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[PATS16N0]

It really feels awesome to be just five years removed from Brady, and past Belichick, and have lost a near entire draft with Mayo, and now be at the top of the AFC East with the most promising future in the Division. Down here in Florida I’m surrounded by Dolphin fans and Bills-fan-transplants and I can promise you neither are thrilled this is very blatantly where we are.

Jets fan I talked to Thursday told me he “doesn’t actually hate Drake Maye yet” so he’s “going to pre-emptively start hating him before he actually does in case he starts winning serious games.”

Jets fans and Dolphin fans especially thought we were spending thirty years in post-Dynasty hell and that they were destined to get the next turn with a super star quarterback to abuse us with.

 

[PATS16N0]

If we close Allen’s window and start abusing the Jets and Dolphins routinely after what they just went through, that will be legendary.

 

[PATS16N0]

From what I’ve seen though, Drake Maye > Josh Allen. Drake Maye made one of the most amazing plays I’ve ever seen against the Titans. If he’s going to start doing that shit in playoff games and division games, the AFC East is fucked.

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This play from Drake Maye was CRAZY 🤯

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[PATS16N0]

Drake Maye has some serious potential to be the second greatest quarterback in Patriot history. It might even be his likely trajectory.

What a shit show scenario for the rest of the Division.

Really try to imagine what it must have been like to get dominated by Brady’s jawline for 20+ years while also watching him dominate others, and then go straight into this. Long term, stable, trustworthy coaching situation, and a QB whose floor is better than Drew Bledsoe.

 

[PATS16N0]

Anyway I’m amped for tomorrows game lol

 

[PATS16N0]

Drake Maye needs to start compiling a vanquished-list. He’s gotta dish losses to Herbert, Mahomes, Allen again, etc etc.

Needs to get that Rodgers loss back in the post season.

I really hope we get to bounce the Colts too

Trouncing the Colts in Gillette than beating the Steelers in the game that decides which team goes and plays for its #7 isn’t toppable by the new era.

 

[Deus Irae]

If we close Allen’s window and start abusing the Jets and Dolphins routinely after what they just went through, that will be legendary.

Allen's window will be open for years to come, still

 

[Beers]

Drake Maye has some serious potential to be the second greatest quarterback in Patriot history. It might even be his likely trajectory.

What a shit show scenario for the rest of the Division.

Really try to imagine what it must have been like to get dominated by Brady’s jawline for 20+ years while also watching him dominate others, and then go straight into this. Long term, stable, trustworthy coaching situation, and a QB whose floor is better than Drew Bledsoe.

Maye's talent level is as high as any other QB in the league, his ceiling is the best QB. Now weather he has the mental side, the longevity, and a quality team around him for the duration of his career, that is a different question.

 

[Beers]

Allen's window will be open for years to come, still

No doubt, but the team is at a disadvantage simply because he's on his second contract... which is massive. That will of course level off in a couple years when we need to extend Maye.

 

[Deus Irae]

No doubt, but the team is at a disadvantage simply because he's on his second contract... which is massive. That will of course level off in a couple years when we need to extend Maye.

I absolutely hear what you're saying, and I fully agree with the general principle, but I think we've all got that a little bit wrong now. I mean, it used to be clearly true, when the huge money jumps were starting. But, today, with the top half (16) of starting QBs all at $40m or more, that disadvantage isn't really the tremendous gap that people still think it is, for the most part. $20m/year is not nothing, of course, but the big money disadvantage today seems more about a bad QB signing than a general rule. Paying Allen $60m is one thing, while paying Trevor Lawrence $55m is another. Realistically, the way the money's gone up for so many positions, we're theoretically only talking about a 1 player difference, if that, if we're talking a high end signing.

If your team can't draft depth players or find a bunch of diamonds in the rough, that $20m/year can still be huge, of course. But Buffalo's problems seem, at least to me, to be more about injuriy to high-end signings (particularly Milano).