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The Next Pats Podcast - A Patriots Podcast

Coverage reads vs. Pure progressions: Why Drake Maye and Josh McDaniels are THRIVING

The Next Pats Podcast - A Patriots Podcast

NBC Sports Boston

News, Sports News, Jerod Mayo, Nfl Draft, Football, Ja'lynn Polk, 2024 Nfl Draft, Phil Perry, New England Patriots, Nbc Sports Network, Drake Maye, Nfl, Nbc Sports Boston, Sports

4.8558 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Phil Perry talks with Brian Hoyer to get his thoughts and insight on the offense Josh McDaniels runs, and how it differs from other styles around the NFL. What has been the key to Drake Maye thriving in this offense?

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up everybody?

0:10.6

Welcome into the NextPats podcast, a very special edition of Next

0:14.5

Pass this week because we are diving deep on what it takes to play the quarterback

0:18.8

position.

0:19.7

And diving deep specifically on what

0:21.5

Drake May is seeing in his second year as a pro, his first year in this Josh McDaniels system.

0:26.9

Thought to be a very complex and complicated system.

0:29.4

And yet, Drake May is thriving, named as one of the AFC's three pro bowlers this year.

0:34.9

So how is he doing it?

0:36.2

What is he seeing before the snap, after the snap?

0:38.6

How is Josh McDaniels coaching him? Well, today we have someone who can tell us all of those things.

0:44.1

He's actually been enough in the way of NFL systems that he can tell us the difference between

0:49.1

the system that Drake May is experiencing now with Josh McDaniels and the one he experienced

0:53.8

last year, much more of a

0:55.0

West Coast system with the Alex Van Pelt offense. And our guest is Brian Hoyer. Let's welcome him in

1:00.4

right now. Brian, thanks so much for being with us here on NextPats. I know this conversation is near

1:05.6

and dear to your heart, how to play the quarterback position, the best way to coach the quarterback position.

1:11.5

And you've seen so many different styles of offense. And you've heard from so many different coaches that you are the perfect guess for this chat. Hey, I appreciate it. No, we were talking at pre and post game the other day, the show. And we were just saying, like, if we want to do this, let's do it right. So I'm glad we get to do it in this long form look I've

1:28.0

played in there's three tree tree offensive trees right there's the the west coast the bill

1:32.5

walsh the air coriol and then there's the air heart perkins system which has developed into that

1:37.3

patriot's offense and I would say of those systems it's one of the ones that is probably

1:41.6

least used because that tree has just not expanded the way that

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