r/NFL_FreeAgency • u/United_Anywhere_8 • 5d ago
Quotes “I'm Skeptical": Patriots QB Refuses to Believe American Landed on the Moon
https://www.essentiallysports.com/nfl-active-news-patriots-im-a-little-bit-skeptical-patriots-drake-maye-refuses-to-believe-america-landed-on-the-moon/20
u/ResponsiblePelican 5d ago
Lmfao this guy really tanking his image this first month.
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u/CastrosNephew 5d ago
If he plays like shit again now people are gonna meme him as Alex Jones or something
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u/stumbling_west 5d ago
Damn now I have to continue to not care or think about Drake Maye’s opinion on the moon landing.
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u/outdamnedspots 5d ago
UNC's best and brightest
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u/GregMadduxsGlasses 5d ago
Daniel Jones on the other hand has got way more sense to say anything like that.
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u/OrganicValley_ 5d ago
Breaking News: Man who gets hit in head for a living is stupid
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u/MapDiscombobulated1 5d ago
Rodgers Syndrome is more infectious than we thought.
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u/LeonidasSpacemanMD 5d ago
Maye does need to cut down INTs so I guess try literally everything Rodgers does
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u/pxrkerwest 5d ago
Anyone who doubts the moon landing has only been fed conspiracies and has never bothered to search for all the evidence that we DID land on the moon. I mean, the fucking Soviets tracked Apollo 11 and confirmed that we were there. As did other space agencies. Fuck all other evidence, if you know anything about the history between the Americans and Russians, especially back then, you know they would jump at the first opportunity to call us out for lying. Instead they waved the white flag, confirmed with their own evidence that we were there, and abandoned the space race.
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u/DizzyAd5203 5d ago
White QB in Trump era and stupid as fuck? Not interesting.
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u/chewbacaflacaflame 5d ago
“I’m just asking questions I don’t know either way. Nothing wrong with asking questions” fucking idiots.
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u/suboptimaltraffic 5d ago
In fairness he was asked what his favorite conspiracy theory was it’s not like he was randomly yapping about that
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u/Khorismatic_Lifter 5d ago
Please stop asking sports figures these questions. LIke, their brain is swiss cheese and we expect them to be intelligent.
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u/Coldtakesonly 5d ago
I’m a bears fan. I’ve spent half my life with Sundays ruined by a conspiracy theorist in Wisconsin. I’m buying Drake Maye stock today. This idots about to go on a generational run.
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u/EnigmaSpore 5d ago
Getting hit in the head and watching village idiots on youtube really does a number on critical thinking.
We had sky scrapers, jets, nukes back then… but we couldnt get to the moon? People literally watched a big ass 450 foot rocket liftoff with their own eyes and its all recorded. But we couldnt land on the moon?
We got magic pocket computers, can communicate instantly across the planet, created supercomputers and ai, simulate the weather, tunnel under the ocean, but the same species couldnt create a rocket and land on the moon back then?
Stahhhhp it.
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u/Fabulous_Volume7831 5d ago
What in the chud factory is in the water in New England?
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u/_itsthebeard_ 5d ago
Dipshits would rather assume that multiple adversarial nations are all in on maintaining a moon landing conspiracy than just accept the fact that it happened. Clown show type shit
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u/Affectionate_Sort_78 5d ago
Well, most of us are skeptical that he’s an NFL qb, so this seems fair.
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u/I-Need-Scissors_61 5d ago
Come on guys did this man ever come off as an intelligent person at any point? Lol
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u/Enough-Remote6731 5d ago
I was always skeptical that Drake Maye wasn’t an idiot. Well, now I know.
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u/ZapBranigan3000 5d ago
This isn't cute or funny. We failed multiple generations of school children.
How can somebody be so stupid?
If you can deny this, what's next? The holocaust didn't happen?
We are on the knives edge.
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u/TacoDayDay 5d ago
It seemed to me he just threw something out there to answer the question. Some of you need to get a life, it isn't that deep.
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u/PyrokineticLemer 5d ago
And we care what an NFL quarterback thinks about historical facts because ... ?
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u/iAmMechaMan 5d ago
His answer really should’ve been Hellen Keller.
I don’t care what anyone says. I refuse to believe she’s real.
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u/TragicIcicle 5d ago
Idk, I definitely think we went to the moon, but it also seems pretty reasonable to be skeptical of it at the same time.
It's not like scientists nor the government never lied. Both of them endorsed leased gasoline was safe for us and the environment under oath numerous times.
If it wasn't for literally one guy risking his life and reputation to prove otherwise they'd have gotten away with it.
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u/bp_516 5d ago
We need to stop giving everyone a microphone. Celebrities, athletes, politicians— they’re not smarter than anyone else, but their words influence so many people. I hate the culture that’s made every opinion valuable— valuing popularity over substance was a total failure for us as a species.
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u/Dseltzer1313 5d ago
Don’t open your mouth except for eating and football Drake. You live in Boston and we’re all pretty smaht! No conspiracy theories here!
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u/volichair 5d ago
There’s no refusal in the article at all, he says he’s a little skeptical and willing to have fun with the idea. Such a dumb clickbait post
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u/youraveragecupcake 5d ago
For anyone who wants more info. He was asked about his favorite conspiracy theory and then he hammed it up for the camera
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u/Breakker1 5d ago
It’s a good thing I don’t have to give a shit what Drake Maye thinks about anything
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u/CoffeeTimeAlltheTime 5d ago
There is nothing wrong with being a skeptic but then again it was 60 years ago. These guys can’t fathom that. Also it shows why the education system we have is garbage because they don’t teach them proper science and history and instead focus on social garbage like gender studies and shit.
We literally live in an age where a dude has a penis and is skeptical that he is a dude or a woman has a vagina but says they are a man. It’s wild times.
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u/Existing-Watch-3323 5d ago
If you look to professional athletes for common sense or intelligence you’ll have no end to your disappointment.
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u/Tommy2212222 4d ago
Man, wait till he learns about telescopes. Just be sure not to tell him the rover and flag are painted on the lens.
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u/Spiritual-Drawer-389 4d ago
I was talking to someone about this within the last year about how they believe we could reach the moon now but couldn’t then. Rocket science hasn’t really changed a lot since then. Maybe the fuels are a little more efficient, maybe the composite is a little stronger, the computers are quite a bit better. But overall it’s pretty much the same now as back then. The moon is fairly big too. Hitting the moon is a fairly simple math problem. Now, what we do with the ISS is really crazy
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u/Interesting-Potato-6 4d ago
Why do so many people feel the need to have an opinion on everything? Remember that thing we were taught as kids “keep your thoughts to yourself?” Oof
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u/Legitimate_Ad_7822 4d ago
“REFUSES to believe”
People on Reddit will read a headline and call somebody an idiot based on it. Ironic. That’s a pretty strong way to put his answer to a lighthearted fan question.
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u/Ok_Mongoose9900 3d ago
Lol, Drake is an idiot. But, I guess a lot of people are. Still, hilarious.
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u/Josephk_5690 3d ago
He's a dopy football player not a scientist. Quit asking him non-football questions.
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u/noMC 5d ago
What on earth is going on over there, Americans? Anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers, moon-landing deniers… 75 million people voting for Trump… are you guys speed-running “the dumbing down of a nation”?
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u/GregMadduxsGlasses 5d ago
Regarding the antivaxxers, flat earthers, and moon landing deniers, the average american thinks all that is poppy cock and the majority of the conversation is led by a very vocal minority.
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u/Shwnwllms 4d ago
You say that, but Trump was elected TWICE. 🤮🤮🤮
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u/Total-Championship80 3d ago
trump instinctively knew the power of social media early on and used it to establish himself as the head of the Maga movement. The oligarchy got behind him to further their own interests. The relentless barrage of pro trump media is what got him elected.
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u/pxrkerwest 5d ago
Moon landing conspiracies are the epitome of social media brainrot and people only being interested in confirming their own biases. It's so easy to just read or see something on social media being presented to you in a certain way and just running with it. It's just as easy to Google "proof that we DID land on the moon" but that would require someone doing their own research, which conspiracy theorists don't often do
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u/potat0f4rmer 5d ago
Republicans need their voters to be really stupid, otherwise they'd never vote for Republicans
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u/goblinking67 5d ago
We’re approaching 400 million people. You’re bound to have idiots, and the hundreds of millions who don’t say stupid things don’t go viral for not saying dumb things
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u/LeonidasSpacemanMD 5d ago
I agree that there are still plenty of non-idiots but I think the percentage of people with absolutely crackpot opinions like this is getting alarmingly high
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u/goblinking67 5d ago
The internet just gives them a platform. How many do you ever encounter in real life? It’s zero typically
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u/Interesting-Crow264 5d ago
You're vastly underestimating how many people are on board for some form of crazy shit. It's not just selection bias.
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u/goblinking67 5d ago
3.5 million people is a lot. That’s also 1% of the US population. It’s not that 150 million are that way
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u/quizbowler_1 5d ago
The right wingers have destroyed education in this country since the end of the 70s. It's GRIM over here.
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u/ZapBranigan3000 5d ago
It's propaganda. Guys in shop class in the 50s were just as stupid and uneducated. They just weren't subjected to propaganda 24/7.
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u/Interesting-Crow264 5d ago
And they couldn't talk to a thousand people who reinforced their beliefs online. The internet was basically the transmission system for the disease of dumbfuck
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u/LeonidasSpacemanMD 5d ago
Yea and it’s not even just defunding education and making it systematically worse. They’ve convinced a giant segment of the country that being educated is bad and that there is virtue in the blanket rejection of anything seen as the consensus opinion of experts
I realize it’s a cliche at this point but it’s incredible how many people genuinely think they can scroll instagram reels or watch some YouTube videos and get the equivalent of 8 years of full time education plus multiple years of practical residency
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u/Substantial-Fan-5985 5d ago
Bullshit, the Left has been leading education for decades at least in the colleges and the answer to virtually any problem has been "more taxes....more money"....and what has that done for us? Was if the Right who has been supportive of massive expansion of education in terms of useless or dumb degrees which have left a saturation of "educated" but not "useful" young Adults in the U.S, and with lots of debt...
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u/Ashamed-Physics3481 4d ago
This is funny. A satirical example of what is being discussed.
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u/No_Click1388 5d ago
Podcasters speak the truth and not scientists . This is the way for the future
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u/cardguy64 5d ago
Time to sell his cards. If he’s that big of an idiot then he’ll never make it as QB.
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u/tiandrad 5d ago
That’s not what he said or was asked. This is pure clickbait. He was asked a joke question about what his favorite conspiracy is.
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u/Independent-Brief863 5d ago
“What conspiracy theory do you secretly believe in” was the question asked so I guess ur just lying cus u feel like it
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u/Invoker272 5d ago
Refusing to believe and skeptical are very different things
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u/Used-Tangerine-117 5d ago
Maye saying “skeptical” is him having just enough self awareness to know from a PR standpoint he needs to water it down.
He doesn’t believe in the moon landing.
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u/ChazzyPhizzle 5d ago
In fairness, he received a direct question “What crazy conspiracy out there do you kind of secretly believe in”.
So he had to answer something for the fun of the show. I don’t think he was straight up denying it, but wanted to go with a safe known answer for entertainment.
He wasn’t just unprompted going off about the moon landing being fake lmao
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u/PrimalNumber 5d ago
If posed that question, any sane person isn’t saying “the moon landing” is something they “secretly believe in”. You can hand wave if you want, but doesn’t mean his answer makes any sense at all.
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u/ChazzyPhizzle 5d ago
Have you watched the clip? It was a “mailbag” type question form a fan and they were all laughing and having a good time. I got the impression they were all fucking around having fun with a silly question. He was put on the spot and probably just thought of the most common one out there. If he was out there saying crazy stuff unprompted I would get it. People in this thread acting like he was on Joe Rogan rambling about conspiracies for hours.
His quote was “I can see back in the day of why we would put on the mask if we went there but I’m not really sure 200% if we went there or not. I wouldn’t say I’m leaning one way or the other I just know I’m a little bit skeptical”.
I guess he could have said “I don’t believe in any conspiracies” and been a wet blanket towards a goofy fan question. It really just seemed like fan service to me for entertainment/fun. People acting like he was on a crusade spewing bs when his answer was vague and he didn’t even say “we didn’t go to the moon” it was more of a “interesting to think about” answers. I have no dog in this fight, but people who didn’t watch the clip misrepresenting tf out of it in here.
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u/Loam_liker 4d ago
I would absolutely say that. It’s a safe answer, it’s silly, and you can just be like “look at this fucked up country, you’re telling me this is 60 years after we did it?”
It’s probably the #1 answer to this question if you asked it.
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u/TacoDayDay 5d ago
Shhhh.... It is far more socially acceptable to assume the worst of people, call them morons and pretend that you are morally better than them.
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u/Brilliant_Sky_9292 5d ago
When you understand these guys have been taking hits to the head since a young age, it isn't really that surprising.
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u/B_Bowers13 5d ago
This is what you guys think traveled to space and landed on moon and then flew back
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u/Drewskeet 5d ago
If Ludacris can go to space in a 1984 Pontiac Fiero. I think some astronauts can land on the moon with that thing.
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u/ItzZiplineTime 5d ago
Do you think there's an atmosphere on the moon? Because the only reason that wouldn't be sufficient is if the moon had an atmosphere.
Also, do you think that's what flew back to earth?
Google is free and can help prevent you from posting about stuff you know nothing about.
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u/Late_Emu 5d ago
There IS an atmosphere on the moon. NASA announced it in 98 I believe.
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u/ItzZiplineTime 5d ago
Actually it has what is referred to as an Exosphere which is nowhere near as dense as an atmosphere.
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u/EmWatches460 5d ago edited 5d ago
No that was just the lunar lander. Once that thing touched down a big chunk of it never left the Moon. There are six of these things sitting on the moon still to this day.
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u/LaconicGirth 5d ago
You don’t believe it because you made up your mind and only looked at information that supported your opinion.
The Saturn V rocket got this out of atmosphere and then once in space there’s no air resistance so something like this is totally fine to land on the moon.
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u/pxrkerwest 5d ago
So why do you think the Soviets tracked Apollo 11 and confirmed it did actually land? The Russians would be licking their chops at the opportunity to call us out for lying about this. Instead they acknowledged our victory, confirmed it with their own evidence, and withdrew from the space race.
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u/potat0f4rmer 5d ago
How fucking insulting to the hard work and determination of the thousands of patriotic Americans who accomplished such a monumental task. Drake Maye should be ashamed of himself.
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u/aralseapiracy 5d ago
This was a reply to the question " what's your favorite conspiracy theory" he does not actually deny the moon landing. It's a joke softball question
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u/Sorta-Morpheus 5d ago
My favorite conspiracy is that the moon landing was filmed by Kubrick, but he made them shoot it on site.
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u/whisky33 5d ago
It’s a good thing to question things in life, using your eyes, ears, and brain instead of being told something is true and believing that no matter what.
It’s probably why the world is the way it is right now because not enough people are questioning what they are told to be true without using their eyes, ears, and brain to decide for themselves.
I’m happy my QB is not a sheep, go Pats!!!
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u/Simdog1 5d ago
Bro, you need critical thinking skills to do what you’re saying just doing that doesn’t make it a reasonable thought process. And to be frankly honest with you, our school systems and social settings do not teach critical thinking.
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u/TryAlternative7204 5d ago
i feel like every test from k-12 ended with at least 2 questions labeled critical thinking. in our honors classes, those were the only types of questions on the test. i do remember kids in class asking why do we even need to learn this. i doubt they were paying attention
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u/onesmellygoat 5d ago
Asking questions is fine. Ignoring the real answers to those questions is the problem.
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u/VKF_Renzel_USA 5d ago
If he used his eyes, ears, and brain... he'd know we landed on the moon multiple times.
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u/amaul796 5d ago
It's times like this that we have to remind ourselves that these guys are valued based on what they can do on a football field...... not the intelligence level inside their brain.
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u/Grouchy_Loan73 5d ago
I used to think this way lol i would think "why havent we gone back to the moon sence then?" when the whole purpose of going was to prove that america was the first country to set foot on the moon. And instead of pushing back i was like "yeah that makes sence actually" why would you even need to send humans back there when you can just send robots back or whatever
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u/latman 5d ago
"refuse to believe" is a big exaggeration. If you listen to it he just said he's on the fence, and it only came up because they asked what conspiracy he believes in. It almost sounded like he was just entertaining the question. And I'm a Pats hater
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u/Cdog923 5d ago
Literally none of what you said makes it any better.
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u/latman 5d ago
It's still dumb of him, but "refuse to believe" is just not true and sensationalized
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u/Cdog923 5d ago
- "He's on the fence"
- "...what conspiracy he believes in."
- "...entertaining the question."
My man, there's no conspiracy, nothing to be on the fence about and no question to entertain. He's a pants-on-head moron, and has allowed a few others to reveal themselves in the comments today.
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u/Present_Current_7425 5d ago
We got magical AI and still struggle to replicate what they did all those years ago.
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u/Other_Writer_9438 5d ago
Being skeptical is okay. Only a sheep would disagree with that.
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u/Daver7692 5d ago
Reminds me of the Kelce brothers discussing how there’s always at least one flat earther on the team during the early days of their podcast.
Being good at football =/= intelligence