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Episode Date: September 15, 2025Patriots stun Dolphins with Drake Maye's clutch performance.Nick Cattles breaks down New England's impressive victory, highlighting Maye's game-changing plays and the team's evolving strategy. The dis...cussion covers the offensive line's solid pass protection, Maye's exceptional stats against the blitz, and how Josh McDaniels' tactics are reshaping the Patriots' offensive landscape. Key topics include New England's defensive improvements, the reduced roles of Pop Douglas and TreVeyon Henderson, and the impact of increased pre-snap motion.Don't miss this in-depth analysis of the Patriots' path to success. Will Maye's spectacular performance translate to sustained excellence for New England?Follow & Subscribe on all Podcast platforms…🎧 https://link.chtbl.com/LOPatriots?sid=YouTubeLocked On NFL League-Wide: Every Team, Fantasy, Draft & More🎧 https://linktr.ee/LockedOnNFL#patriots #newenglandpatriotsSupport Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!5-Hour ENERGYEnough with boring, flavorless caffeine, it’s time to give your caffeine a flavor upgrade with 5-hour ENERGY®️ shots. Get the favorites you love or be bold and try something new in-store and online at https://www.5hourENERGY.com or Amazon today. DoorDashWith DoorDash Streaks, you save every Saturday you order — stack it up all season and you could save up to $250. Order this Saturday. Keep the streak alive. Fuel your gameday — only with DoorDash. Terms apply. Promo period through 11/18.Monarch MoneyTake control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use code LOCKEDONNFL at https://monarchmoney.com/lockedonnfl for 50% off your first year.UpsideDon’t let this offer drive on by, download the free Upside app now using my limited time promo code TOUCHDOWN for a limited time 25 cent per gallon bonus! Offers vary by user and location, Go to upside.com for terms and conditions.Click Here to download the app: https://getupside.onelink.me/zlLr?af_xp=custom&pid=barrington&c=barrington_lockedon25&deep_link_value=promo&deep_link_sub1=lockedon25&af_dp=upsideapp%3A%2F%2FSquareTo learn more, go support your favorite neighborhood spot and see what Square has been up to in your neck of the woods. And then if you have extra time, check out https://square.com/go/lockedonnfl.PrizePicksDownload the PrizePicks app today and use code LOCKEDONNFL to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup.GametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONNFL for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Download Gametime today. What time is it? Gametime.FanDuelRight now, new customers can bet just FIVE dollars and if your bet wins—you’ll get THREE HUNDRED dollars in bonus bets to use across the app.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN)
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The Pats won in Miami because they followed through on one of Mike Brable's core tenants.
The big boys, they went to work.
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Coming up, some eye-opening numbers from Drake May's performance down in Miami that you do not want to miss.
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Everybody talks about explosive plays nowadays in the NFL.
It is 2025, explosive plays, scoring, scoring, scoring, explosive plays,
fantasy football, run with the overs if you're betting, all these different things.
And everybody loves the idea of explosive plays because they're sexy.
They're fun to watch.
And we talk about the skill position players on offense all the time.
We are obsessed with wide receivers and tight ends.
We're obsessed with statistics and how many touchdowns can this guy get?
How many yards did that guy get?
But there's an old, old, old football mentality that usually with,
wins out. And it's not just all about explosive plays. It's not about creating a show. It's about
winning in the trenches. And the Patriots won in Miami because they won in the trenches, especially
as that game went on. Let's start with the offensive line. The offensive line did their
job. And I said during the live post game right here on lockdown Patriots, I said that the
initial watch, watching it live, I felt like the past protection was solid.
It was pretty good.
And I'll tell you, looking back, rewatching the game, looking at some of the analytics, the pass protection was better than solid.
The past protection was really good.
Doug Kide from the Boston Herald posted the Patriots offensive line only allowed two pressures against the dolphins.
That's according to pro football focus.
Morgan Moses had one hurry against him.
Mike Owenu had one hurry against him.
that means according to pro football focus will campbell jared wilson garrett bradbury all had quote unquote clean sheets joseph pesteris posted the following week two offensive line stats and 30 pass blocking snaps and this was per next gen stats
campbell one pressure wilson one pressure bradbury clean sheet owenu one pressure moses one quick pressure the two sacks in the game were put on hunter henry and travion henderson
Here's more from Posteris.
Also important to note, Campbell was one-on-one, two-thirds of all past blocking snaps
second only to Morgan Moses.
So Will Campbell was left on an island two-thirds of the past-blocking snaps that he had.
So 20 of the 30 dropbacks.
And Campbell gave up only one single solitary pressure.
Going into this game, I had talked about the Miami Dolphins defensive line and the fact
that they can get after the quarterback.
They've got some really talented pass rushers on that defensive line.
And the Patriots O' line, they responded to that challenge.
They were really good in past protection.
Brian Haynes,
Heinz, sorry, Brian.
Brian Heinz of CLNS posted.
Drake May was under pressure on just 19.4% of his dropbacks.
That's according to pro football focus.
And Heinz mentioned that's the first game of May's career.
He's faced a pressure rate under 20%.
The eye test,
on the rewatch. They were good. They were good. Now, if you want to talk about the run game,
some mixed results in the run game. The zone runs were not working as well as the Patriots
would hope. That's according to Taylor Kyle's when you look at the film, the outside zone stuff,
hasn't really clicked. Patriots used it a lot during camp, but it's just not there yet.
But there were some good numbers in the run game for the O line.
The Patriots were 10th, and of course, this doesn't count the four teams that will play Monday night football.
But heading into Monday night, the Patriots were 10th, an EPA per rush, expected points added.
They were fifth in yards before contact per attempt with 1.94.
So they were giving the running back some room.
But they were 19th in rush success rate at under 38%, 37.9%.
So what that tells me is the Patriots run game.
game was boom or bust it worked in spots it didn't work in spots when it worked it worked
really well and it worked really well in the first half but i would look at all these analytics
and i would look at that that game and i would rewatch it and i would say if you rewatch it like
i did you'd walk away feeling like there's some promise on this offensive line week two on
the road hot humid a lot of people wondered would the offensive line get
through with the conditioning and with so much new four out of the five guys new to the Patriots
two rookies on the left side I feel really good where they're at right now of course this
can change everything's fluid it's early in the season but right now based off that performance
I feel like they have some promise on that offensive line they're headed in the right direction
the defensive line meanwhile stepped up big time in the second half specifically Milton
Williams and Christian Barmore in the fourth quarter they
made life miserable for the Dolphins' offensive line.
Andrew Callahan from the Herald posted playing through 85 to 90 degree heat, the Patriots
pass rush somehow went from a 14% pressure rate through three quarters.
And we talked about that in the post game, the fact that there was no pressure on Tua in the
first half, but the Patriots went from 14% pressure rate through the first three quarters
to 66% pressure rate in the fourth quarter.
They were constantly on to them.
And that changed the game.
Pro Football Focus wrote this about Milton Williams.
Williams tallied four pressures on a 22.6% pass rush win rate in week one and followed it up with an even better outing in week two.
In Miami, Williams collected five pressures.
He had an 85.8 pff pass rushing grade and two sacks.
Doug Kide from the Herald posted.
Christian Barmore and Williams ranked 10th and 3rd.
12th, respectively, out of 111 qualified defensive tackles and pro football focuses overall
defensive grade.
So right now, through the first two weeks, the Patriots have two guys near the top 10.
One guy in the top 10, one guy 12.
Barmore Williams ranked 10th and 12th overall for defensive tackles respectively by
pro football focus.
How about more on the defensive line from PFF?
Harold Landry, 10 pressures through two games.
Barmore has three pressures in a pass rush win rate above 10.7% in both of the first two games.
Kairis Tonga has emerged with a 15.4% past rush win rate or better through the first two contests.
Pro football focused, by the way, had K. Levan Chase on with five pressures against Miami per Greg Bedar.
And because of that defensive line doing work, the Patriots were able to get pressure in the fourth quarter without blitz.
Dugkeye posted the Patriots only blitzed to a tongue of Iowa four times on Sunday.
That's according to pro football focus.
That was down from 16 blitzes in week one versus the Raiders.
They blitzed one quarter of the time against Miami as they blitzed against the Raiders.
But in the fourth quarter, that defensive line one and one and one again.
And thanks to that defensive line because the linebackers, I'll tell you, during the rewatch,
were even worse than I thought watching live,
especially Robert Spillane.
He was bad against the pass.
He was bad against the run.
And according to Doug Kyd, Spelaine and Ellis
currently are first and second in most mistackles.
Spillane has eight.
Ellis has six.
Spillane and Ellis are also two of eight linebackers
who have allowed 100 plus yards in coverage
through two weeks, according to pro football focus.
and you had Marte Mapu, his huge miss on Devon Ait Chan towards the end of that game
and luckily he stepped out of bounds. Patriots really need to figure out the second level.
Bad in coverage, bad tackling.
They need to be much better, both Spillane and Ellis.
But thankfully, the defensive line, Landry, Williams, Barmore, Chase on.
They went to work in Miami, especially in that fourth quarter,
and that's how you get out of that game with a W for the first time since 2019 down there in Florida.
So trench warfare.
Mike Vrable said it from the very beginning.
We want to win in the trenches.
The Patriots were the better team in the trenches on Sunday.
And you get the dub.
All right.
We thought Drake May was mostly excellent in Miami when we talked about him in the live post game.
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Watching the game live, and I said this during the post game, I felt like Drake May was mostly excellent, mostly excellent.
Well, after rewatching the game and checking out the released.
analytics. I got to tell you, May was better than mostly excellent. May was spectacular.
Men lie, women lie, numbers don't. And before Monday night football, Drake May for week
two of the NFL season, had a top three quarterback performance. Let me go through some of these
numbers for you. Again, this is heading into Monday night football. You still have four teams that
have to play. But out of the, what is it, 28 quarterbacks that played this week, or at least
started this week, Drake May. Third, in completion percentage over expected, plus 13.5%. Now,
what that tells us is that May had some tough completions that he had to make in the football game.
And his completion percentage over what was expected was plus 13.5%, third best in the NFL before
Monday night football.
expected points added Drake May second in the NFL and expected points added per dropback May second in the NFL old school stat for all of you passer rating May second in passer rating may was also third in the NFL in yards per attempt cleaner pocket more opportunity better football from your quarterback I mean all of those analytics all of those statistics that I just
went through, the analytical darlings will tell you that is an elite type of performance from
Drake May. There's no other way to look at it. There's just simply no other way. Now, to talk
about the clean pocket is one thing. To talk about the overall performance and what May did
against that Miami defense is one thing. But what about the blitz? Well, May versus the
Blitz of Miami, he was even more impressive. He showed tremendous amounts of poise.
He was accurate throughout the entire game. I said during the live post game that I could
only remember the Stefan Diggs miscommunication and misfire. Rewatching the game,
there was one pass to Hunter Henry. I think Drake May intentionally threw it low and away
from the defender, but it was a tough catch, and Henry did not come down with it.
You could put that on May.
There was the Diggs play, which was, again, the miscommunication, I think, against zone coverage
where May thought Diggs was going to sit on his route, and he kept going.
There was also the big play to Austin Hooper early in the game in the first half, where if May
puts it on Hooper better, it's probably a touchdown, but he made it a little bit more difficult
and Hooper actually had to hit the ground to make the catch.
Other than that, there was a deflection at the line of scrimmage in the red zone,
on a third and goal play.
Other than those plays, Drake May was accurate.
He was hitting his target over and over and over again, and frankly, he was dominant.
And so to get back to the idea of what May did against the Blitz, check this out.
Before Monday Night Football, Drake May.
second-best passer rating in the NFL against the Blitz.
His passer rating for the game was 137.3.
His passer rating against the Blitz was 152.6, which is outrageous.
I talked about the completion percentage over-expected.
That was a great number at plus 16.3.
Check that plus 13.5.
Well, against the Blitz, May was second in the NFL.
In completion percentage over-expected, 24.3.
percent plus crazy numbers he was fourth in EPA he was fifth in EPA per drop back and if you think
it's because oh well Miami blitz but they just didn't get enough pressure on May may actually
faced the ninth highest pressure rate versus the blitz when Miami blitzed may faced a pressure rate
of 54.5 percent so Drake may was excellent with a clean pocket and no pressure he was
excellent against the blitz. He was excellent against the blitz, even though he got some pretty
high pressure rate during those blitzes. Andrew Callahan gives you the basic numbers here. May was
terrific against the blitz in week two. And when you compare it to week one, it's a step in the right
direction. Against the Raiders, May was eight of 14 for 70 yards in a touchdown against the
blitz. Not terrible. Not terrible. Okay. But he went from eight of 14 for 70 yards in a touchdown.
touchdown to six of seven for 83 yards in a touchdown he had a 62.5% success rate and this is the
issue for any defense looking at this film if you blitz may he could each up Miami blitzed them
he ate Miami up if you play zone well now you're going to have some issues because if you if
you play zone he's going to find those soft spots in the zone and then you all
also introduce his legs, which is a big time problem.
Daniel Rotman posted pending Monday night football.
Drake May is the only quarterback to throw 68 plus times and maintain a 70 plus
completion rate, the only quarterback in football.
Drake May is one of two quarterbacks to throw 68 plus passes and only account for one
turnover worthy play.
the other is Josh Allen
and if there's one stat
that we pounded
before the season that you want to see
Drake may improve on
it was the turnover worthy play stat
he got better as the season went on last year
but he did have four fumbles in the final
four games or so
but this year through two games
even though he has thrown 68 plus
passes only one
turnover worthy play
that is significant
improvement
oh Nick it was against Miami though it was against Miami of course he's going to rip apart Miami's defense that's fair context
Miami's not very good defensively that is fair context however let me give you even more context
because down and distance and situation they all matter circumstances matter so when you're going
against Miami's defense, you should have some level of success if you're a decent quarterback.
But when you go against Miami's defense and you're facing a bunch of tough situations,
that's when you really prove how good you are and prove your medal.
In this game, first drive, you look at third and fourth down, first drive of the game, fourth
and three, completion of digs, move the chains.
then on the second drive you had a third and four hits travion henderson the wheel route perfect throw perfect throw from may continuing on that second drive there was a third and six may scrambles for 13 yards first down and then the icing on the cake may throws that great touchdown great throw great catch kishan booty that was on a third and five so third and five third and six third and four
Move the chains, move the chains, touchdown.
First drive, fourth and three.
Move the chains to Diggs.
You end up with the touchdown.
And then the third quarter touchdown drive,
you had a second and 12 after Jared Wilson holds.
Drake May does a great job taking the profit to Ramandre Stevenson for nine yards,
gets it to manageable, third and three,
which led to that incredible play down the sidelines to Ramandre Stevenson for 50 plus yards
on the wheel route. And then he caps it off. First and goal outruns Matthew Judon for the
touchdown. So yes, Miami's defense, not as good. You would think that Drake May would be
good against that defense, but he was really, really good when it mattered most. Third down,
fourth down, red zone, time and time and time again, he came through. Two pets who were expected
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Two of the most impressive offensive players in camp were Pop Douglas and Trayvion Henderson.
And we went into the season.
I went into the season with some significant expectations, especially for Henderson.
And neither guy. Neither guy has been a huge factor for this offense through two weeks.
Let's look at Pop Douglas first. Against Miami, Pop Douglas had 15 snaps. According to Mike
Reese, that is the lowest snap total for Pop Douglas since 2003. It's been a while. And before the season
began, I had one caveat to all of the Pop Douglas talk. With the Patriots wanting to establish the run,
I asked the question, would that affect Pop Douglas's snap totals because he's not a big guy.
He is not a run blocker.
He's smaller, smaller framed.
And if you want to run the football, you're not going to have Pop Douglas on the field for the most part.
And so I don't think it's a coincidence that the Patriots go out against Miami and they absolutely establish the run with Miranda.
and they're trying to run the football and they have more balance to their offense against Miami than
they did against the Raiders and Pop Douglas is out there for only 15 snaps.
When the Patriots run the ball, they like having Stefan Diggs, Mack Hollins, and Kishon
Booty out there.
That's what they like.
They obviously feel like those are their best, the best run blocking wide receivers on this roster.
So that's going to impact Pop's snap percentage.
It's just going to.
If the Patriots want to continue to run,
which I believe they're going to want to continue to run the football,
that means less time for pop on the field.
It is what it is.
Now, I do wonder, will this become too predictable?
Because when you see Pop Douglas out there,
you've got to be thinking pass if you're the defense, right?
Now, of course, occasionally every once in a while,
McDaniels will likely call the run when pops out there
to try to make sure that it's not so predictable for the defense.
But the vast majority of the time when Pop Douglas is on the field,
you can expect a drop back.
And that is going to bring a level of predictability to the offense.
So that also, I think, will hurt Pop Douglas's chances of getting on the field more consistently.
Then you look at Trayvion Henderson.
Henderson only played four more snaps than Pop Douglas did.
He had 19 snaps on the day.
And rewatching the game, this is one of those things where you might not absorb it when you're watching it live.
rewatching the game. Travion Henderson had one single solitary touch in the second half.
Now, I believe he had two back to back, but one of them got wiped away by a penalty.
So Trayvion Henderson, your second round pick, top 40 pick, he had five touches in this football game.
Four of them were in the first half.
He was non-existent for the most part in the second half.
I don't know if that's because Stevenson was having such a good game and Josh McDaniels said
we're going to ride the hot hand, could be.
I don't know if it's because Trayvion Henderson had a bunch of mistakes in pass pro,
especially, which is supposed to be one of the best things about his game is his pass
protection.
He wasn't good against Miami and pass protection.
He got called for two or three holds.
He gave up a sack.
So maybe McDaniel said, you know what?
Too many mistakes.
We can't live with him on the field as much.
We've got to take him off the field.
Let's give Ramandre more of an opportunity.
And let's give Antonio Gibson a shot.
Gibson had 10 snaps in the game.
So pretty interesting stuff.
Pop Douglas and Trayvion Henderson,
two players who we felt really good about after camp,
had two really good camps.
And they have not done a whole heck of a lot.
in the first two games. I know that Pop Douglas had the touchdown against the Raiders,
but he did nothing other than that. The most memorable thing he did in that game other than
the touchdown was drop a pass. So we'll keep an eye on it. Will Pop Douglas and Trayvion
Henderson become more of an impactful significance to this offense? Or is this just
what we're going to see? I have a little bit more confidence in the idea that.
that Trayvion Henderson will become a bigger part of the offense than Pop Douglas because of the run game.
Let's also talk about Josh McDaniels because obviously it's his call, how much Pop Douglas is out there,
how much Trayvon Henderson's touching the football.
And Josh McDaniels made two big adjustments in this game against Miami.
The first one was just balance.
In the game against the Raiders, the Patriots had 53 dropbacks way too many.
way too many. And against Miami, they had 30 dropbacks. And it was pretty much 50-50, run, pass.
And that's what's going to make this team better offensively. I said it after that loss against the Raiders.
The Patriots are not going to be able to survive offensively if they're one-dimensional.
You can't have Drake May go out there and throw the ball 40, 45 times. That's a recipe for disaster.
You have to find that balance. You have to find the run game.
the Patriots found more of that run game in Miami than they did at Gillette against the Raiders.
So 30 dropbacks against the Dolphins versus 53 dropbacks against the Raiders.
Another thing that we discussed after the Miami, after the Raiders loss, sorry about that,
after the Raiders loss, another thing that we discussed was motion and the fact that the Patriots
were 30th in the NFL in motion.
That changed, changed against Miami.
Rich Rebar, known as Lord Rebes on Twitter.
Check him out.
He posted after a 28.3% motion rate in week one, which again was 30th in the NFL,
the Patriots used motion on 56.7% of Drake May's dropbacks in week two, which was 14th.
Pretty much middle of the pack.
So they're still not outrageous with the motion, but that is a significant jump.
They more than doubled the amount of motion.
for Drake May's dropbacks in week two than what they showed week one.
And with pre-snap motion movement,
Drake May is 22 of 2070s,
completed 81.5% of his passes for 10.4 yards per attempt and two touchdowns.
So when they've gone in motion,
Drake May has been much better.
McDaniels used more motion week two than week one,
more than double, just, just more than double.
So two good adjustments from your offensive coordinator.
One more guy I want to shout out.
Anthony Jennings.
Shout out to Anthony Jennings, complete professional, rewatching the game.
I thought he made the most of his snaps.
I think he only played like 11 or 12 defensive snaps.
But he made a big difference at the beginning of the second half
against that Miami run game.
He had two or three run stops.
And he also had a tackle on special teams.
He was also part of the blocking that that sprung Antonio Gibson free
for the kick return touchdown.
So shout out to Anthony Jennings.
Not many people are going to talk about him this week,
but I thought given the opportunities,
he played well.
He did as much as he could with those opportunities.
So great job by him being professional
and giving the Patriots good football.
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