Drake Maye is taking full accountability for the New England Patriots’ brutal loss Wednesday against the Seattle Seahawks.
The Patriots looked like they had been handed a free win when Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold went down with an injury just five plays into the clash at Lumen Field in Seattle, Wash. Maye did just enough to get his team a 10-0 lead late in the third quarter.
Maye went on to throw an interception on each of New England’s final three possessions, flipping the result to a 13-10 Seattle win.
After the game, Maye had nobody to blame but himself for the backbreaking turnovers that cost the Patriots a season-opening victory.
“Yeah, we had the game under control,” Maye told reporters. “Thought we had a good plan to start chipping away and be patient and lost patience and it cost us, decisions that cost us the game on my part, on my end.
“I vow to myself to be better and realize it’s a long season, but at same time, we can’t have those. We can’t have those. It’s unacceptable, and I know we got to get back to work. That wasn’t how I play football and how I want to represent my game and playing quarterback for the Patriots.”
Maye went 23/33 for 178 yards, a touchdown, and 3 interceptions.
Rather than silencing his critics following his lackluster Super Bowl performance in February, Maye became the butt of every joke, at least until the Los Angeles Rams embarrassed themselves even worse in Melbourne.
