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Week 5 of the NFL season may have been the wildest one yet, and the story coming out of the weekend is unquestionably all of the blown leads across the league. Six different teams lost after holding double-digit advantages in Week 5, but the teams coming from behind deserve some credit as well.
Some of those teams that came back to win will crack this list, but not all of them fit into the biggest winners of Week 5. Who made the cut?
It took until Week 5 of his second season for Drake Maye to get his first start in primetime, and he did not disappoint. The North Carolina product has been on a breakout track all season, but he has been buried in the early slate on most Sundays.
Maye’s stats don’t jump off the page from this game: 22-for-30 with 273 yards and no touchdowns or interceptions, but he made a number of plays outside the pocket that showcase his ceiling while also operating efficiently from the pocket all night.
After getting the Patriots out to a 20-10 lead, Josh Allen did what Josh Allen does and led the Bills back to tie the game. That left Maye with just over two minutes to go in a tied game, and he took advantage. He started the drive off with an incredible dump-off to Stefon Diggs while fighting off a Bills defender to move the chains.
Drake Maye what a play!
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Later in the drive, he stood in the pocket and fired a hole shot to Kayshon Boutte to beat the Bills’ Cover 2, gaining 19 yards and getting the Pats into field goal range.
One play that won’t show up in the stat sheet is Maye’s last one. The Patriots called a sprintout to his right to get a first down and drain the rest of the clock, but the Buffalo defense snuffed it out. Instead of sailing the ball out of bounds and leaving Allen with nearly a minute to go down and get a field goal of his own, Maye stayed inbounds and battled back to the line of scrimmage. New England kicked a field goal, and the Bills didn’t have time to match.
The small group of sick people that watched enough Patriots football in 2024 already saw it, but now Maye has had his coming out party in front of a national audience. Just five years after Tom Brady left town, the Patriots have their next franchise quarterback.
For years, the Jacksonville Jaguars have built a reputation for being a team that just finds a way to lose games. The Jags always seem like they are better than their record is, but mistakes at the end of games continue to haunt them time and time again.
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