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Don’t you wish all these bitter QBs would get off Drake Maye?
Have you ever heard of Shaun King, the 47-year-old former NFL QB who had a cup of coffee with four teams over seven seasons? King played at powerhouse Tulane after Mack Brown coached there. Brown ought to tell the former Green Waver to get out of the blogging pool before he chokes on his own BS.
The caustic King is the latest of some who are still ripping Maye, the Tar Heel star who was only the No. 3 pick in the draft by the Patriots. King is by far not the first to diss Maye, but he truly shows his ignorance by saying Drake isn’t even a first-round draft pick.
Whaaaaat???
So King knows more than the 31 other NFL teams that, he says, should have passed on Maye and dropped him to the second round like some gridiron Kyle Filipowski. The 32 teams in the NFL have massive coaching, statistical and scouting staffs, using everything from veteran eyeballs to today’s analytics to evaluate talent. This is big-time Moneyball.
One such bungling blogger dismissed Brown for predicting future Super Bowls for Maye because he is a college coach with ZERO championships. This guy must not be of legal drinking age since he clearly doesn’t remember Brown’s undefeated 2005 Texas team winning the Natty by beating USC in the BCS championship game.
Who are these guys, anyway, who have infiltrated themselves into every debate from politics to poppycock? And all the news feeds think they need to post everything!
Shaun King has taken up sports commentary since last holding a college coaching role in 2019, where he was the running backs coach for USF. (Photo via the University of South Florida Athletics Department.)
Maye brought on opinions before the draft and they haven’t stopped coming despite getting mostly good grades from media watching summer practice outside of Boston. Sure, Maye probably won’t start the Pats first game and maybe none at all as a 21-year-old because Jacoby Brissett will beat him out.
Just like Alex Smith started for the Chiefs while Patrick Mahomes languished on the bench because he wasn’t quite ready yet. And Mahomes has only turned onto the best QB in the league, if not history, when he was ready.
Bloggers and long-time back-up quarterbacks say Maye didn’t have a great 2023 season after being ACC Player/Rookie of the Year in 2022. Sure that had nothing to do with a weakened supporting cast and bad coaching. Even Brown said he knew his Tar Heels would “get killed” at NC State and in the Duke Mayo Bowl against West Virginia.
Here’s an idea: Why doesn’t the blogger sphere, which is more infantile than informed, wait to see what Maye does when gets into a game. In this age of people trying to be influencers and turning out to be ignoramuses, the summers are filled with slow news days.
I should know. I wasted this column on a subject that doesn’t deserve it.
Featured photo via AP Photo/Jeff Roberson.
Art Chansky is a veteran journalist who has written ten books, including best-sellers “Game Changers,” “Blue Bloods,” and “The Dean’s List.” He has contributed to WCHL for decades, having made his first appearance as a student in 1971. His “Sports Notebook” commentary airs daily on the 97.9 The Hill WCHL and his “Art’s Angle” opinion column runs weekly on Chapelboro.Chapelboro.com does not charge subscription fees, and you can directly support our efforts in local journalism here. Want more of what you see on Chapelboro? Let us bring free local news and community information to you by signing up for our newsletter.
Maye will be fine, because he has the talent and the work ethic to succeed.