The Patriots are looking to see a more vocal Drake Maye this season. (AP photo)

You see Drake Maye. This season, more than his first two years, we may hear Drake Maye.

The New England Patriots quarterback is being asked to be a bit more vocal with his teammates and that seems to be the case this training camp.

“I think you just try to get more comfortable,” Maye said Wednesday. “I think you get more comfortable, naturally, as it goes on. I appreciate my chances to be in there, and am not taking for granted my responsibility for this team, the power, and the natural respect you get for playing my position.

” I think I’m just trying to use that to the best of it’s ability and am trying to elevate the guys around me. I think it’s something that’s good to go back and forth. I think we’re pushing each other.

“They push me to be more engaging and more vocal, and I think I’m pushing them to practice better and little things like that, and just trying to have the best back and forth communication that we can.”

Maye, being more vocal, has probably voiced to head coach Mike Vrabel and the front office to keep receiver Kayshon Boutte, who is having a great camp.

“I think just the way Kayshon is approaching it, man,” Maye said. “He’s here now. He’s where his feet are at, and I’m having fun throwing it to him out there in practice. He’s doing a great job, and he makes plays when the football’s in the air.

“And I think he can speak for that, and that speaks for itself. So, I’ve had a lot of great times with Kayshon, and I’m looking forward to us getting better each and every day.”

One change for Maye this season is he’ll have a new center, Jared Wilson, who played as a guard last season. The two almost became college teammates, but Wilson went to Georgia instead.

“Yeah, I wanted to play for him back in college,” Maye, the UNC alum said. “He took his talents to bigger dreams, so I can’t blame him for that. But no, I think he’s done a great job of adapting. It’s a lot more communication. I think he was eager to get inside and play center, so he’s learning the center that he played in college.

“But in the NFL, it’s every day, and you’ve got to be durable, and you’ve got to have communication and little things like that. But he’s doing a great job, and I’m looking forward to building the center and quarterback relationship. I mean, that’s one of the biggest relationships on the field.”

Meanwhile, he has developed a relationship, obviously, with offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels as they begin year two together.

“Yeah, I think it’s great to have Coach McDaniels, who knows this offense at the best of the best. I think one of the coolest things is when I have questions or when I feel like there are problems, he always has a clip to explain why those are the answers or a reasoning behind it.

“I think that’s really cool for me, who is inquisitive and loves to ask questions and understand why we do things. To have someone who always has answers, knows what could come up before it comes up – that’s one of the best things for me. So, just hearing the same terminology, the same coaching points over and over again, being able to hit them and know them before I come out here on the practice field is great for me.

I’m looking forward to seeing what we do in year two. I know it’s going to be challenging, more challenging with the year with people studying us and having a look at us, but that’s why we’ve got to elevate and continue to get better.”