EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Quarterback Drake Maye spends his Friday nights each week looking through the play sheet offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels creates. It’s basically a menu of formations and concepts the New England Patriots think will work against their coming opponents.

It’s a final chance for Maye to refresh his knowledge of the plays for that week, but it’s also a chance for him to highlight the ones he especially likes. So he takes a pen and puts a star next to the ones he really wants McDaniels to call. Sometimes it’s because the play worked in practice, and sometimes it’s just because he likes a matchup he thinks he’ll get on the play.

This week, the Patriots’ play sheet was quite different from the one for any other game. Without two of their top wide receivers and the whole left side of their offensive line, they had to morph their plan. With a group heavy on backups, there would be a lot on Maye’s plate.

Still, when Maye sat down Friday night and grabbed his pen, he kept finding plays he liked.

“I starred a lot of them this week,” Maye said.

It led to an afternoon when Maye made perhaps his best case yet to win the NFL’s MVP award.

It wasn’t just that he became the first quarterback in league history to throw for 250-plus yards with five touchdown passes and a completion percentage above 90. And it wasn’t just that he so efficiently dismantled the New York Jets by leading touchdown drives on each of the six possessions he played before being pulled in a 42-10 win. It was that Maye did all of that in a game in which the Pats needed to rely on so many backups.

After Stefon Diggs, Maye’s second-leading wide receiver Sunday was undrafted rookie Efton Chism, who caught his first NFL pass in the first half. Maye’s next most productive wide receiver was fellow rookie Kyle Williams, whose three catches were a career high.

A running back had the second-most receiving yards. A tight end had the third-most. That doesn’t happen without a quarterback who is seeing the field better, arguably, than any other quarterback alive.

“They don’t give me a vote,” coach Mike Vrabel said after the game of Maye’s MVP case. “But there’s nobody else that I want as our quarterback.”

The stats are bordering on absurd for Maye.

Sunday, he became the first quarterback in league history to have multiple games in a season with 200 or more passing yards, multiple touchdown passes and a completion percentage over 90 percent.

And the stats are bordering on absurd for a Patriots team that has now won 12 of its last 13 games, completed a perfect 8-0 regular season on the road (which had only been done 11 times before in league history) and has the league’s third head coach to notch 13 or more wins in his first season with a team.

But there’s no disputing that the biggest driver of the success has been Maye’s play.