Full Show: Drake Maye’s “Inexplicable” Loss and Anthony Volpe's Yankee Recall

Craig Carton (0:06)

It's The Carton Show with Big Mac on a gorgeous Wednesday afternoon in New... Is it Wednesday?

Anthony Gallo (0:15)

It's a Thursday.

Craig Carton (0:16)

Thursday afternoon in New York City. The number to join, as always, 888-808-109.

Got a great show for you today. Belly's full after a nice little visit by the folks that Pat LaFrieda meet, including Pat LaFrieda himself.

Chris McMonigle (0:33)

How about that?

Craig Carton (0:33)

Good to have them and Mellie Mel and the entire crew stopping by today. But today is about more football.

And more football. And I've told you guys this from Jump Street.

Chris McMonigle (0:45)

I was thinking about you guys.

Craig Carton (0:46)

I told you guys the Patriots are paper tigers. I told you they're not winning more than six games. I told you that Drake May was an average to maybe good quarterback.

And last night, on the road, albeit, on the road against a backup quarterback named True Luck, because Sam Dornal pulled an Aaron Rodgers, Drake May decides in the fourth quarter to go interception, interception, interception, and the Patriots lose.

Chris McMonigle (1:17)

Yes!

Craig Carton (1:18)

Good times, everybody. Good afternoon, Big Mac. How are you?

Chris McMonigle (1:21)

I'm doing great. I was thinking about you last night watching that game.

SPEAKER_5 (1:24)

Yeah.

Chris McMonigle (1:24)

Because everything you said, one weekend, one weekend, we have to be fair to the Patriots because they lost last year, week one, to the Vegas Raiders.

Chris McMonigle (1:31)

That is correct, sir.

Chris McMonigle (1:33)

But one weekend, you could not have been more right. That's right. That's a game that is, it's an embarrassing loss on every level. When Sam Dornal goes down and True Luck comes in, you can't lose that game. No. You can't give up 13 consecutive, like you just cannot allow it. And then in the fourth quarter, the performance that Drake May put forth, each interception worse than the next. Like the first one, all right, he tries to give it up to Dobbs. Dobbs is a kind of go get it at its highest point, kind of wide receiver. But he throws it into double coverage. It gets picked off. Then he throws one across the middle with love watching. That was a bad pass. The entire time.

Craig Carton (2:10)

It's an unacceptable pass.

Chris McMonigle (2:12)

And then in the end, it's one of the more dumb things I have seen a quarterback do.

Craig Carton (2:18)

Because you're in field goal territory.

Chris McMonigle (2:20)

You're going to overtime. There is literally a list of a million things you can do in that spot. There's one you can't. You could do anything. You could run out of bounds. You can get sacked. You could throw the ball into the ground. Hell, let's be totally honest.

You could have a throw the ball away and get a 15 yard penalty.

You could literally do intentional grounding. Thank you. You could literally intentional ground the ball and still have a chance to win the football game. The only thing you cannot do is throw the ball up in the air and allow it to be picked off in the end zone. It is an inexplicable performance from the quarterback. It's a horrendous decision. It's unacceptable. And quite honestly, if you can't beat Drew Lock with a lead, what kind of football team are you? You're not.

Craig Carton (3:05)

And by the way, if they lose to Pittsburgh guy in week two in their home opener, they're going to start the season off 0-4 because they have Jacksonville on the road, very good football team, and Buffalo on the road after that. But I will say this. Pardon me for a second there.

Chris McMonigle (3:18)

I will say this to you. That steak sandwich coming up.

Craig Carton (3:20)

Yeah, a little bit.

What it reminded me of, I wanted to get Steve Uryre on the same page. The Drake May, let's just go, forget about the other two interceptions. They are what they are. The first one, jump ball, all right, I could probably forgive it, even though you're going for a score. But the one over the middle is just egregious. And then with a chance to at least go to overtime. And again, Drew Lock's their quarterback and their offense, while they obviously scored the 13 points in the second half, after being down 7-0, et cetera. In the first half, going into the locker room, you're not worried or you shouldn't be worried about Drew Lock beating you in overtime. But when he decided off his back foot to throw that ball, and like you said, when he could have done literally every and any other thing, other than I guess fumble and lose a fumble on the table, and at least still had that opportunity for what would have been, I don't know, 45 to 55 yard field goal, whatever the ball stops, to go to overtime, it was deja vu for me though. And I'm wondering if you saw it the same exact way.