Key Highlights
- In 2019, he was named Massachusetts Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association. Follow on XEmailPrintOpen Extended ReactionsFOXBOROUGH, Mass.
- When Drake Maye met Josh McDaniels for the first time, they were in different countries. Maye had just proposed to his longtime girlfriend, Ann Michael Hudson, on the sandy beaches of Mexico.
- McDaniels was moving back into a familiar space as New England Patriots offensive coordinator for the third time in his NFL coaching career."He was in the office, obviously, like he always is, probably watching film or something," Maye recalled of the January video call with a smile."It had nothing to do with football, that's what I remember," McDaniels said. It wouldn't be about football for a while.
- Before Maye and McDaniels shared X's and O's that have made them one of the NFL's most explosive QB-coordinator duos this season, they played pickleball together and dined at McDaniels' home, with quarterbacks coach Ashton Grant joining them.
- Maye and Ann Michael later bought a home around the corner from McDaniels."Gaining that trust and getting to know who they were as people was the first thing," said Grant, who is 30.
