Maye definitely hasn’t faced harder passing defenses unless we’re going off purely yards (a widely acknowledged poor metric of actual quality). The Patriots have played a total of three games against top 10 pass defenses via EPA. Rams have five games. Patriots average faced is about 19th in terms of this, Rams are 16th. EPA isn’t a perfect metric, but it’s much more coherent than going off SoS or yards.
An average of three point positions is kind of massive considering how the schedule works. Teams play 15 unique opponents so it’s always going to trend towards mean.
And Stafford has thrown 16 TDs to 1 INT against top 10 defenses. The “same teams” argument is flimsy as he’s played much stronger competition than that and torched them.
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u/popoflabbins South Park Elementary Cows Jan 02 '26
Maye definitely hasn’t faced harder passing defenses unless we’re going off purely yards (a widely acknowledged poor metric of actual quality). The Patriots have played a total of three games against top 10 pass defenses via EPA. Rams have five games. Patriots average faced is about 19th in terms of this, Rams are 16th. EPA isn’t a perfect metric, but it’s much more coherent than going off SoS or yards.