Mike Tomlin's Minecraft city crashes Gerald McCoy's Drake Maye debate on First Take
The clip opened at close to thirty times a usual first day for NFL on ESPN, and a Jameis Winston video from the Giants came in right behind it.
NFL on ESPNStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 102,981 views a day, 28 times a normal first day on this channel (3,623).
'THIS IS A DRAKE MAYE PROBLEM!' 👀 - Gerald McCoy on the Patriots' issues this season | First Take
"'THIS IS A DRAKE MAYE PROBLEM!' 👀 - Gerald McCoy on the Patriots' issues this season | First Take" is a quarter-hour of Stephen A. Smith, Gerald McCoy and Mina Kimes picking apart a rough start in New England. Eleven hours after it went up on NFL on ESPN, it had passed 68,000 views. A regular video on the channel usually draws a few thousand in its whole first day.
The title promises one argument, and McCoy delivers it: his segment asks how much of the Patriots' trouble sits with the young quarterback rather than the whole roster. But the chapters wander. There is a stop in Tampa, where the Buccaneers are 0-3 and the panel asks whether Todd Bowles belongs on the hot seat. That is familiar ground for McCoy, who spent most of his career on the Bucs' defensive line. The episode then closes on something nobody expected from a debate show: Mike Tomlin unveiling a Minecraft city that, by the description's count, took him twelve years to build.
That last segment is where the comments went. Many viewers are talking about the Minecraft city, a few say they watched Tomlin's whole stream, and others point out that the quarterback in the title takes up only a small slice of the video. The comment section filled at nearly three times the channel's usual first-day pace.
It was not the only busy upload. A clip of Jameis Winston setting the record straight, shared from the New York Giants, drew almost as large a crowd, and NFL Live's take on the Cowboys acquiring Joey Porter Jr. also ran well ahead of normal.
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What viewers say
“12 years ago interior lighting was an issue” I watched his whole live, that man knows ball on and off the field 😂
@alexanderdumas-See it on YouTubeMan I sure do love it when the topic featured on the thumbnail and title only constitutes 10% of the whole video
@Samaritan16See it on YouTubeEveryone needs their little getaway too true
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- Channel
- NFL on ESPN
- Subscribers
- 906,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,003,218 (on a normal day: 767,346)
- Video published
- October 1, 2026
- Video views so far
- 68,072 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 102,981
The numbers
One First Take segment, a Giants clip and an NFL Live trade discussion all moved far faster than an ordinary upload on the channel.
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Drake Maye played his college football at which school?
Maye starred at quarterback for the North Carolina Tar Heels before New England drafted him third overall in 2024.
