Drake Maye 11/8: "We've got to bounce back"

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

Hey, Drake, how disappointing was this performance for you and overall?

Drake Maye (0:06)

Yeah, very, you know, very, I'm disappointing myself for you can't put, shoot, put the team in the hole, you know, straight off the bat. First possession, first half, like in the times we had chances to get back into the game.

You know, shoot, I messed them up, and we had chances to put us back within three points, you know, multiple times, and just frustrating. You know, I got to do a better job from a holes perspective, communication, doing a little things right. And, you know, I just, I wasn't good, I wasn't good today. And we got to, you know, bounce back, and we're on a far flight, but we got to bounce back and know that this, there's still some games left, and we're battling, we got to battle. I think that's just, that's it.

SPEAKER_3 (0:53)

Drake, you talk every week about turnovers. You know, you had some again today. How frustrating is that for you? And also, you just said you got to battle. What kind of mindset do you have going forward with this team for this week?

Drake Maye (1:04)

Yeah, we haven't had a clean turnover-free game yet, and it's starting with me. Man, it's one of the biggest difference between winning and losing football games. And so, you know, our defense in a bad spot, you know, in the first, the first draft, and just, you know, gave them the football and had some other chances, you know, down the field and got to see in front, I got to see in front. I feel like I was, you know, just a little late sometimes and I was just trying to, you know, play, we got into a throwing game, and that's partly because of what we did, you know, offensively and to our, to the team. And then we didn't really get to, you know, build off the run game. And I think we just got to start the game, and, you know, me specifically start better.

SPEAKER_3 (1:46)

Drake, can you just take us through the three interceptions, what you saw, pre-snap and then post that led to those turnovers?

Drake Maye (1:54)

Yeah, just throwing the football in spots that I don't think, you know, I don't think I should have thrown it. You know, the first one, I think, I just got to see them, see the guys, you know, deep, you know, see the safety positions. The second one happens, we got to maybe throw it a little farther. And the third one, like I said, they're jumping across routes, so I got to see in front.

SPEAKER_4 (2:13)

Mike, race in the front row.

SPEAKER_5 (2:15)

Drake took some hits today. I'm curious how you would describe how you feel coming out of this game physically.

Drake Maye (2:21)

Yes, it's football.

Everybody's taking hits out there, so I feel good. I know we are battling. This team is not feeling so good and some injuries. And I know these guys are trying to step up and get in there. And we got to band together, and we got to start being better throughout the week, practicing, start some practice. And Coach always says the good players, our best players got to play well, and we didn't do that today.

SPEAKER_6 (2:49)

Drake, you've talked in the past about sometimes you can't hunt the big play, you just have to make the right play. Going against this team, they play a lot of too high, they play a ton of zone, they feast on turnovers, they try and take away big plays. Did you guys feel going into this game, you could sort of out-strength them, your strength is big plays, you could get big plays on them, or was the game plan really sort of supposed to be take what they give you?

Drake Maye (3:09)

Yeah, I mean, I think it depends on the feel of the game. I think we felt like they were good in the back end. Especially the safety positions, they're ball aware on the left. They've had a lot of turnovers, you know, on, you know, eyes on the quarterback, Iowans own coverage.

And I knew that coming into it and forced the first one.

And then, like I said, they've jumped some crossers and just got to, just got to see it. And that's on me. And from there, we also, you know, we did hit some big ones. So there's some give and take to it. But I think the bad ones hurt, you know, more than the good ones, unfortunately.

SPEAKER_7 (3:43)

Drake, basically halfway through this season at this point, what is your gauge on who this team is? And Mike talked about the identity of this group. What do you sense about who this team is halfway through the year?