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Drake Maye and J.J. McCarthy: The Awkward Predicament of the NFL Season's Opening

Drake Maye and J.J. McCarthy: The Awkward Predicament of the NFL Season's Opening

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September 30th, 2026

Drake Maye and J.J. McCarthy: The Awkward Predicament of the NFL Season's Opening

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Following a season in which he finished as the runner-up for MVP, Drake Maye endured an opening month that irresistibly calls to mind some of the most ignominious "bust" rookies of recent years.

德雷克·梅耶在荣膺MVP亚军的一个赛季之后,又历经了一个令人不禁联想到近年来若干最为不堪的“水货”新秀的开局之月。

J.J. McCarthy, having swiftly fallen out of favor in Minnesota before being traded, thereby earned himself a place on a distinctly unflattering list.

J.J.麦卡锡在明尼苏达迅速失意后即遭交易,亦由此跻身一份并不光彩的名单之列。

The first round of the 2024 draft produced six quarterbacks, tying a record, and two of them have not fared well in the opening stages of the 2026 season.

2024年选秀首轮共计遴选出六名四分卫,追平历史纪录,而其中两人在2026赛季的开局阶段境遇并不顺遂。

Let us begin with Maye.

先从梅耶谈起。

He burst into prominence in 2025, that is, in only his second season, leading the NFL in three statistical categories — passer rating (113.5), completion rate (72.0%), and yards per pass attempt (8.9) — while finishing behind only Matthew Stafford in MVP voting and helping propel the Patriots to the Super Bowl.

他在2025年、亦即其第二个赛季便锋芒毕露,以传球评分(113.5)、完成率(72.0%)以及每次传球尝试码数(8.9)三项数据冠绝NFL,且在MVP投票中仅逊于马修·斯塔福德,助力爱国者跻身超级碗。

Even though Maye's performances in the playoffs against several of the league's elite defenses were hardly dazzling, New England nonetheless managed to see that postseason run through to its end; yet the circumstances of this season's first three games can only be described as even worse, if anything.

纵然梅耶在季后赛面对联盟若干顶尖防守时的表现难称夺目,新英格兰终究还是走完了那一轮季后赛征程,然而本赛季前三场的境况,只怕有过之而无不及。

Over the first three games of the season, Maye committed seven turnovers while accounting for just one touchdown for the Patriots — no quarterback since 2007 has produced such a stat line.

梅耶于赛季前三场累计出现7次失误,其间仅为爱国者贡献1次达阵——自2007年以来,尚无四分卫交出如此数据。

The sole consolation lies in the fact that the last quarterback to find himself in such a predicament was Drew Brees, who subsequently rallied that same season, delivered a steady campaign, and went on to forge a Hall of Fame-caliber career thereafter.

唯一可资慰藉之处在于,上一位陷入此般境地的乃是德鲁·布里斯,其当季随后重振旗鼓,打出了一个稳健的赛季,并在此后铸就了名人堂级别的职业生涯。

There is another comparison list on which Maye finds himself, and it is far less encouraging than the previous one: his passer rating stands at just 58.6, which marks the fifth time in the past ten seasons that a quarterback has seen his rating fall below 60 after the first three games of the season.

梅耶身处的另一份对比名单,其令人鼓舞的程度则远逊于此:他的传球评分仅为58.6,这标志着在过去十个赛季中,第五度出现四分卫在开局前三场比赛后评分跌破60的情形。

The other quarterbacks on that list comprise a veritable rogues' gallery of notorious draft busts, including Anthony Richardson (55.9 in 2024), Justin Fields (50 in 2022), Zach Wilson (51.6 in 2021), and DeShone Kizer (53.2 in 2017).

该名单上其余的四分卫,囊括了安东尼·理查德森(2024年,55.9)、贾斯汀·菲尔兹(2022年,50)、扎克·威尔逊(2021年,51.6)以及德肖恩·基泽(2017年,53.2)等一众声名狼藉的选秀水货。

The Patriots have mustered a mere 29 points on offense so far this season — one of which came on a defensive touchdown in their Week 2 victory over Pittsburgh — marking the lowest total through three games since the 2021 Jets managed just 20 points across Wilson's first three career starts.

爱国者队本赛季迄今在进攻端仅斩获29分——其中一次防守达阵来自第2周战胜匹兹堡的比赛——这标志着自2021年喷气机队在威尔逊生涯前三场首发中仅得20分以来,前三场比赛的最低总得分。

McCarthy sustained a season-ending knee injury in the Vikings' preseason opener, thereby becoming only the third top-ten draft pick quarterback in history to not take a single offensive snap during his entire rookie season.

麦卡锡于维京人季前赛首战中遭遇导致赛季报销的膝伤,由此成为史上第三位在整个新秀赛季未曾参与任何一档进攻的前十顺位四分卫。

At the outset of last season, he took the field as the starter and was named the NFC Offensive Player of the Week in his debut; however, injuries limited him to just 10 starts that season.

上赛季伊始,他本以首发身份登场,并于首秀中荣膺NFC周最佳进攻球员,然而伤病使其该赛季仅获得10次首发机会。

Last season, McCarthy's passer rating was a mere 72.6, the lowest among all qualified quarterbacks, and this season he has fallen even further to the third string; now he will seek to revive his career with the New York Giants.

麦卡锡上赛季传球评分仅为72.6,在全部符合资格的四分卫中叨陪末座,本赛季更是跌至第三阵容,如今他将在纽约巨人谋求东山再起。

In the modern common draft era, which began in 1967, McCarthy is merely the sixth top-ten quarterback in history to have started no more than ten games for the team that originally drafted him.

在肇始于1967年的现代共同选秀纪元中,麦卡锡不过是有史以来第六位、为选中自己的原球队首发场次未逾十场的前十顺位四分卫。

In 1981, Green Bay selected Rich Campbell with the sixth overall pick; he threw a mere 68 passes in his career and never started a single game for the Packers.

1981年,绿湾于第六顺位选中里奇·坎贝尔,其生涯传球仅68次,从未为包装工首发过一场比赛。

San Francisco, for its part, selected Trey Lance with the third overall pick in 2021; however, once Brock Purdy entrenched himself as the 49ers' starter, Lance was traded after making just four starts.

旧金山则在2021年以第三顺位选中特雷·兰斯,然而,在布洛克·珀迪坐稳49人首发之位后,兰斯仅首发4场便遭交易。

Jack Thompson, selected third overall by Cincinnati in 1979, started five games; Marty Domres, taken ninth overall in 1969, started six games for the Chargers; and Andre Ware, chosen seventh overall in 1990, started six games for Detroit.

杰克·汤普森于1979年以第三顺位被辛辛那提选中后,首发登场五场;马蒂·多姆雷斯于1969年以第九顺位被选中后,为闪电首发六场;安德烈·韦尔则于1990年以第七顺位被选中后,为底特律首发六场。

After changing teams, none of these quarterbacks managed to achieve any notable success.

这些四分卫在改换门庭之后,无一能够建功立业。

In his first appearance in nearly three years, Case Keenum sealed the victory for the Chicago Bears—merely the latest illustration of the team's capacity to prevail even without its starting quarterback.

凯斯·基纳姆在近三载以来的首次登场中为芝加哥熊队锁定胜局,而这不过是该球队在缺少首发四分卫的情况下依然能够取胜的又一例证罢了。

In short, quarterbacks who did not open the season as Week 1 starters have compiled a cumulative record of 6-0 when thrust into action off the bench; Atlanta's Michael Penix, Washington's Marcus Mariota, and the Giants' Jameis Winston joined that ranks this week, each notching a victory of their own.

概而言之,本赛季未于第1周跻身首发阵容的四分卫,在临危受命替补登场时,累计战绩为6胜0负;亚特兰大的迈克尔·佩尼克斯、华盛顿的马库斯·马里奥塔以及巨人的杰米斯·温斯顿亦于本周跻身此列,并各自斩获胜利。

After Sam Darnold went down injured in the season opener, Drew Lock took the field for Seattle in Week 2 and led the team to victory; Carson Wentz likewise replicated the feat for Minnesota that same week after Kyler Murray was sidelined by injury.

德鲁·洛克在萨姆·达诺德于揭幕战中伤退之后,第2周为西雅图披挂上阵并率队取胜;卡森·温茨亦于同周凯勒·穆雷伤退后为明尼苏达如法炮制。

Murray returned to action last week and won his game, whereas Darnold and the Seahawks fell to Mariota and his Commanders.

穆雷上周复出并赢下比赛,而达诺德与海鹰则不敌马里奥塔及其指挥官。

According to statistics compiled by ESPN, since the 1970 merger of the NFL and the AFL, this marks the first instance in which six quarterbacks who failed to secure a starting berth in the season opener went on to notch victories in Week 2 or Week 3—the sole exception being the 1987 campaign, when replacement players were fielded owing to a players' strike.

据ESPN的统计数据显示,自1970年NFL与AFL完成合并以来,此番系首次出现六名未能在揭幕战中跻身首发阵容的四分卫于第2周或第3周斩获胜利的情形,惟1987年因球员罢工而启用替代球员的那个赛季不在此列。

Keenum won in his first start for the Bears, thereby becoming a quarterback who has recorded victories with seven different teams — he had previously notched wins with Houston, the Rams, Minnesota, Denver, Washington and Cleveland.

基纳姆在熊队首次首发即告捷,由此成为在七支不同球队均取得过胜利的四分卫——此前他曾随休斯敦、公羊、明尼苏达、丹佛、华盛顿与克利夫兰斩获胜绩。

This feat equals the record held by Ryan Fitzpatrick for the most teams with which a quarterback has won games as a starter.

此番成就追平了莱恩·菲茨帕特里克所保持的四分卫以首发身份为最多球队赢球的纪录。

The spectacle that the Minnesota Vikings have presented with this start to their season is one that has not been witnessed in nearly seventy years.

明尼苏达维京人此番开局所呈现的景象,近七十年来未尝有之。

Buoyed by a dominant defense, the Vikings have stormed to a 3-0 record, even though they have yet to reach the decidedly modest threshold of 250 offensive yards in any single game.

在统治级防守的鼎力支撑下,维京人斩获3胜0负的佳绩,尽管他们任何一场比赛的进攻码数均未触及250码这一堪称平庸的门槛。

The last team to win its first three games of a season while falling short of that yardage mark in each of them dates all the way back to the 1957 Cleveland Browns — a squad coached by Paul Brown and featuring a dazzling rookie running back by the name of Jim Brown.

上支赛季前三场全胜却场场未能达到该码数的球队,须追溯至1957年的克利夫兰布朗——彼时执掌教鞭者为保罗·布朗,而阵中熠熠生辉的新秀跑卫则是吉姆·布朗。

That season, Cleveland advanced all the way to the NFL Championship Game, only to be defeated by Detroit.

克利夫兰于该赛季一路挺进NFL冠军赛,终为底特律所败。

In fact, since 1950, only two other teams have ever strung together three consecutive victories at some point in a season while failing to reach 250 yards in any of those games — Tampa Bay accomplished the feat in 1999, and Minnesota did so in 1969.

事实上,自1950年以降,仅有另外两支球队曾在赛季某一阶段斩获三连胜,且其中任何一场的推进码数均未达到250码——坦帕湾于1999年曾有此壮举,明尼苏达则于1969年做到。

Those Buccaneers advanced all the way to the NFC Championship Game, while those Vikings reached the Super Bowl before falling to Kansas City.

那支海盗队一路挺进NFC冠军赛,而那支维京人队则跻身超级碗,随后惜败于堪萨斯城。

All told, the Vikings rank among the 328 teams since 1939 that have opened a season 3-0, yet their average net yardage differential of minus-81.3 places them second from bottom among that entire group, ahead of only Seattle's minus-89.3 in 2020.

总体而言,维京人队跻身自1939年以来328支以3胜0负开局的球队之列,而其场均净码数差为负81.3,在所有这些球队中位列倒数第二,仅优于西雅图2020年的负89.3。

At the outset of this season, the Los Angeles Chargers and the Houston Texans numbered among the ten teams with the shortest odds to win the Super Bowl; yet, as things stand today, both are still desperately searching for their first win of the season.

洛杉矶闪电与休斯敦德州人本赛季伊始曾跻身超级碗夺冠赔率最优的十支球队之列,然而时至今日,两队仍在苦苦寻觅赛季首胜。

The Chargers have slumped to 0-3 in the most bewildering fashion imaginable—despite generating five interceptions and boasting a turnover differential of plus-4, they still fell to Buffalo 24-16.

闪电竟以最令人错愕的方式滑落至0胜3负——纵然制造了5次抄截、且失误差高达正4,仍以24比16不敌布法罗。

Since 2013, across the regular season and playoffs combined, teams that have generated at least five interceptions while achieving a turnover differential of plus-4 have compiled a record of 81 wins, 3 losses, and 1 tie.

自2013年起,常规赛与季后赛合计,凡至少制造5次抄截且失误差达到正4的球队,其战绩为81胜3负1平。

For Chargers fans, the other defeats that piled up before Sunday served as nothing short of a harrowing warning: their team had once fallen to Jacksonville under precisely the same circumstances in the 2022 wild-card playoffs, and had likewise succumbed to Denver in Week 17 of the 2015 season.

对闪电球迷而言,周日之前接踵而至的其他失利无异于痛彻心扉的警示:他们的球队曾于2022年外卡季后赛中在同样境况下负于杰克逊维尔,亦曾在2015年第17周不敌丹佛。

Apart from the Chargers, the last team to have swallowed defeat in such a manner dates back to the 2012 Arizona team, whose opponent was Atlanta.

除闪电队之外,上一支以如此方式吞下败仗的球队,须追溯至2012年的亚利桑那队,其对手为亚特兰大队。

For the Chargers and the Texans to secure a playoff berth, they must navigate a grueling path; across all non-strike seasons, only six teams have ever managed to reach the postseason after opening with a 0-3 record.

闪电与德州人欲跻身季后赛,非历经艰险不可;纵观非罢工赛季,开局0胜3负而终能晋级者,仅六队而已。

The only team to have accomplished this feat in the present century is Houston, which achieved it twice—last season and in 2018.

本世纪唯一臻此壮举者为休斯敦,其于上赛季及2018年两度达成。

Tracing back through history, they are, in order, Buffalo in 1998, Detroit in 1995, the Chargers in 1992, and the Jets in 1981.

溯及既往,依次为1998年之布法罗、1995年之底特律、1992年之闪电,以及1981年之喷气机。

In Sunday's matchup against the Giants, Cam Ward threw a late interception on a drive that could have sealed the victory, ultimately resulting in a loss, and his career record as Tennessee's starting quarterback since being selected as the first overall pick in 2025 thereby fell to 3-17.

周日迎战巨人队之际,坎姆·沃德于一次本可锁定胜局的推进中送出晚期抄截,终致败北,其自2025年以状元秀身份获选以来,作为田纳西首发四分卫的生涯战绩由此滑落至3胜17负。

In the context of the modern common draft era, only two other No. 1 overall quarterbacks have lost as many of their first 20 starts as he has.

在当代共同选秀语境下,生涯前20场首发中输球场次与之等量齐观的状元四分卫,除他之外仅另有两人。

Hall of Famer Troy Aikman lost all 11 of his starts as a Dallas rookie in 1989 and also stood at 3-17 through his first 20 starts; Bryce Young, taken No. 1 overall by Carolina in 2024, likewise posted a 3-17 record over his first 20 starts.

名人堂成员特洛伊·艾克曼1989年以达拉斯新秀身份首发11场悉数告负,其前20场首发战绩亦为3胜17负;布莱斯·杨2024年以状元身份被卡罗来纳选中后,前20场首发同样录得3胜17负。

Among quarterbacks selected first overall, Andrew Luck and John Elway recorded the most wins in their first 20 starts, each notching 14.

在状元四分卫之列,安德鲁·勒克与约翰·埃尔韦于前20场首发中斩获胜场最多,各为14场。

The only others to have posted a winning record after their first 20 starts were Carson Palmer (11-9) and Michael Vick (10-8-1).

其余在前20场首发后胜率逾五成者,唯卡森·帕尔默(11胜9负)与迈克尔·维克(10胜8负1平)二人而已。

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《数字内幕》每周对NFL的数据、纪录及趋势予以鞭辟入里的深度剖析。

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