Patriots’ Drake Maye has QB maturity well beyond his years

In this era of information overload, we are all subjected to preposterous "stats" from time to time.

While the history of performances at 3 p.m. on partly cloudy days with a slight easterly breeze on an odd day in the month could potentially serve as a functional anecdote, such "information" doesn't actually mean anything.

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Perhaps all of that is why the football world has largely overlooked this one, which does seem to have some actual value: Drake Maye has four straight games with 200-plus passing yards, a 73.3 percent or better completion rate and a 100-plus passer rating. The only other quarterback to have such a stretch is Tom Brady. In 2007, no less.

That is ... insane? Those are all fairly well-known sta