Last year, we saw Drake Maye go through 17 regular-season games as if he’d come down from the clouds to perform an intervention.

He was perfect. He was genuine. He had that “aw, shucks” vibe that won you over immediately. Maye had some games in which he was just ordinary, especially in the playoffs, but he was never abjectly horrible.

That all ended Wednesday night.

It does not matter what else he did in the Patriots’ 13-10 loss to the Seattle Seahawks. He could have found a way to end the wars in the Ukraine and Iran; rescued us from climate change; cured cancer; and put an end to halitosis, for good.

And Patriots fans would have yawned in unison.

Mention the three interceptions on the last three drives — especially the final one — and you’ll have all those fans ready to pack Maye in a suitcase, put him in a freight car, and send him back to Huntersville, North Carolina.

What on earth happened? Typically (for him), he took ownership right away, but big deal. So did Mac Jones — the quarterback he most resembled Wednesday.

And all I could think of, while digesting interception No.3 — on a pass that didn’t have to be thrown and on a play that didn’t need to be called — was that this was not going to be Jones redux. We’re not going to go through this again.

When Seattle took the lead at 13-10, with 5:50 to go, some of us (like me) chalked this one up as a loss. Stupid interceptions. Stupid Maye.

But 5:50 in FDT (Football Daylight Time) is an eternity. Within that 5:50 are timeouts, incompletions, and other instances in which the clock stops and you have time to regroup.

And the Patriots smartly moved the ball downfield. At the very least, they could tie the game with a field goal.

Facing a third-and-5 from the Seahawks’ 16 (!), the Patriots threw into double coverage in the end zone. The intended target was Mack Hollins. But Josh Jobe jumped the route, primarily because Maye, throwing off balance, put up an air ball Jayson Tatum would have envied.

Why call the play? Yes, it would have been nice to score a touchdown and win the game. But yards were hard to come by as the Patriots got deeper in Seattle territory. Kick the field goal.

Maye said it was impatience. My term for it is “getting greedy.” Even if it was a great pass, why put it up there to be picked off?

Secondly, in a case such as that, if it’s not there, throw the ball out of bounds and take the field goal — and your chances.

The NBC broadcasters, Mike Tirico and Cris Collinsworth, were aghast. Both vehemently blasted Maye for throwing the pass, and a couple of hundred thousand folks who were watching on TV let go a fusillade of expletives, too.

Here we were, on a last-minute drive to take the Seahawks into overtime, on the road. That would have been acceptable even if it ended up in a loss. The Patriots would have gone out of there knowing it was the poor performance in the Super Bowl that was a fluke.

Instead, they went home with the tails between their legs, betrayed by last year’s MVP runner-up.

It’s funny, though. We all pegged this game as a loss. Then, the Patriots almost won and we allowed ourselves some hope. Ultimately, they lost hideously, which left us pulling our hair out and screaming like lunatics.

Maye will recover from this, whereas Jones couldn’t. But athletes, if they compete long enough, are going to come a cropper once in a while. In the words of The Shirelles, “Mama said there’ll be days like this.” If you’re any kind of competitor, you’ll learn from those embarrassments.

Jones could never learn. Maye will.