Former All-Pro Issues Encouraging Drake Maye Take After Super Bowl LX

The New England Patriots suffered a 29-13 defeat in Super Bowl LX vs. the Seattle Seahawks, and while there were several notable issues for the Pats in this game, perhaps the biggest of the bunch was the fact that quarterback Drake Maye struggled yet again in the postseason.

After dominating in the regular season, Maye did not look like himself in the playoffs. Granted, he played against four of the top defenses in the NFL and was battling a shoulder injury, but Maye and the rest of the offense went out with a whimper in the Super Bowl.

In the wake of this defeat, folks have debated about Maye’s future in the NFL. While some people believe that Maye simply coasted on the back of a historically easy schedule, former All-Pro fullback Marcel Reece thinks this loss will be a great learning experience for the second-year quarterback and the rest of the team.

“Drake Maye, he’s going to be a very good quarterback for a long time,” Reece said in an interview with casino.us. “That being said, the Super Bowl will have been a learning curve for Drake Maye and that offense.

It’s going to be a good learning experience for Maye. I think Josh McDaniels is going to have a lot of fun this offseason teaching Maye how to see certain pressures and manipulate defenses, even in pre-step at the line of scrimmage, because it was happening to him instead of him doing it to them in the Super Bowl.”

It’s important to remember in the wake of this defeat just how far ahead of schedule the Patriots are. Sure, they came up short in the Super Bowl, but they weren’t even expected to make the playoffs this season. And while things broke their way throughout the year, that doesn’t make their staggering turnaround any less impressive.

However, this loss proved that while this team is capable of winning a Super Bowl with Maye at the helm, there’s still a lot of work that needs to be done over the offseason. As a result, the work the Patriots put in during the next few months will be crucial to ensuring they can build off of this breakout campaign in 2026.