In Sunday’s 10-7 win over the Broncos, Patriots quarterback Drake Maye ran around the left side for a key play on third down after the two-minute warning, and no one was more surprised to see it happen than center Garrett Bradbury.
After the Patriots booked their ticket to the Super Bowl, Bradbury said the play was set up to get the ball to running back Lamond Stevenson and said “oh my god” when he realized Meyer never gave it to him.
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“After the game, Drake said, ‘I thought about whether I was going to tell you guys if I was going to [keep] Whether or not. but i Just decided not to‘. . . I look forward to Lamond trying to hole the ball. I turned around and Drake was there with the ball and I was like, ‘Go, go, go! ‘Because we don’t know. ‘” Bradbury said via Andrew Callahan boston herald.
Meyer confirmed at the press conference that the play was intended to work as Bradbury intended before he improvised.
“We have a lot of people,” Meyer said. “Same treatment on the right side, very little stretch. At some point, they get lazy and have a chance to go around the edge.”
It was the right play at the right moment, and the Patriots will hope to continue to see that from Meyer before the final buzzer sounds in Super Bowl X.
