Albert Breer: Patriots Are A WORSE Team Now Than They Were a Year Ago

[@classicpatsgames]

Agree with Beetle completely. It would be a shame to waste 2025 because the Krafts can’t admit they fucked this hire up.

[@dylantodd169]

I don't understand how anyone could say Mayo has potential. He wasn't a DC - he didn't grind it out 10+ years and run a dominating defense. Shanahan is where he is because he turned Matt Ryan into a pro bowler and went to the Superbowl. Mayo shared D duties with Steve and didn't even call plays

[@billwallenstein3387]

Mayo will never recover from his introduction speech.

[@SaviorCross]

Jerod Mayo, "I see race"...

[@daneaton8567]

The arrogance from the top down in this organization is disgusting. They hit a lottery ticket in Brady and now ownerships thinks they’re behind the success here. Kraft not conducting interviews and instantly giving Mayo a 5 year contract is ABSURD.

[@timhughes8851]

you are correct. Its about power, not about putting the best people in the best spots.

[@polandfresh101]

Thank you Beetle for pushing back on Breer’s nonsense. ENOUGH of the excuses for Mayo! If he needs a veteran assistant coach to babysit him, he shouldn’t be the head coach! The same goes for Covington. They clearly were not qualified for their roles and it is becoming more apparent by the week.

[@dougmurphy4348]

Krafts fell in love with him too early. They made a mistake and now have rectify it. Season ticket holders will not be happy with Mayo coming back next season

[@adriandepietro7447]

100 percent agree with all u said well done!

[@dondebolt2426]

Phil Perry, "Click-Bait" Curran and Breer should be sponsored by Par Aide! Kraft's are ProV1's for this crew.

[@trentbateman]

I would love to see them run this back and go 4-13, while watching vrabel go to another team and make the playoffs.

[@polandfresh101]

@@trentbateman That’s looking pretty likely… Especially now that they just played the Bills close…Kraft will look for any excuse to keep bozo Mayo.

[@jimb8830]

I was a Mayo fan....until his acceptance speech, that even Robert chimed in on. In that acceptance speech, Jerod stated, "A player's confidence is fragile." That's the one that did it for me. Hey, Jerod: What do you think their confidence is like NOW!!?

[@danielbliss287]

Instead of ‘Do your job’ we need signs that say ‘You said it, not me’

[@cmd31220]

I mean that really is the difference, isn't it. Strip everything else away, the successful coach had the attitude and the culture of ultimate accountability, and the failure is the exact opposite. Mayo isn't doing his job, neither are his players or staff, and he's trying to push the blame on them to save himself

[@Dlove383]

😂

[@dmgthree6051]

That's hilarious 😆

[@cmd31220]

The best part about watching a bad team is you find out really quickly who are the honest journalists and who are just mouthpieces for the coaches, players, and/or owners. And the last few years have shown Breer is the latter

[@eggynyce]

I’m usually against Beatles negativity but damn he’s definitely on point with Mayo

[@WrathMania32]

It's a shame I agree with Beetle because he's insufferable to listen to.

[@Skeemac]

The guy says it like it is, I like him

[@KhamzatKharri]

Could not agree more! He is insufferable, sure didn’t miss here though.

[@esdawt6900]

He'd be far less insufferable if he would just shut the hell up and let another person finish a thought.

[@JamesZi-z7y]

He is

[@dales769]

A physique made for radio😮

[@NicholasAngel-q2w]

Everyone but Robert Kraft knows that Mayo is lost and this is who he is.

[@bikeman9419]

Last year and even the first few games this year the Patriots had a respectable defense. Mayo and his clown show coaching staff changed all that. Mayo may be a good guy but he is way in over his head. His biggest mistakes were the staff he chose. Didn’t most of us Patriot fans have that sinking feeling when he named his staff, I know I did.

[@edwardmilano4610]

Mayo sucks

[@NicholasAngel-q2w]

Mayo is so lost. Next December, let’s see what his apologists say.

[@gmnotyet]

I knew that losing Judon and the Belichiks was gonna result in a MUCH worse defense.

[@mattmarcantonio]

We really need Beetle to interview Mayo. It’d be great TV.

[@pnwguy00]

Not at all, he'd just interrupt him every 5 seconds and we'd get nothing out of it. It would insufferable.

[@devildoge9623]

We want Vrabel!

[@Quipwit]

This is a total embarrassment - include Breer walking back his words after everyone and their mother wanted Belichick out saying they have the next great head coach - such idiocy.

[@Palefox27]

The defense was one of the best in the league. Kept almost everyone. Its one of the worst. Thats 100% coaching. Bill wasn't the problem. If BB had Maye they would be in the playoffs. They're going to get 50 put on them in Buffalo.

[@jamesb2034]

Thanks for saying what I was going to say!! And I think the defense could get even worse next year, because you know they're going to draft offense heavy again. Although probably not at LT😂

[@HashHyped]

the difference is is Beetle has 0% interaction with Mayo face to face and Breer has to see him face to face once a week….. that being said Mayo Sucks 💩 and i’ve been saying this since the day he was hired

[@alexevanoski4588]

Fire Mayo

[@shawngreene1225]

I just don’t understand why people thought Mayo would have our defense playing well. Why? He had no say in the defense. He didn’t call any plays nor come up with schemes or game plans. How are you going to keep things the same Albert when you fired the guy that kept things in order?

[@obamacare4811]

All mayo did last season was tell the players steve belichicks game plan i knew defense was going to take a hit

[@shawngreene1225]

@ Albert talking about Covington being promoted from d line coach to DC. Mayo was promoted from what? A LB coach? He didn’t prove he was a great LB coach that should skip over being DC to become head coach.

[@obamacare4811]

@shawngreene1225 mayo was technically co dc last year but I read somewhere that all he did was take steve belichicks game plan and relay it to the players because steve didn't want to run the meetings

[@HoopDizzle-l3e]

@@shawngreene1225 Mayo also pushed Steve Belichick out the door and refused to give him official DC title. Said he'd only take Steve back as some kind of associate head coach or assistant to the head coach. Covington got the DC job due to skin color and Mayo's r@cial chip on his shoulder. Mayo even thought BB was just another mediocre white guy.

[@obamacare4811]

@shawngreene1225 but kraft said it was because a trip in 2019 that made him choose mayo for his next head coach and if it was during the off-season im pretty sure it would of been a couple months into jerod coaching kraft made that dumb decision

[@JohnnyD603]

The Pat's office wasted the first year of a QBs rookie contract... they ruined his first year of development, they ruined what was a solid defense, anyone who thinks jerod is the guy is on drugs. Like hardcore ones 😂😂

[@killadekill89]

How was Maye first year ruined? Please explain. This is gonna be funny to read.

[@killadekill89]

How?

[@dchenkin02]

Drake Maye has improved significantly from college in his rookie year. Drake Maye has played better than many past rookie quarterbacks who are in the Hall of Fame.

[@ryanmulcahey9810]

Nobody goes into a QBs rookie year expecting to compete so to say they "wasted" it doesn't make much sense to me.

[@spod7575]

Beetle once again, keeping it real.... Thank you !

[@Orcasrule6355]

The elephant in the room is Bob Kraft. Look at the roster. He’s too cheap to pay for quality players. Nobody can win with this roster. They had a chance to get Calvin Ridley. Too cheap. They didn’t resign judon, uche. Kraft screwed Brady & belichick by not spending to get talent

[@ClaSeeCo_809]

This team is terrible penalties after penalties every week. No discipline no leadership just nothing

[@joeavelar2222]

Who ever made Mayo the go to guy as head coach? What has he ever proven under Bill?

[@obamacare4811]

He proved he can hold a conversation in Israel like 5 years ago 😂

[@SilentSageUSA]

What’s crazy is, all they have to do is hire Vrabel. Demote Mayo to DC, demote Covington back to DL coach (or fire him). But one single move could help a lot.

[@HoopDizzle-l3e]

Mayo should be linebacker coach, for another team. You know perfectly well he'd be a bad DC. Unless token DC with Vrabel running the defense. Mayo is trash. A linebacker coach at best. Like Troy Brown, now demoted to special teams assistant to the assistant.

[@randomflagg7331]

they act like the krafts intentionally failed their own team but if you go back to the first we all said the same thing, "wow this guy is good," there is just too much negative BS in this town. i'm certain they will fail with vrabel as well. he's not going to be prepared for the ultra second guessing and negative arm chair quaterbacking. Boston is just not a great place for outsiders. they won't be happy till they ruin everything and the team is traded. i mean seriously, who treats the greatest coach of all time like THAT, Boston.

[@CrazySauceEST]

Beetle, the voice of the people

[@jayharrington9689]

mayo has done a terrible job. thats a fact. if it means that mayo needs to go is a different question

[@yoilk81]

BB is laughing so hard

[@larryprimeau5885]

they're not playing for Mayo. Kraft isn't content with just ruining a single season, kraft jn his stubbornness and stupiditymay end up ruining one more season. Ugh

[@albertburrola9042]

Yeah because you wanted bill billichick gone!

[@1MANTHRILLRIDE]

They haven’t hit bottom yet and there’s no guarantee they’ll be better next year. Sad…

[@johnpazniokas1143]

Beetle with the GREAT insight: Mayo sounded like a frustrated player. He has had zero or near-zero experience in EVERY facet of his job. He fell back on the only NFL experience he knows... except now, his frustration looks juvenile, because HE is the BOSS.

[@pnwguy00]

That was Breer's insight, not Beetle's. Beetle just yells in the microphone like an insufferable fat kid who got bullied his entire childhood and won't let it go.

[@arthurcaesar2200]

DEI hire? Did they owe the league a solid for spygate and deflategate? Go get Vrabel.

[@user-yq1ti7zd2z]

Bertrand makes this unwatchable, dude is completely insufferable and annoying, cutting everyone off

[@PIayer_01]

I get where he’s coming from, but you invite a guest and trample over every answer so obnoxiously it makes you look like an asshole

[@ropo0077]

💯 agree. This guy on the left is aweful. Let your guest speak! He knows more about football than you.

[@mikegrace2819]

What I find even more insufferable is all local media reaction to belichick taking the UNC job. They’re all so resentful, negative and childish. Bill never respected 80% of them, and they’re showing us why.

[@rogersingh6189]

Bertrand (aka triple chin) loves talking about accountability but doesn’t look in the mirror. He’s an annoying know it all loud mouth.

[@FantasySportsZen]

Only one telling the truth though.

[@paulserafin6730]

First words out of Breer's mouth are "I don't know where the progress has been" with Mayo. There hasn't been any. He stands on the sideline w/ this stupid look on his face every Sunday like he has no clue what is going on. Kraft hired him for the HC of the NEP's 5 years ago b/c of a "feeling" he had. WTF! The whole coaching staff needs to go. Still can't believe Mayo chose Covington over Steve Belichick for DC. Definitely a DIE hire.

[@HoopDizzle-l3e]

Remember that our Kosher ownership/management cabal (Krafts, Glaser, Wolf, Rothstein) all pat themselves on the back for believing in the black excellence of our linebacker coach and our dline coach. If Mayo and Covington were white the Kosher Cabal never would have jumped through hoops to imagine without evidence that these guys were geniuses.

[@badbruise]

Beetle been taking a big steamer on coach all week😂

[@paulcalderone2891]

How Albert or Zo not tell Beetle to STFU is amazing. Even when he has a good point he still comes across as an asshat. Doesn’t let the people with knowledge actually talk! Hater. Always.

[@Vaihinger]

He ain't wrong. Mayo blows.

[@paulcalderone2891]

@@Vaihingertrue. But he wouldn’t know positive if it sat on him. I’m in camp Vrable at this point. Beetle as a message is unbearable at times. Makes you feel dirty afterwards

[@polandfresh101]

@@paulcalderone2891I’m glad he’s willing to say the uncomfortable truths. He definitely has an obnoxious tone, but everything he said about Mayo and the hiring process was spot on.

[@ravivaithinathan1222]

The reason why the New England media don’t know how to cover a bad team is because they were a great team between 2001 to 2018. They forgot how to.

[@86will1]

Love your take, Beetle!

[@ddavidone6538]

The fact that Mayo hasn’t taken over the defense from his boy Demarcus shows he isn’t ready

[@timdeacon2252]

Beetle has been on fire Mayo since game 4

[@DaKing95]

Breer is a mouth piece for the Patriots, he is not going to say anything bad about them no matter how hard people push him to

[@edwardmiller9062]

This is the same mistake they've been making the last few years with personnel and now they're doing it with coaching. They kept trying to patch the offense together when Brady left instead of hitting a full rebuild and now after they chased Bill out they do the same thing with the coaching staff instead of going through the process of rebuilding the staff.

[@thomascunningham8234]

Bertrand keeps making creepy slurping and smooching sounds into the mic.

[@Oldguard_8]

He needs some exercise -

[@georgeryanjr.776]

Beetle is correct especially with all we heard when Mayo was hired is that his years as a player counts for experience but now that things has gone sideways it’s suddenly he is “inexperienced.” This is a clown team right now. Get rid of the front office completely.

[@dennishicks6009]

Plain and simple Mayo has no experience as a coach. He was a defensive assistant coach. Get Mike Vrabal as the head coach and bring back Josh McDaniel as the OC. Problem fixed. Also they should have traded away the 3rd pick and stockpile draft picks for the future.

[@dales769]

The hubris of Patriot ownership has a lot to do with the teams' current situation. The hiring process in regards to Mayo is a prime example. No interviews of other candidates, no screening, no internal debate to reach a consensus on a candidate. The blind squirrel found the (Brady) acorn and came to think he can see like no other.

[@codyw6508]

They keep saying the Bills score in the 20’s 😂😂😂 the Bills will drop 50 on us this weekend. If Mayo is back next year we will have another year of this. Even if they wanted to fire coordinators who in their right mind would take this job knowing the head coach will take jabs at you in press conferences

[@jdgjhn1]

Yeah, go ahead and fire the black guy for the white guy after one season 🤣 this is hell the NFL has created for itself with its DEI insanity.

[@AvaArrowood-d3n]

I believe the Patriots media said in the beginning of the year to not expect much of this team, as they didn't have the talent, injuries, new coaches, etc. As a new Patriots fan, I have been turned off by the negativity by Patriots media every single day. You suck the life out of me and I will go back to watching the press conferences only. (Not that anyone cares, but that's okay!)

[@ArnieMac]

Jerod Mayo burner account

[@zeus6793]

As a new Pats fan, you did not watch a well coached, professionally run, exceptional team, that destroyed the league for 18 years. Us longtime Pats fans have a completely different set of expectations than anyone else. We know what good football is. We know what a good locker room, and a great coach, a great program look like and so this just frustrates the hell out of us. Personally, having been a fan since around 1970, I've been at the bottom with this team, and I don't like it one bit. Mayo was one of our best players for a long time, but he is badly over his head.

[@randomflagg7331]

this is how they are. they been waiting ti be negative since 02. but they couldn't because they were winning so much. i honestly believe they coulcn't wait for bill to fail so they could tear this team a part. i like mayo, and i want them to give him a shot he's a rookie, but in this town they have a lot of "race" related problems that i'd be ignorant if i didn't bring it up. it's a problem. it just is. boston has a BIG problem with minorities. i don't care what they say, it's the truth. none of them wanted this hire so they are rocking the boat. the first game could have been a prieview of things to come, they don't care. they want the guy that hasn't been here in 15 years. i say let them have him, i'm not going to watch anyways i don't want to rub elboes with these people. they are selfish people. everythng has to be "their way" they are the worst fans in the league, and with a lil luck they will ruin vrabels team as well.

[@adriandepietro7447]

@@randomflagg7331they have been negative on the pats the entire time Brady was there nothing new here

[@patricklemire9278]

NE press corps wanted Bill gone. Well here you go.

[@DM-mp6gq]

It was all money! The Krafts would have had to pay Bill his $25M, Mayo his $10M and then top dollar for a Head coaching prospect. The Krafts would have still had to pay Mayo if they decided not to give him the head coaching prospect title, as his contract had guarantees.

[@Gbird71]

When players that have played 3-4 years keep making the same mistakes it’s the coaching.

[@leesanville1372]

lol if the bills score less then 35 it would be a miracle- i predict 45-3 bills, 28-0 at half

[@kevinpatterson84]

Bertrand is such a dufus, a Pete Sheppard wannabe!

[@Jackaroo.]

Mayo is a dumpster fire. DEI hiring always has catastrophic consequences.

[@HoopDizzle-l3e]

See: Covington.

[@joelaramie9704]

STOP TALKING OVER EACH OTHER!!!! This isn't WEEI ffs!

[@jimb8830]

In order to get good players, you need to ATTRACT them! Maye is a good lure, but there is no leadership, navigation, or rudder! Jerod turns on his coaching crew? This is not ethical. Good players may want to come here because of Drake Maye, but they're NOT coming here with this type of Head Coach and dysfunction. we're looking at 4 to 5 YEARS to be highly competitive, if then. Good players ain't comin' with this wreck! (Now, maybe Vrabel, Daibol (if he's available , and even maybe Saleh for DC?)

[@r3doomey]

“Be the A-hole for a moment!” …Only a moment, Beetle?

[@ddavidone6538]

This is what happens when you hire a coach because he held a cool meeting at an airport. Now we’re gonna have to start from scratch all over again. If we get a new OC and Maye regresses like Mac did these guys are gonna be even more insufferable

[@Realjbbrown]

Interrupting constantly makes this insufferable

[@petermarshall6577]

He's a defensive coach and the defense has regressed, Covington has no credability.

[@cfennn]

You'd expect to see an improvement from the first few weeks but somehow its gone completely backwards

[@andresgirardo8481]

I didn't get the lawyer milloy game reference. It was the opener and led to a chip that same season.

[@dchenkin02]

Bills defense has given up about forty points the last two weeks. More likely the Bills win 51 to 20 with Drake Maye showing he has the athletic ability to play in cold weather.

[@RobbieC67]

They need to get rid of the coaching staff and bring Vrabel as hc and Josh McDaniels as oc.

[@thomascunningham8234]

Why is Beetle yelling

[@timgora9116]

Bro no shit the def was bad we didn’t have 3 of the playmakers we had last year (judon, Peppers, Barmore) any and almost every team takes a a few steps back. You could have had the best defensive coordinator ever in the league and it wouldn’t have made a difference whatsoever

[@dales769]

I wonder how we'd be if the Orchids of Asia staff was consulted?? (Asking for a friend).

[@UpChuckTheBoogie]

They went from belichek to Mayo what did you think was going to happen.

[@mikegrace2819]

Literally 35yrs head coaching to ZERO years

[@EastieRick]

We thought they wouldn’t hire a total buffoon in the first place.

[@UpChuckTheBoogie]

@EastieRick They went from having a coach with no quarterback to a quarterback without a coach

[@deflategate1297]

It’s a daily radio show lol what else are they gonna talk about

[@DeeBiggs-o5f]

I see that we are 30 million under the cap and didn't bring in Vets

[@TCVB491]

I don’t listen everyday like I did 2010-2016. Seems like Beetle is trying hard to be a Felger. Mayo didn’t inherit much and shouldn’t be a one and done coach. This team last year sucked. Awful offensive unit and it didn’t improve much upon that this year minus the QB.

[@patricklemire9278]

At least we learned it’s been Kraft being cheap all along

[@kenm8436]

If the Arizona game is a sign of what the Pats are going to become they're headed back to the mid-80s laughingstock era. Breer's right, the offense is better than the defense. And they have much fewer excuses seeing as the MC came from that side of the ball, the DC has been in Foxboro as a position coach, in contrast to the OC who's a recent hire. And supposedly the roster on D is better.

[@leodrosia4369]

Mid 80s laughingstock? They went to the sb in 1985 , won division in 86 and only had one losing season from 76 to 88.

[@kenm8436]

@@leodrosia4369 OK, maybe that was a bad example. I mean the era of a string of coaches like Rod Rust.

[@leodrosia4369]

@@kenm8436 90 to 92 is where they really sucked...Parcells started off 1 and 11 but won last 4 in 93 and u could tell that the team was heading in right direction unlike the clown show with exception of maye

[@petermarshall6577]

What's Zolac talking about ???

[@tuckerconley3462]

I don't know why anybody was expecting the Patriots to be a much better team this season, it's dissapointing that the defense has regressed this season so much & that you didn't get more out of the draft class, but as long as you have a potential franchise QB with Drake, there's a little hope for a brighter future. Imagine being the Giants or Raiders right now.

[@Skeemac]

Sure the situation could technically be worse, but you have REGRESSED on a terrible year prior even though you hit a home run with QB. All of your contemporaries that picked top 5 last year have gotten significantly better. That's just a failure in team management of colossal proportions

[@killadekill89]

You haven’t regressed if you found the one guy you needed the most. Defense is bad but Maye looks exactly like the top pick you drafted and wanted. With that O Line we’re lucky he’s not ruined from them puttting him out there.

[@tuckerconley3462]

​@@Skeemac Many of us thought the defense was gonna regress without Bill before the season. You had to move on from Bill , but without The Greatest defensieve Coach of all-time & steve belichick, they miss them for sure. The QB is the biggest piece & lets see if the can shore up the defense this offseason

[@obamacare4811]

​@tuckerconley3462 100% steve should of been the dc but mayo wanted his guy covington to be dc you have to have somebody that's atleast called defensive plays before on the staff

[@tuckerconley3462]

@@obamacare4811 Steve didn't come back because of Bill but before the season everyone liked the Covington promotion to DC, he called plays on the DLine. Who knows if he's the DC going forward, but this is his first year as a defensieve coordinator. Who knows if he can grow in that role or they decide to move on.

[@devildoge9623]

#wewantvrabel

[@johnhaversack1634]

Better at QB...every other area of the team-worse.

[@ZackaryJoubert]

Take out Bertrand and put in Phil. The show is substantially more enjoyable when Phil fills in. Bertrand whines all the time and takes the show hostage. He argues with Bert all the fucking time. Takes everything personal.

[@joelaramie9704]

More Phil, YES. Beetle belongs on the (garbage) other sports station with the rest of the cast offs and cretins

[@pilgrimsands4418]

When did Beetle become Ron Borges? There's plenty to criticize with the current Patriots, but his 'EVERYTHING is wrong and there's no hope of improvement' message sounds like that old crank Borges.

[@mjgasiecki]

You are missing a piece to the puzzle. Buffalo has nothing to play for in week 18…they already clinched the 2nd seed…I doubt Buffalo claps the patriots cheeks at all and New England has a solid chance to win.

[@johnhaversack1634]

2 of the last 3 are vs Buffalo..so 50 plus could be put up for the Krafts to see. Kraft will hire everyone back and go 3-14 next year.

[@jbossmantv]

This team is #tankingfortravis and I support 100%

[@JohnnyD603]

We dont need a defensive coach. We need an offensive minded HC not vrabel

[@DOUBLEOENTLIVE]

Can he let the man talk shit hell up for a moment

[@ThanosLegacy]

Beetle needs to learn how a conversation works and stop cutting everyone off, he makes me the mid day show hard to listen to at times. 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@user-vg2eg7oo5n]

Promote Mayo to President of Patriots blah blah blah, pay him off to shut up and go away(if he can shut up?) Then, hire Vrabel and burn some cash. Kraft worth over 11 billion, he can spare a little.

[@ryanmulcahey9810]

The biggest issue with this team is lack of talent. The second biggest issue is the head coach.

[@karimglasgow5518]

Exactly this. They're 3-11 because, first and foremost, they have a 3-11 roster.

[@JPMetal91]

Bert needs to invest in review mirrors for all his backpedaling

[@paulobrien2180]

Can't stand Breer he wont even answer Beetle's question. " Just answer and stop being afraid to say he sucks as the head coach .

[@yohanonshine4664]

I think they are still hot garbage and Mayo is not experienced enough to direct any of the coordinators. Another year of this and I bet Drake Maye walks after his rookie deal.

[@richschneiderman613]

The only thing better about the offense is Drake Maye everything else around drake is trash compared to other teams and that line is sooo bad it's criminal

[@EastieRick]

17:15 know one wanted to come.

[@jdemore163]

Beetle. Needs to go back doing the news. Put him aside let him. Get himself together. Zolak. Is just as bad. Bill Bill Bill. Go to NC with him

[@ericfein9851]

Beetle is hungry

[@flyingelvis8850]

Only Tools wear sun glasses indoors.

[@wesmckenna8287]

RKK IS THE PROBLEM.