Invoice O’Brien did not get sports-radio speak over Maye’s engagement

“The press conferences are nice, however who cares who’s on the press convention?”

Invoice O’Brien would not get the controversy over Drake Maye’s absence on Monday. Photograph by Maddie Malhotra/Getty Photos

Whereas Drake Maye was celebrating his engagement in Mexico this week, the Patriots QB was catching some flak on the airwaves in Boston.

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Maye discovered himself embroiled in an arduous sports activities radio narrative on Wednesday after 98.5 The Sports activities Hub’s Michael Felger took umbrage with the rookie QB lacking Mike Vrabel’s introduction as head coach of the Patriots on Monday.

“It’s not like this man, this child, is like an electrician and he will get 4 weeks (off) and he’s received three days after which he’s again on the job,” Felger mentioned of Maye throughout Wednesday’s “Felger & Mazz” program. “He doesn’t need to report back to work for 3 months!”

Maye, in fact, had good cause to catch some rays this week — as he received engaged to his girlfriend, Ann Michael Hudson, throughout his journey.

However that did little to discourage Felger from taking the QB to job for not being at Foxborough for Vrabel’s presser.

“OK. Congratulations,” Felger added after being advised that Maye was engaged. “I advised you, I received married and got here again the primary time — been married twice — the primary one three days later I used to be in Ottawa protecting the Bruins. On this (marriage) … (she) wished to get married within the fall. ‘OK, properly, I cowl the Patriots.’ This was again in 2000. We received to do it on the bye week. We did it on the bye week after which three days later I used to be again in Foxboro.”

“All I’m saying is, it’s common to make work a precedence and for it to be vital and so that you can steadiness the 2, Felger added. “So simply because he received engaged, I’m nonetheless not sitting there saying, ‘OK, properly I get why he didn’t come again.’ You possibly can nonetheless come again. You will get engaged and are available again. You possibly can say, ‘I’ll meet you there in a pair days. ‘I’ll be again in 36 hours and do it then.’ That doesn’t imply something to me.”

Whereas Felger is not any stranger to stirring up discourse on the radio, all the narrative concerning Maye’s absence was grating to present Boston Faculty soccer coach Invoice O’Brien.

“I simply communicate for myself, I may care much less,” O’Brien mentioned on WEEI’s “The Greg Hill Present” on Thursday. “When the offseason program begins, you need the man within the entrance row able to go. It’s not about press conferences. Somebody advised me, ‘It’s all nice on the press convention after which it’s all downhill from there.’ The press conferences are nice, however who cares who’s on the press convention?”

For what it’s value, Mac Jones was in attendance for Jerod Mayo’s introductory press convention at Gillette Stadium final January — solely to get traded to the Jaguars just some months later.