FOXBOROUGH - Drake Maye was playing so well in the first half of Sunday’s 25-19 win over the New Orleans Saints, no one wanted to go near him for fear of causing the Patriots quarterback to cool off.

With every offensive series, Maye just kept hitting receivers all over the lot.

And his teammates kept avoiding him.

Center Garrett Bradbury said it was kind of like a superstitious tradition in baseball when a pitcher is in the middle of throwing a no-hitter. No one wants to utter a peep to jinx it.

“He’s been lights out throwing the ball. That first half there, we were like, we don’t want to say anything. This guy is just slinging it around,” Bradbury said of Maye, who had a perfect passer rating in the first half, completing 11 of 13 passes for 185 yards with three touchdowns during t

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