UNC's Drake Maye Criticized by Micah Parsons After Brutal Showing Against Packers

Former North Carolina star quarterback Drake Maye hasn't played the kind of football many expected of him entering the year for the New England Patriots. 

There was clear hope that Maye and the Patriots would once again be one of the better teams in the NFL, but the harsh reality is that New England just hasn't been great this year. 

Not to say that the Patriots have been one of the worst teams in the NFL, but currently sitting at 5-4 overall, they need to play a lot better, and a lot of that falls on what Maye has done throughout the year. 

On the season, Maye struggled a ton to start the year. He played a bit better throughout the middle of October but still has just 2,282 yards, 18 touchdowns, and a rough 11 interceptions. 

The interception problem has been something that he has to figure out, and it looked like he was throughout October. However, Maye recently threw three interceptions against the Green Bay Packers in a game that New England got absolutely embarrassed in. That was without the Packers having star edge rusher Micah Parsons, who they landed from the Dallas Cowboys an offseason ago.

In regard to how Parsons has felt Maye looks, he had some very interesting comments to make about the Super Bowl runner-up quarterback. He said that he believes he lost his confidence as the struggles continue.

"I think Drake Maye has lost confidence," Parsons said, PFSN. "That's the difficult part that I think everyone battles with. I've seen it with Dak (Prescott), I think my second or third year. You see it with young quarterbacks. When mistakes and wins don't come early, they kind of lose that confidence and belief in others. I don't see him trusting people the same way he was last year. He don't look like the same quarterback as last year, you know.

"He's gone from potentially MVP to the struggle bus. I just think it all has to do with his confidence. Like last year, you see him breaking out the pockets, picking up the blitzes, rolling right, making dots down the field, you know, it's spectacular catches, but it's just that they looked way more united last year on a Super Bowl run than they do currently."

I don't think Maye has lost his confidence, as he showed us even at North Carolina that he can win games at a very high level and be the quarterback that teams expect him to be. 

But I do think there are some questions about what the Patriots have in that wide receiver room. With AJ Brown injured and not many other great receivers who can make big-time plays to throw the football to, Maye finds himself in a somewhat weird position.

He was able to play at a very high level last season despite the wide receiver room not being great up in New England, so it is interesting that he is struggling this year with a somewhat similar group.