We Maye have a Problem

Written By Rich McPhee

This week on the Simple Minds Sports Show, Dr. Big Mac, Rich, and Chief Bobby dive helmet-first into the steaming pile that was Patriots OTAs. Drake Maye throws more picks than a country music fan at a banjo shop before showing signs of life late in practice. The offensive line’s a patchwork quilt, the wide receivers room looks like a Craigslist yard sale, and somehow the kicker’s the only one earning his paycheck.

Then it’s time for HEADLINES with THE OBVIOUS ONE—our resident Scottish banshee returns to eviscerate Boston sports like a haggis with a grudge. From McDaniels’ ghost playbook to the Red Sox pretending to be competent and the Bruins rewarding failure with contracts, no one escapes The Obvious One’s verbal claymore.

It’s chaos. It’s insight. It’s football talk the way your drunk uncle meant it to be.

SHOW NOTES:

🏈 PATRIOTS OTAs

  • Drake Maye: 11-of-16 with 4 INTs… but bounced back strong to end practice with two bombs.

  • Offensive line mixing like a bad smoothie. Only Campbell & Bradbury were constants.

  • Phil Perry & Tom E. Curran call the intensity “way up” vs. Belichick years—less teaching, more hitting.

  • Christian Barmore looking lean, mean, and borderline terrifying.

  • Undrafted WR Efton Chism III making noise.

  • Kicker drills it—4-for-4 from 35 to 55 yards.

👀 Depth Chart Disasters

  • WR room? A dumpster fire with a name tag.

    • Diggs (ACL, 31) – done?

    • Douglas – brain still buffering.

    • Baker – should already be cut.

    • Bourne – certified goober.

  • OL shuffling like a Waffle House jukebox.

  • CB/S spots deep, but young.

  • QB room is a roll of the dice with wet fingers.

🔥 Forged in Foxboro

  • Will Campbell: “You gotta love violence to play OL.”

  • Wolf, Vrabel, Cowden – running the war room like a Vegas heist.

  • Eliot Wolf: voice-texting trades like a Gen Z GM on Adderall.

  • Wolf throws shade at Bill? You decide.

  • Saturday’s look: Wolf rocks a choker chain. Grogh looks like he wandered out of a vape shop.

🎧 HEADLINES WITH THE OBVIOUS ONE

  • Drake Maye slingin’ wobblers like a ferret in a hurricane.

  • Josh McDaniels’ playbook smells like expired mayonnaise.

  • Sox beat Mets, nobody knows how or why.

  • Devers goes full Rambo at the plate.

  • Bruins extend Don Sweeney, proving mediocrity is rewarded.

  • Knicks collapse harder than a cheap pub stool under a 300-lb Scotsman.

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Slàinte, and remember: Stay thicc, Boston.

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