REACTIONS: Patriots FIRE Jerod Mayo after LOSING #1 pick with season-ending win

[@Xenferno]

Biggest red flag with Mayo was he never got the defense playing good, while being a defensive minded head coach.

[@conor2439]

This guy wasn't an anything minded head coach. He has no specialty at all with Xs and Os. Unless he was surrounded with great coordinators, he wasn't bringing this team anywhere.

[@dancaruso6372]

The roster is terrible, but Mayo showed zero signs of doing anything positive. Fred Toucher is a clown.

[@GhostTrain311]

That's what I'm saying. It goes beyond the fact that no coach would have success with that roster. Mayo's communication and decision making is bad and he also lost the locker room. That wasn't going to change next year.

[@adamnoce4172]

Players weren't getting better and you're not bringing any talent to New England with Mayo. He's not ready. Poor hire by the Krafts.

[@adamnoce4172]

​@@dokedoker3340give him a top 10 defense and make it 25. Put his foot in his mouth daily. Players like Keion White (top 3 defensive player) want out. The way they lost games were bad. Emotions cloud judgement. Cut your losses.

[@EastieRick]

Mayo wasn’t as smart as you guys made him out to be. Mayo did the work to get the job never did the work to do the job.

[@coreypillsbury9313]

The guy wasn’t able to build a team? The front office supplied the bottom of the barrel players. Mayo never picked the roster. Normal teams that want to win hire a GM coach combo. You’ll never be a winning team if the HC and GM aren’t on the same page. Yall are a bunch of couch coach wanna bes. Keep pretending any of you would make it as a NFL coach🤣🤣

[@EastieRick]

@ the guy was fired because he had no management skills not because of what he had to manage. everyone inside and out knew what he had to work with do you understand now Dough boy.

[@coreypillsbury9313]

@ again you cannot make a shit roster good🤣 I’ll only agree with that in respects to the defense. Almost identical to last year but a lot worse gameplay wise. How do you manage a team that’s 1) bottom of the league in terms of talent 2) no one wanted to actually catch the ball consistently. You’ll never had 2 rookie receivers 1 of them wasted plays on the field for most of the season and one couldn’t figure out how to run routes. They had a lineman QUIT THE GAME OF FOOTBALL mid season. He was managing a team with minimal power. Do you understand that most calls did not fall on him like they did on BB? Don’t be so dense. No rookie coach managed a team well

[@EastieRick]

@ who are you to say any of that you in the know about what was going on internally ? no you don’t , what your getting is Hersey what I’m saying is what I can see on the field and in his press conferences and how prepared the team looked their lack of discipline that’s where I’m coming from not second hand grapevine parroting. We all heard how smart Mayo was all these media guys were saying he can be a CEO of a company Blah blah blah but they didn’t know, they were parroting what everyone else was. Now I don’t know if Jerod is an intelligent guy but I do know he isn’t smart. And I know what I can see and hear with my own eyes and ears.

[@ZacharySkipworth]

@@coreypillsbury9313you’re missing the point of his argument. Only a moron goes out and drags his subordinate coaches in the press conference every other week. Only a moron trashes his own team. I’ve been apart of college teams where the head coach trashes one side of the ball in favor of the other. That type of team never wins. Mayo should go coach high school ball and learn how to actually lead men. He may understand Xs and Os but he doesn’t understand basic leadership. I’d fire him too.

[@BrooksOrlando]

I was listening to Middlekauff say it was a trainwreck behind the scenes. Mayo was in way over his head. Coaching staff was at odds with each other…it sounds like they made the right call. Like Panthers didn’t have a good record this yr either, but you saw signs that team was responding to rookie HC. Pats seemed to get worse as the season went along. Throw Bills game to the side too…they were mentally checked out waiting for playoffs. This last win means nothing.

[@johnhaversack1634]

Patriots/Krafts decision-making over the last 5 plus years has been a disaster after disaster. It all started with letting the GOAT go to TB a win a SB.

[@indarkestknight9778]

People are going to figure out Kraft without Bill Belichick is like Jerry Jones without Jimmy Johnson. Listening to stories from Bill Parcells and Pete Carroll about how cheap the Krafts are, what Bill and Brady did over 2 decades is nothing short of a miracle.

[@osonhouston]

​@@indarkestknight9778One could make the same point about Belichick without Brady.

[@_etoure_]

vrabel outcoached belichik in the playoffs, just give him a good team and there's no way you can have doubts about his coaching ability. along with his connections here it just seems like a no-brainer

[@Urfeelingsdontmatter]

Again this show is clueless. The patriots went backwards as a team during the season. Period. No one was judging by wins, it was being judged by progress and so many weeks the patriots were not even prepared to play

[@ChuchuJS]

it's too early to hear fred's voice, i'll come back in the noon.

[@ScottCallahanSr]

So Mayo knew for at LEAST 2 years he was next and was NOT READY. That is on him. He lost the job not because of the record. He lost the job because it was a dumpster fire in the locker room with players,at the podium and dumb calls on the field. You do not put your franchise behind BACKUP lineman who are worse than the starters (who are the leagues worst) in a blowout loss late in a game. You don’t put a potentially concussed franchise back on the field in a blowout loss late. You don’t say one thing at the podium or on radio and then DO THE OPPOSITE. HE was a D coach YET he couldn’t HELP that side EVER. Sorry i think Bill never named a D coordinator because Jared couldn’t handle the job. SORY. Cut the cord and START OVER front office and coaches. NOTHING to do with anything other than they knew he is NOT THE GUY. Half empty stadium booing and pulling for loses..CLOWN SHOW. Finally the Krafts did something right. GET REAL COACHES/FRONT OFFICE and PAY in Free Agents. STOP BEING CHEAP.

[@Orcasrule6355]

I think Kraft fired him because he told Mayo to tank for the #1 pick & he didn’t. Explains the timing

[@ryanmulcahey9810]

YEP

[@conor2439]

1 year is plenty of time to see if someone is cut out for a job or not. The record shouldn't be held against Mayo, Kraft obviously saw his leadership qualities, organizational skills, intelligence with Xs and Os, and lack of fire and enthusiasm and made his decision. We all saw Mayo was not going to be Dan Campbell or Mike Tomlin or Shanahan or McVay. To win Superbowls you need a top tier QB and a top tier head coach. Mayo must have been so bad that Kraft only needed about 355 days to figure out he wasn't going to be that guy.

[@owen6114]

Its not about the record. If we went 1-16 but we showed a good culture and comradery he would still be our coach. Constantly diverting blame, passive aggressive remarks, and throwing others under the bus is what got Mayo fired.

[@Fino-plays2K23]

Wolf needs to go eventually. No way a new HC is going to take the job if he can't pick a GM to work with

[@rbdvs67]

The tree things Vrabel wants in his new franchise is: 1. A quarterback 2. Stable ownership 3. Good communication with Football ops. Sorry Jets but you fail all three in spades. Mike Vrabel will be the next HC of the NEP lol

[@michaellalli7693]

It’s wasn’t about Wins and Losses - it was being a disciplined team that improved every month. There was little accountability and Mayo just wasn’t qualified

[@salbec143]

I think he knew before the game that he was fired either way and purposely tried to win to screw the Krafts out of the #1 pick...

[@ryanmulcahey9810]

I agree completely what a jackass

[@thurmanwilliams7961]

They put it in his contract in 2021 that he would be the next HC. He had never been a HC. Hell, he wasn't even a DC anywhere. They hired him because they liked the person reguardless of his experience.

[@GrumpyPete78]

Bill went 5-11 in his first year, inheriting a mixed bag roster built by Bobby Grier and Pete Carroll. Difference is Bill knew what he was doing and Mayo had absolutely no clue. His staff was just as bad as the roster. Better to pull the plug now as opposed to 3 years of a circus.

[@prassassin2828]

But the problem was Mayo didn’t have a vision for the team and his players said and did what they wanted. That was a major issue. Can I get a radio job to just all agree all the time we need at least one guy on here to never agree with some of the dribble.

[@AustinMinnis]

Tyreek hill want out of Miami, NE should make that a priority this off season to go get him

[@mjgasiecki]

This is what bugs me about people clamoring for Kraft to be in the hall of fame…I ask my self, for what? What did Kraft do outside of hiring a once in a generation coach who acted as the Gm that built the teams that won super bowls…

[@NorEEzta]

He lost command of the locker room weeks ago with no apparent progress in any facet of the game.

[@JohnnyDouchbag-nr5yf]

Mayo made fun of his boss in the initial press conference! I knew he'd be gone after 1 yr!

[@jevonwillis6477]

Jarod Mayo has no coaching skills,he SUUUUCKS,I'm glad he got fired,now we can move forward

[@pa-meenterprise4954]

Mayo stuck it to them on the way out . Good for him!!! They played him for a patsy.

[@arthurraygotit]

It’s always 5pm somewhere for Fred

[@georgealvarez1195]

He's the JJ Reddick of the NFL. Looks good, sounds smart but actually a horrible leader and horrible teacher

[@SkeletorsSon]

I hope Mayo deliberately won out of spite knowing he was getting fired. No one will succeed while Wolf is here not even Belichick could.

[@KenyouTV]

He didn’t do himself any favors. Team got worse even with improved QB play and the defense regressed significantly. Not even mentioning his awful press conferences where he’s always throwing people under the bus or saying something questionable he just wasn’t ready for the role Wolf needs to go too or it won’t even matter anyway. Kraft needs to clear everything out and start from scratch

[@johnhaversack1634]

Wolf has to go..year one..he did nothing positive for this team...Maye was a free space.

[@thomascierpikowski3699]

wolf definitely has to go you can't win in the nfl without knowing how to draft well

[@oldandangry44]

Really didn’t like the Mayo decision but would welcome him back if Fred was fired instead!

[@ryanmulcahey9810]

To say it's not on Mayo or Wolf is ridiculous. Sure, Kraft(s) didn't put them in a good position but to absolve them of all blame is flat wrong.

[@ericveneto1593]

Does Mayo go into the booth or become a DC/position coach

[@firstclass7918]

Mayo deserved too be fired but the real problem is Kraft u hire a guy with no experience too coach a terrible roster then hire all first year coaches as well he set this up too fail he’s the problem with this team then he kept wolf who has done the worst job out of everyone

[@thomaswood1158]

7:21-7:51: the thing is they didn’t “keep the same structure”. In fact, they made it a media focal point to now be the anti-Belichick Patriots and it showed…horribly. I fully understand that’s a directive that came from Kraft, however, if Mayo just came out and coached, instead of disparaging the culture (and one of two reasons why NE has their rings) by focusing on “fun and happiness and games and hoopla”, which translated to an on the field product that even Brockton High School stood a fairly decent chance of beating, then maybe the fans would defend Mayo. We’re seeing it with Alabama as well, coaches trying to be the “anti-Saban” instead of just being a damn coach. So no, tears will not be shed for Jerod Mayo.

[@adamnoce4172]

Mayo was not ready to be a head coach. Poor hire and the Krafts cut their losses. I think he lost the locker room. Keion White for example. Unfortunately Mayo and the organization were incompetent

[@philiptan5814]

other organizations didn't know, just like us, how pathetic mayo is. lets see how many teams want him now lmao

[@ropo0077]

Where is the confirmation that AVP were fired? At the moment there is no.

[@ryanmulcahey9810]

Who cares?

[@ropo0077]

@ No one cares. 😅

[@steelmongoose4956]

Who cares about his coaching? The real question is whether he destroyed white supremacy and colonialism. 😄

[@johnhaversack1634]

..DC/positional coaches all need papers/throw in Wolf/Groh..all the 50 scouts who know NOTHING about the draft/talent out of college/FA.

[@Usedtobecool]

Pats done, Robert needs to sell the team , he’s the problem and a lot don’t realize that

[@tomascarlsson1856]

Kraft old and sons no clue just jay sayers, stressed move

[@Stoicgator]

Mayo was interviewed for Rooney Rule. The Kraftys were played.

[@NickGarof]

Rooney Rule had nothing to do with it. Mayo was the only candidate they interviewed. They handed him the job while Bill was still the coach.

[@Xenferno]

Mayo was never interviewed so the Rooney rule had nothing to do with it

[@thekid3375]

Can’t wait for drunky to stammer and stutter his way through this imbecilic diatribe