet be.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Doing this when you're forty four.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Uh shoot, if I'm moving around a little bit still,
I hope. So we'll play as long as I can.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Up to step in the Blacker room and Nasty Black
being under dog going the end of this game.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I guess you guys wanted to have under dogs.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
He's taking play put you see about it. Yeah, I
think it's.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Any time you're at home and you're an underdog, it's
you do something to play for a little bit. And
I think you're really were worried about, you know, the whatever,
the underdog and whatever they set the line at you.
It's us first thing regardless of and we put the
ball down, its gonna be zero zero for sixty minutes.
We know we got to play a full game. So
we have some great players over there. We had some good,
great coaches and they've won the division for for five years.
(01:40):
So we got something that you know, we need to
go take and you know it's gonna be hard to do,
but you'll work for it.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Pops are just the mat too. I'll think game of
what is actually, Yeah, you know we we've played them before.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
You know, we have a really third time playing them,
so I know it's you know, it's a rivalry really,
and I know that you know Buffalo and you know
we got in my at home this time, so it'll
be nice to you know, playing front our home fans.
I know they'll be into it, get a little I'm
sure some some nice weather for the for the game,
whether it's snowing or a little bit of rain or
some football weather.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
So looking forward to that.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I know it's gonna be a big challenge, big game,
And like I said, I think the biggest thing is
it's another Sunday at one o'clock we're playing, So you're
not trying to make it, you know, too big. But
anytime you're a division pponent, like I said, a little
bit extra.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Are you at the point in your career where you
face a Josh Allen or an Aaron Rodgers. You look
at it and say, that's a contemporary mind, and you
still sort of look at it, that's a guy I
watched growing up and tried to learn from when I
was developing as the quarterback.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
No, I think it's a little bit of both. I
think you're playing them as a competitor. You know you're
playing against you know, these guys that are the best
quarterbacks in the league. You want to compete with them,
you want to beat them, and you want to you'll
kind of match their you know, their level, but at
the same time, you still you want to take things
from them and realize you appreciate what they're doing for
the game, what they've done for their careers and the
players they are.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
And Josh is one of them.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
He's fun to watch and he's one of the best,
you know, if not the best in the game right now,
so he's playing a really high level. It's it's always
fun to watch and he's been good to me and
I appreciate what he's uh the reaships he's he's built
with me.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
You numbers against disguised coverage this year are really really good.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
And aside for film study and preparation, what's driving that
if they've just seeing a post nap.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I think it's one of the biggest things that you
you heard about from college, is your disguising coverage and
then flipping the rotation or starting rotation and going back.
I think it's good for me to see it from
our defense in the all training camp. I remember on
those days our defense is a great job and showing
down one side and bringing to and two blitzing two
off the other edge, some of the same stuff that
(03:43):
Buffalo does a really good disguising and just trying to
see that they have to go to what they're gonna play,
you know, at the end of the day, after the snap,
and just trying to you know, play fast and play
smart and just do my best to see a post
snap and make a decision.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
It's it been like getting to know Josh McDavis this
year's how much funy.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
So yeah, it's been awesome. I think he's, like I
said time before, he's coaches at a really high level.
He understands the game.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
But really his offense, you know, helps a quarterback, helps
me do my job and I try to do my
best to keep first downs and scoring drives going. So
can he can help through. I can help him do
his job. But he he understands the game. He understands,
you know, defense, what they try to do. He understands,
you know, what we have on our offense and our
players are personnelity does you know, uses us to our
(04:27):
best ability. And it's it's been awesome this year and
I can't thank him enough for what he's done for
me and we still got a long way to go,
but he's a he's a he's a joy to be
around every day job.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
She's talked about how much he's improved throughout the season.
Stefan Giggs said that your match probus has been second
and nine. Where do you feel like the physical and
mental standpoint the biggest improvements of the season football?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
MM, I think just trying to make the right play.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I think that's kind of what I'm back there trying
to do every time, you know, with the football, try
to make the right play. I know I haven't done
that every time, and still, you know football, you know,
in harm rate Harm's way a few times. But my
job is, you know, try to protect the football and
get to the guys that are better running than I am,
and get us in the right plays and just trying
to make the right play and try to avoid negative ones.
So I think trying to make the right play and
(05:13):
not force the downfield and force the downfield when I
need to, or take a shot when I need to.
Just balancing that and kind of find the balance of
staying aggressive but also staying you're protecting the football. And
that's what I feel like, coach, you know, variable preachosing
that's what he wants from from his quarterback, and I'm
trying to.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
You know, buy into that, and I feel like we
can steal errors to improved.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
But that's one of the biggest things I've tried to
work on and buy into, is you know, making the
right play and take a chance when I need to
and being smart.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
One here the plays that.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
For a bull void.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I appreciate it. The fans.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
The fans are awesome here hopefully around the country. Patriots
fans are all over the country you see and away games,
you know, we travel great. They've been great to me.
Like I said, they embraced me from from the south
over with a southern accent, not like Will's. But uh no,
I think, like I said, we try to give something
that you're for and they're doing that, and uh yeah,
we're doing our part. And they've been you know, showing
up and looking forward to another home one and j
let this weekend.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Do you think you're able to kind of I know
you want to be consistent week after week at week,
but do you think, depending on circumstances in states that
you're able to raise the level of your game?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I think the great ones do, and I think I
got to you continue to try to prove that, you know,
played in in maybe one or two maybe prime time,
you know, matchups or matchups with you against great quarterbacks
or great defenses. So that's something I continue to prove
every week. And that's not something that I can just say,
you know, I hope I do. You know, I hope
I do every time. But it's something you've got to
prove and go out there and play and show that
(06:42):
to my teammates, show that to this team, so that
to this organization. And you know, I believe in myself
and you believe I can do it. But it's something
that you don't really just I think you can say
you can know that you've got to go out there
and do it, and you'll say that about you.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
You posted a video while back, and what are your
first spot beating for click rabels laying out the goals.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Through the season win the division was at the top.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Understanding Buffalo has been at the top of the division
five s three years.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
How much of it all this year? Have you personally
felt like you're chasing them in that respect? To you
get to your yeah, we are chasing them. They've had
a bulls eye on their back for you know, really
since they probably took it over the first year. You
want to be division jamps, you know.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Coach said, like at the beginning of the year, like
you said, you win a division, and everybody says everybody
probably says that around the league in their own you know,
first squad meeting, you want to put the division. But
it's pretty cool that's come to your reality or here
you know, standing right here with the chance to do
that this week, and people talk about things down the
line and what you can do, but this is a
grab tune for us to go win a division and
(07:40):
you'll wrack up the AFC East. So we know it's
gonna be tough, and we had a great team coming
in here and be cool to do on our home turf.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
He's been a lot of comparis between you and Josh.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
How do you feel about Kmarison point?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I think it just gives you guys something to talk about,
something to hopefully hopefully this guy turns with this guy.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
If he doesn't some other guy or some other things.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
So I think one of the biggest thing Coach Rabel
says is, you know, don't try to compare set expectations,
but you're honored if if the comparison is there with Josh,
you know, honored to be compared to a guy like
him at his level. I think I'm a far long
ways away from playing like him. And he's uh, Like
I said, you know, the best in the game, and
I'm looking forward to another matchup.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You know, we meet versus.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Is it for you guys to finish the job this
week and that prolong it or give them money?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah, that's a great question. I think it's it's important.
I think it's really important to do it here. You
do all I have a chance to, you know, face
them at the head. I mean, there's no better way
to win the division than you win the team that's
fighting to crawl back and to take the division and
keep the keep them as a Vision champs. So it's
up to you for us to do it here, do
it verse to him and not have it kind of
(08:51):
what they say, when you have it in your own hands,
we have whatever the phrase they say it again, Yeah,
controlier and destiny. That's what we have a chance to
do it here, and I know we can do it
down the road. But you know why I do it
this weekend at home with division opponent coming in that
that plays at a high level and looking forward to
be in front of the fans and gather our teammates.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
And it's fun to play. It's fun to play these
type of games.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
That's what you that's what you know. Strap up, trap
up your helmet and playing the Sholder pads for thank you.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
It's great.
Going on how you're doing good?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
That's a really question. What's than your favorite item of baking?
Speaker 1 (00:05):
That's step far. Oh jeez. Uh favorite item of bank
was probably yesterday she just mass some peppermint chocolates and cookies.
That was probably my favorite. I know you you trained
with Philip favorite uh beauty. Yeah, what's your reaction with
going back? I think it's awesome. I think it's it's
pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Uh when we were, you know, down there, I did
draft fanmobile and he uh lives around there somewhere, and
I think, you know, the biggest thing he's still those
are good. I mean I was shoot two two springs ago,
so that the last one one before he was slinging
it good. So you know, what a what a quarterback,
what a competitor. He's an ultimate competitor. And I'm sure
(00:47):
he knows the offense well and I'm sure still slings
are great. So uh saw a little bit of his
press commerce. I was pretty funny. But no, at least
she like a great guy, and when I was around him,
he's been great to me. So it's a pretty cool
something like that, you know, whatever happens there. But it's
pretty sweet be.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Doing this when you're forty four.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Uh shoot, if I'm moving around a little bit still,
I hope. So we'll play as long as I can.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Up to step in the Blacker room and Nasty Black
being under dog going the end of this game.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I guess you guys wanted to have under dogs.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
He's taking play put you see about it. Yeah, I
think it's.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Any time you're at home and you're an underdog, it's
you do something to play for a little bit. And
I think you're really were worried about, you know, the whatever,
the underdog and whatever they set the line at you.
It's us first thing regardless of and we put the
ball down, its gonna be zero zero for sixty minutes.
We know we got to play a full game. So
we have some great players over there. We had some good,
great coaches and they've won the division for for five years.
(01:40):
So we got something that you know, we need to
go take and you know it's gonna be hard to do,
but you'll work for it.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Pops are just the mat too. I'll think game of
what is actually, Yeah, you know we we've played them before.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
You know, we have a really third time playing them,
so I know it's you know, it's a rivalry really,
and I know that you know Buffalo and you know
we got in my at home this time, so it'll
be nice to you know, playing front our home fans.
I know they'll be into it, get a little I'm
sure some some nice weather for the for the game,
whether it's snowing or a little bit of rain or
some football weather.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
So looking forward to that.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I know it's gonna be a big challenge, big game,
And like I said, I think the biggest thing is
it's another Sunday at one o'clock we're playing, So you're
not trying to make it, you know, too big. But
anytime you're a division pponent, like I said, a little
bit extra.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Are you at the point in your career where you
face a Josh Allen or an Aaron Rodgers. You look
at it and say, that's a contemporary mind, and you
still sort of look at it, that's a guy I
watched growing up and tried to learn from when I
was developing as the quarterback.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
No, I think it's a little bit of both. I
think you're playing them as a competitor. You know you're
playing against you know, these guys that are the best
quarterbacks in the league. You want to compete with them,
you want to beat them, and you want to you'll
kind of match their you know, their level, but at
the same time, you still you want to take things
from them and realize you appreciate what they're doing for
the game, what they've done for their careers and the
players they are.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
And Josh is one of them.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
He's fun to watch and he's one of the best,
you know, if not the best in the game right now,
so he's playing a really high level. It's it's always
fun to watch and he's been good to me and
I appreciate what he's uh the reaships he's he's built
with me.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
You numbers against disguised coverage this year are really really good.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
And aside for film study and preparation, what's driving that
if they've just seeing a post nap.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I think it's one of the biggest things that you
you heard about from college, is your disguising coverage and
then flipping the rotation or starting rotation and going back.
I think it's good for me to see it from
our defense in the all training camp. I remember on
those days our defense is a great job and showing
down one side and bringing to and two blitzing two
off the other edge, some of the same stuff that
(03:43):
Buffalo does a really good disguising and just trying to
see that they have to go to what they're gonna play,
you know, at the end of the day, after the snap,
and just trying to you know, play fast and play
smart and just do my best to see a post
snap and make a decision.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
It's it been like getting to know Josh McDavis this
year's how much funy.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
So yeah, it's been awesome. I think he's, like I
said time before, he's coaches at a really high level.
He understands the game.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
But really his offense, you know, helps a quarterback, helps
me do my job and I try to do my
best to keep first downs and scoring drives going. So
can he can help through. I can help him do
his job. But he he understands the game. He understands,
you know, defense, what they try to do. He understands,
you know, what we have on our offense and our
players are personnelity does you know, uses us to our
(04:27):
best ability. And it's it's been awesome this year and
I can't thank him enough for what he's done for
me and we still got a long way to go,
but he's a he's a he's a joy to be
around every day job.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
She's talked about how much he's improved throughout the season.
Stefan Giggs said that your match probus has been second
and nine. Where do you feel like the physical and
mental standpoint the biggest improvements of the season football?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
MM, I think just trying to make the right play.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I think that's kind of what I'm back there trying
to do every time, you know, with the football, try
to make the right play. I know I haven't done
that every time, and still, you know football, you know,
in harm rate Harm's way a few times. But my
job is, you know, try to protect the football and
get to the guys that are better running than I am,
and get us in the right plays and just trying
to make the right play and try to avoid negative ones.
So I think trying to make the right play and
(05:13):
not force the downfield and force the downfield when I
need to, or take a shot when I need to.
Just balancing that and kind of find the balance of
staying aggressive but also staying you're protecting the football. And
that's what I feel like, coach, you know, variable preachosing
that's what he wants from from his quarterback, and I'm
trying to.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
You know, buy into that, and I feel like we
can steal errors to improved.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
But that's one of the biggest things I've tried to
work on and buy into, is you know, making the
right play and take a chance when I need to
and being smart.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
One here the plays that.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
For a bull void.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I appreciate it. The fans.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
The fans are awesome here hopefully around the country. Patriots
fans are all over the country you see and away games,
you know, we travel great. They've been great to me.
Like I said, they embraced me from from the south
over with a southern accent, not like Will's. But uh no,
I think, like I said, we try to give something
that you're for and they're doing that, and uh yeah,
we're doing our part. And they've been you know, showing
up and looking forward to another home one and j
let this weekend.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Do you think you're able to kind of I know
you want to be consistent week after week at week,
but do you think, depending on circumstances in states that
you're able to raise the level of your game?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I think the great ones do, and I think I
got to you continue to try to prove that, you know,
played in in maybe one or two maybe prime time,
you know, matchups or matchups with you against great quarterbacks
or great defenses. So that's something I continue to prove
every week. And that's not something that I can just say,
you know, I hope I do. You know, I hope
I do every time. But it's something you've got to
prove and go out there and play and show that
(06:42):
to my teammates, show that to this team, so that
to this organization. And you know, I believe in myself
and you believe I can do it. But it's something
that you don't really just I think you can say
you can know that you've got to go out there
and do it, and you'll say that about you.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
You posted a video while back, and what are your
first spot beating for click rabels laying out the goals.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Through the season win the division was at the top.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Understanding Buffalo has been at the top of the division
five s three years.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
How much of it all this year? Have you personally
felt like you're chasing them in that respect? To you
get to your yeah, we are chasing them. They've had
a bulls eye on their back for you know, really
since they probably took it over the first year. You
want to be division jamps, you know.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Coach said, like at the beginning of the year, like
you said, you win a division, and everybody says everybody
probably says that around the league in their own you know,
first squad meeting, you want to put the division. But
it's pretty cool that's come to your reality or here
you know, standing right here with the chance to do
that this week, and people talk about things down the
line and what you can do, but this is a
grab tune for us to go win a division and
(07:40):
you'll wrack up the AFC East. So we know it's
gonna be tough, and we had a great team coming
in here and be cool to do on our home turf.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
He's been a lot of comparis between you and Josh.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
How do you feel about Kmarison point?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I think it just gives you guys something to talk about,
something to hopefully hopefully this guy turns with this guy.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
If he doesn't some other guy or some other things.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
So I think one of the biggest thing Coach Rabel
says is, you know, don't try to compare set expectations,
but you're honored if if the comparison is there with Josh,
you know, honored to be compared to a guy like
him at his level. I think I'm a far long
ways away from playing like him. And he's uh, Like
I said, you know, the best in the game, and
I'm looking forward to another matchup.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You know, we meet versus.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Is it for you guys to finish the job this
week and that prolong it or give them money?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah, that's a great question. I think it's it's important.
I think it's really important to do it here. You
do all I have a chance to, you know, face
them at the head. I mean, there's no better way
to win the division than you win the team that's
fighting to crawl back and to take the division and
keep the keep them as a Vision champs. So it's
up to you for us to do it here, do
it verse to him and not have it kind of
(08:51):
what they say, when you have it in your own hands,
we have whatever the phrase they say it again, Yeah,
controlier and destiny. That's what we have a chance to
do it here, and I know we can do it
down the road. But you know why I do it
this weekend at home with division opponent coming in that
that plays at a high level and looking forward to
be in front of the fans and gather our teammates.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
And it's fun to play. It's fun to play these
type of games.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
That's what you that's what you know. Strap up, trap
up your helmet and playing the Sholder pads for thank you.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
It's great.
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