Jones & Keefe: Are the Patriots redshirting Drake Maye?
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00:00And I hear this a lot, Nienkiewicz was on this morning with the Greg Hill Show.
00:03Well, you can't play Drake May until the situation's right for him.
00:07So, I got news for you, Walter Cronkite, it'll never be good for him.
00:11Well, that's right.
00:11So the follow-up question to me, and it's an obvious one, is, okay, if the situation
00:19isn't right all year, can you play Drake May?
00:22Does that mean you won't play him all year if the situation never gets right?
00:25And it's probably never going to be right.
00:27But it's mixed messaging by the team, too, because he is the backup.
00:31He is the guy that would go in if something happened to Percet.
00:35We just saw David Andrews get hurt.
00:37We feel like Jacoby Percet gets hurt every game.
00:39He hasn't gotten injured yet, but he gets hurt every game.
00:42So at some point, you're going to have to take over.
00:44He also played the final series against the Jets a couple of weeks ago.
00:48So you put him on the field, you put him in harm's way, and now you can't play him,
00:53but you might have to at some point.
00:56So yeah, it's all over the map.
00:57And at no point was in-season did we think the offensive line was going to get drastically
01:01better.
01:02Put a percentage on it, Keefe.
01:03I asked you to do this yesterday with Swayman.
01:05You said 50-50 on a Swayman trade.
01:07Yep, I went on a ledge.
01:08I put you—no, no, no, I think—but that was a higher number than I was going to say.
01:12I think I was bold.
01:12Don't sell yourself short there.
01:14But I like putting Keefe in the hot seat here.
01:16Hot under those lights, eh, Keefe?
01:19Put a percentage on it.
01:20What's the percentage Drake May does not start a game this year?
01:24I would say doesn't play, but he already played against the Jets.
01:27What's a percentage he doesn't play this year as a starting quarterback?
01:30So this is going to shock you.
01:31I think it's actually zero.
01:32It's still zero.
01:33I think—yeah, that he doesn't start a game all year.
01:36I think it's zero because—I'm going to put like 5% on it now.
01:39All right, so you're giving it all a chance.
01:41But I would have said, prior to the Andrews injury and prior to them being so adamant
01:46about sticking with May this week, I would have said zero coming into this week.
01:49Now I'm up to like 5%.
01:50But you're also saying—that's movement.
01:52But right now, they haven't added anybody else to the roster that would play.
01:55He's not going to—they're not going to go Joe Milton leapfrog over Drake May, right?
01:59So if something happens to Brissette—basically what you're saying is there's only a 5% chance.
02:03Let me change the question.
02:04If Brissette stays healthy, is there a chance that Drake May does not play this year?
02:09I think yes.
02:11I don't think they're going to—it's such a long season.
02:14It is.
02:14I think eventually they'll bench Brissette.
02:16But I have moved off it being zero percent that May's going to sit the whole year.