Frankly, I think that McDermott gave a masterclass in coaching. In a game that didn't matter at all to the Bills, he focused on helping his players get their contract incentives (punting on 4th down on the Patriot 3 yard line so Sam could hit an incentive?). On top of that, in a game where the Pats were better off losing and getting the #1 draft pick, every time the Bills were gaining momentum McDermott had an answer. That's some COTY work!
@@dpontes98 Poor sportsmanship? Are you serious? This isn't little league. Poor sportsmanship is not positioning your team to win a championship. Players simply can't play to lose, that's why it's up to the coach/manager to make decisions to ensure that they do - it's about positioning for the future and winning championships.
Robert Kraft as an owner hired: Bill Parcells Pete Carroll Bill Belichick All of these guys had head coaching experience, Jerod never even held a coordinator position Kraft is going back to a guy who has had a head coaching track record
If Vrabel was smart he would not sign with the Pats. He will never eclipse Belichick and they have already shown that they will dump a former player after 1 bad year.
The real problem is that in Belichick's 24 year tenure, he had his hand in EVERYTHING. The Patriots never had to develop a modern, NFL operation, but ran the team much the same as Vince Lombardi ran the Packers 60 years ago. Mayo was faced with learning how to be a Head Coach, but without the organizational structure that almost all (except the Bengals) of the support given to the other Coaches in the league. Vrabel is smart enough to take the job ONLY IF he has the final word on bulding a modern NFL support structure AND gets 5 years to do it. My guess is that Kraft cheaps out and he'll hire yet another one-and-done coach.
Mayo was brought on too fast. He went from Linebacker Coach to Head Coach. If he had spent a couple of years as Defensive Coordinator, he'd have had more experience at the higher level, and might have put together a better year. It's a shame, because he clearly has talent, but just not enough experience.
People also ignore how many staff members left after 2016ish. I mean hundreds of years of combined experience. Ernie Adams, BB's right hand man retired a few years ago. So did their RB coach of like 25 years(Ivan Fears) and 1 of the most respected OL coaches(Dante Scarnecchia). Plus Flores, Patricia, Mcdaniels, and Judge all left and poached a few guys each from the Pats staff. Daboll was their TE coach til 2017ish as well. Nick Caley went to the Rams staff over taking the Pats OC job. Then they had Nick Caserio, Monte Ossenfort, Dave Ziegler, etc poached from the front office by Houston, AZ, and LA too.
You can’t lose the locker room as HC then come back with a demotion and expect to be taken seriously. Mayo’s gotta rehab his coaching career somewhere else. It didn’t have to be like this. Kraft started making moves by following his heart and not his brain, and it shows.
I'm surprised Kraft pulled the one-and-done gun. So many people get caught up in the sunk-cost fallacy and try to make something work, even when it clearly isn't. But the real question is can Kraft put together something that will work? Is he willing to open to open the checkbook then step aside to let smarter people than him (and his son) put a team together? Too often when people have a lot of success, they wrongly assume they were the sole reason for all of the success, so can Kraft also avoid the arrogance trap? He avoided the sunk-cost fallacy trap by (quickly) firing Mayo, but let's see if he can continue humbling himself and actually rebuild a team the way it needs to be done.
Considering belicheck ruined this roster it is very early to fire the next hc however some of the things Mayo was doing just didn’t make sense. Calling the team soft was absolutely wild like bruh you’re the one coaching them they are soft because of you.
The Patriots coaching staff lambasting us fans booing them; was the coup de grace for Mayo. Fans booing the home team shows we still care. When we're getting blown out, the stands are not even half-full in garbage time, and you can hear cheering when the away team scores, that is far more depressing as a player and a coach.
Its fascinating how if this was Josh McDaniels everyone and their mom would be talking about how stupid it is to promise some guy a job 5 years ago, put it into a contract that he MUST be given the job and if he doesn't he gets paid double, AND THEN hire him without any interview process. This was so stupid and everyone is afraid to say it with their chest. I am so tired of the media coddling and protecting one side of the aisle because they feel bad for them.
The titans roster building was beyond terrible with mistakes after mistakes. Remember the AJ brown trade for a 1st round draft pick to pick another receiver?
He coached the Titans to the #1 seed with Ryan Tannehill at QB, which is the only time in the last 15 years the QB of the AFC's #1 seed hasn't been Brady, Manning, Lamar, or Mahomes.
HEAD Coaches create culture and attempt to hire the right position coaches/coordinators. That’s why you hire Vrabel. But no coach can completely overcome poor QB play…just look at Belichick after TB left. They can mitigate it a bit but you know the Browns is a dumpster fire, he’s also not the head guy there
@@williamhorton7535 should’ve never hired him in the first place then. Hardly any talent on that damn team. If I’m a coach with multiple opportunities, I’m staying away from that team
He was a DEI hire. The Patriots got a comp pick for hiring a minority. Kraft wanted to fire him when he handed the mic over to Mayo and he said I see racism. Instead of being a H.C, he was more into being an activist.
Mayo was suppose to continue the legacy of Belichick and continue the patriot way. Then every week he went counter culture and went to the media blaming players rather then taking accountability that he was getting out coached. That's why it turned for him because he wanted to do the compelte opposite of the patriot way.
The brass were expecting Mayo to take over a team in a better position than they ended up being in. That is the reality. So... with the job ahead being tougher than a rookie coach can deal with, they have decided (rightfully) to get someone with experience.
What makes the situation even stranger than other 1 and done HC seasons is that they had planned for him to follow Bill as coach and put him being the succesor in his previous contract as LB coach. You would think that if they were willing to agree to that then presumably at one point they had a lot of faith in him. It would make more sense if the team took some massive step back with him at the helm but they finished with the same record they had in Bill's last season.
I mean you either don’t hire the guy in the first place because he lacks the experience, OR you say since he lacks the experience we’re gonna give em time.
Brady was the cheat code. Most NFL games are decided by one score and having a guy that would get you 7 at the end of the game is a decisive advantage.
@@Tsepeteit has nothing to do with race, Mayo was absolutely a disaster on day one, back stabbed Belichick, back stabbed coaches, threw his team under the bus, made no halftime adjustments, the team made the same mistakes over and over again, took a top 10 defensive and made them dead last in defense, and every week the Patriots looked worse than the week before. Mayo was absolutely a disaster as a head coach and that’s why he was fired.
@@Octavis-o9l I agree. But the person I was responding to wants to make it about race. That's why he mentioned press conference when Mayo said he sees color. He was a bad coach. Period.
Mayo lost the fans in the first press conference. Mayo lost the locker room when they lost in Miami, and players were laughing in the background during a live shot. One player anonymously said the coaches were inconsistent week-to-week, making it up as they went. Wrong time, wrong place.
Going from inside linebackers coach (I'm assuming their was also an outside linebackers coach) to head coach in one year was a pretty huge jump. Even if the Pats had legit plans for Mayo to be Bill's successor they probably didn't think it would be this soon. Though I assume that they only put that clause in Mayo's contract to keep him from going somewhere else or agreeing to less money and they assumed that Belichick would remain in place until after Mayo's current contract had expired. They fired Bill, this clause came up and I wouldn't be surprised if Kraft had forgotten about it and they decided to go with it rather than buy him out. If he's good then they found their next coach, but if he's not it's an effective tank job without being obvious about it. Though the funny thing is how close they were to tanking for the number one pick with plausible deniability and Mayo as the fall guy, and then he screwed it up by winning his last game. I wonder if that's why he got fired seemingly ten minutes later. Everyone else waits until Monday but Mayo was gone before the night game even started. "You were going to get fired anyway but for screwing up our draft pick you are gone RIGHT NOW!"
Feel sorry for the man, and person, but whoa was he underprepared and unqualified for the job that was gift wrapped to him. Great leaders of men don't shy away from learning before doing and doing before teaching. He has been taking short cuts since he left the NFL as a player just expecting that his personality would make up for the incompetence and on the big stage under the bright lights it came back to bite him. He may be a good coach in another 5-7 years of real coordinator, playcalling, ops and management experience but what a sham to expect that others would just sign up to do that while he bounced from meeting to meeting and handshake to handshake thinking he could just stand on others' shoulders.
Every time I saw Jerod on the sidelines, he looked completely defeated and maybe the Kraft family saw the same thing? The look on his face, his body language, etc.
It didn’t really help Mayo that while you have a rookie QB in Drake Maye, when it all shook out, those receiving yards and TDs (32nd and 31st in the League) were going to Hunter Henry the most and then two 2023 drafted WRs in their second years (Douglas & Boutte). Maye needs a good veteran WR1/2 target in 2025. A good 900+ yd (7-10 targets, 4-8 receptions, 53 yds per game) season/ potential. There’s a bunch of those names potentially on the market you could bring in on a ‘1+Player/Club Option for 2’ deal (Diggs, Allen, Cooper, Godwin, D-Hop).
Something makes me wonder if Vrabel is the guy they want because Ben Johnson isn't interviewing with anyone and he is taking an interview with the Patriots. Would he do that if he thought it was a useless interview?
let’s see how good they or next year and then when he only has 2 and 3 wins you probably make up an excuse for him and you know why don’t you just admit it lol
As just a normal football fan I don't mean this question as antagonistic its a real question but why would people be excited to have Mike Vrabel? Why does every announcer act like Vrable is the next Andy Reid or Bill Belichick and worth so much? His win percentage is .545 and he's 54-45 and 2-3 in the postseason? He doesn't appear to be some young offensive guru or a guy who won the show as the coach like Sean Payton or Pete Carroll who New England could have had last year or this year. Any fans with more insight?
Bill Belichick, one of the greatest coaches of all-time, started his career with the Patriots at 5-13. And he had Drew Bledsoe, Kevin Faulk, Troy Brown, Terry Glenn, Adam Vinatieri, Ty Law, Tedy Bruschi, Lawyer Milloy, Willie McGinest, Ted Johnson, Joe Andruzzi, Chris Slade, Bobby Hamilton, Bruce Armstrong and Damien Woody - among others. Much better roster than Mayo was working with
the biggest and main problem with the Pats?? Robert Kraft would not and still stay out of the clubs in Florida.. dumpling all of the Pats football operations On Bill Belichick... Never Accepting Any Responsibility, for Belichick's actions.
The level of ineptitude with these coaches hiring and firing is just idiotic.....the billionaire owners can do what they want but really one year? And then Eisen and Team try to justify these moves because of who signs their paychecks........really bad look for the Patriots......hopefully Mayo got a great payout.
My Raiders are doubling down on our coaching hire mistake. At least Kraft is smart enough to admit Mayo should never be a head coach. Sometimes guys are just interim coaches and can't drive the bus for real.
Mayo was in over his head it's that simple he had no prior coordinator experience and as a head coach he got worse with each passing week refused to take accountability, threw people under the bus and always put his foot in his mouth when talking to the media.
Consider the irony of if they steal Vrabel from the Jets that is deja vu considering they did the same thing with Hoodie when they poached him from the Jets. Does anyone remember that fiasco? Parcels steps down, anoints Hoodie then Hoodie say no heads to Foxboro and the rest is history.
If the Krafts have proven that they'll fire a coach after one year, even a former player for the franchise, why should anyone want that job? The Pats will be bad again next year regardless
Theyre doing this just to take Vrabel away from the Jets. Once again taking our coveted coaching option 😢. But in all seriousness, only Urban Meyer or the like should be fired in 1 season, idk what Mayo was supposed to do to meet expectations here.
patriots had one of the least talented team in the whole nfl with a not a lot of potential young talent, asking someone to do something with that roster is fallacy
I agree it doesn't look good to not really give him more of a chance. But, it's clear he doesn't have what it takes, at this time. And i say this because the team played hard at the beginning of the year and then gave up ... There weren't very well prepared, didn't execute and again ... Got worse as the year went on. As a Pats fan ... I want Vrabel *Can't believe they won on Sunday, kills me but ... Milton is Him
That Patriot loss is still second to the Giants loss against the Colts that wound up giving the Patriots the 1st round pick in the first place. At least the Patriots didn't hang 40+ on a team that was trying hard to stay in the playoffs hunt. Geez.
@baxatakbaxatak2014 I'm not 4th... I'm a Giants fan. You see, the problem with the Giants dropping to 3rd means they probably can't draft the only 2 semi decent QBs this year. Turns out Watson may not play 2025 too due to complications healing so they probably will draft a QB. And the Titans probably will too, I think they're done with Levis. Giants screwed themselves real bad. There's no hope for a QB in 2025 for the Giants. And that sucks.
Mayo only learned under bill. Never knew any other coaching style. He came in and was just bad at everything bill teached and did. He never was even a coordinator so im absolutely on board with the firing. Vrabel come in, we pick up Higgins and get some good draft picks and we maybe can get an actual team out on the field next year....please.
I just think NE needs to pivot from the Belichick line of thinking. Typically teams go to the opposite end of the spectrum when parting with someone after so long. That said, Vrabel probably is a bad choice too.
What coach would have had success with this horrendous roster? The Patriots stink! They have holes everywhere. No defense, no playmakers on offense or defense. A shaky rookie quarterback. This is a rebuild. Mayo deserved more than a year to get his program going. A terrible firing.
People say “one and done”, but with a five year build up. To show pathetic leadership, when the crown was finally placed upon him…, this wasn’t going to be a winning formula. Mayo had to leave. Love him as a player. More often than not, it doesn’t translate to being a good coach. Brockman is such an angry little troll.
let’s see how good they or next year and then when he only has 2 and 3 wins you probably make up an excuse for him and you know why don’t you just admit it lol
Nobody's sadder about the Patriots firing Mayo than Will Levis.
😂😂😂😂😂
mayo on mayo crime
Is that supposed to be a mayonnaise joke? 😂 🤣😅
I don't get the joke
The mayo man and the man Mayo, a match made in heaven. Or hell. I can't decide.
Frankly, I think that McDermott gave a masterclass in coaching. In a game that didn't matter at all to the Bills, he focused on helping his players get their contract incentives (punting on 4th down on the Patriot 3 yard line so Sam could hit an incentive?).
On top of that, in a game where the Pats were better off losing and getting the #1 draft pick, every time the Bills were gaining momentum McDermott had an answer. That's some COTY work!
Nah good for him on the incentives but playing to lose is poor sportmaslnahip and not classy even if losing hurts the pats
@@dpontes98 Poor sportsmanship? Are you serious? This isn't little league. Poor sportsmanship is not positioning your team to win a championship. Players simply can't play to lose, that's why it's up to the coach/manager to make decisions to ensure that they do - it's about positioning for the future and winning championships.
It’s fine, bills will be eliminated by chiefs anyone’s
Robert Kraft as an owner hired:
Bill Parcells
Pete Carroll
Bill Belichick
All of these guys had head coaching experience, Jerod never even held a coordinator position
Kraft is going back to a guy who has had a head coaching track record
Yeah but still not going to fix them cuz they suck and will for now suck for 20 years.
@@Smile4MyAC130yeah hopefully!
Kraft didn’t hire Parcells, he got hired a year before Kraft bought the team.
WRONG - your facts are wrong. Check them again dude.
You never wanna be the guy after the guy. It's Vrabel's job to turn down now
Unless you have 120 mil cap space, full reign of picks, and being the guy they actually want 😂
Belichick was exposed at the end and was "not that guy" anymore.
If Vrabel was smart he would not sign with the Pats. He will never eclipse Belichick and they have already shown that they will dump a former player after 1 bad year.
@@henrywallacesghost5883 That you, Woody?
@@efrenfigueroa5014 the guy they want until you go 2-15 next year cuz the team still stinks
The real problem is that in Belichick's 24 year tenure, he had his hand in EVERYTHING. The Patriots never had to develop a modern, NFL operation, but ran the team much the same as Vince Lombardi ran the Packers 60 years ago. Mayo was faced with learning how to be a Head Coach, but without the organizational structure that almost all (except the Bengals) of the support given to the other Coaches in the league. Vrabel is smart enough to take the job ONLY IF he has the final word on bulding a modern NFL support structure AND gets 5 years to do it. My guess is that Kraft cheaps out and he'll hire yet another one-and-done coach.
Yeah, who wants to win 6 super bowl games the old way.
Mayo was brought on too fast. He went from Linebacker Coach to Head Coach. If he had spent a couple of years as Defensive Coordinator, he'd have had more experience at the higher level, and might have put together a better year. It's a shame, because he clearly has talent, but just not enough experience.
People also ignore how many staff members left after 2016ish. I mean hundreds of years of combined experience. Ernie Adams, BB's right hand man retired a few years ago. So did their RB coach of like 25 years(Ivan Fears) and 1 of the most respected OL coaches(Dante Scarnecchia). Plus Flores, Patricia, Mcdaniels, and Judge all left and poached a few guys each from the Pats staff. Daboll was their TE coach til 2017ish as well. Nick Caley went to the Rams staff over taking the Pats OC job. Then they had Nick Caserio, Monte Ossenfort, Dave Ziegler, etc poached from the front office by Houston, AZ, and LA too.
@@Jigman51 well 32 out of 32 NFL franchises decided you could no longer do it that way.... that's why Bill will be coaching kids at UNC.
part of the reason the pats suck today was BB's draft decisions
He was dreadfully unorganized, a poor communicator, and coach. But hopefully he finds his way back on a staff and can work his way back up
You can’t lose the locker room as HC then come back with a demotion and expect to be taken seriously. Mayo’s gotta rehab his coaching career somewhere else.
It didn’t have to be like this. Kraft started making moves by following his heart and not his brain, and it shows.
There is no doubt Vrabel is going to the Patriots. The Jets are going to get rickrolled once again.
Maybe bit they still not getting to the playoffs anytime soon.
If Vrabel doesn’t get hired I’m not even watching next year.
I'm surprised Kraft pulled the one-and-done gun. So many people get caught up in the sunk-cost fallacy and try to make something work, even when it clearly isn't.
But the real question is can Kraft put together something that will work? Is he willing to open to open the checkbook then step aside to let smarter people than him (and his son) put a team together?
Too often when people have a lot of success, they wrongly assume they were the sole reason for all of the success, so can Kraft also avoid the arrogance trap? He avoided the sunk-cost fallacy trap by (quickly) firing Mayo, but let's see if he can continue humbling himself and actually rebuild a team the way it needs to be done.
The wrong move was hiring him with 0.0 experience to begin with. The firing is merely an attempt to correct the original mistake.
Stupid comment
I like a owner who can admit making a mistake.
Considering belicheck ruined this roster it is very early to fire the next hc however some of the things Mayo was doing just didn’t make sense. Calling the team soft was absolutely wild like bruh you’re the one coaching them they are soft because of you.
If he had a mayo skin complexion, he would probably still be coaching 😂
They fired Mayo 90 minutes after the last game! That is unheard of! 😮😮😮
That’s the most telling part of it, not exactly sure what it says but that’s quite something, couldn’t even give the guy a night after a win
That’s how they treat blacks trust
@@santanah.6897 they hired him didnt they? he sucked - moved on.
They should have held the Mayo instead.
The Patriots coaching staff lambasting us fans booing them; was the coup de grace for Mayo. Fans booing the home team shows we still care. When we're getting blown out, the stands are not even half-full in garbage time, and you can hear cheering when the away team scores, that is far more depressing as a player and a coach.
Brockman is in football purgatory right now, and I couldn't be happier 😂
They're going after Vrabel, but it's embarrassing to go one and done with a former revered player. Two steps back.
Only if Vrabel comes in and flops. If he gets things turned around no one will remember this
@@johnchedsey1306 Yup. People conveniently forget that its a what have you done lately league.
Vrabel proved himself as the titans head coach…that’s New England football
Meyo called his defense soft. He's a clown.
Yup.. 7-10 and 6-11 in his last 2 seasons will suit the recent pat's perfectly
Been waiting for this
Its fascinating how if this was Josh McDaniels everyone and their mom would be talking about how stupid it is to promise some guy a job 5 years ago, put it into a contract that he MUST be given the job and if he doesn't he gets paid double, AND THEN hire him without any interview process. This was so stupid and everyone is afraid to say it with their chest. I am so tired of the media coddling and protecting one side of the aisle because they feel bad for them.
if this is what upsets you most today, please reevaluate your life.
@@johnchedsey1306 Im sorry you live in such a coddled sheltered bubble you think this is upset.
Good Limbaugh imitation. 🤡
😆 Pathetic
Vrabel had a 54-45 record in Tennessee and a consultant for the 3-14 Browns. What’s all the hype about?
Totally agreed. Been saying same thing. Hes just an average coach
The titans roster building was beyond terrible with mistakes after mistakes. Remember the AJ brown trade for a 1st round draft pick to pick another receiver?
He coached the Titans to the #1 seed with Ryan Tannehill at QB, which is the only time in the last 15 years the QB of the AFC's #1 seed hasn't been Brady, Manning, Lamar, or Mahomes.
Yt
HEAD Coaches create culture and attempt to hire the right position coaches/coordinators. That’s why you hire Vrabel. But no coach can completely overcome poor QB play…just look at Belichick after TB left. They can mitigate it a bit but you know the Browns is a dumpster fire, he’s also not the head guy there
You could tell the Bills were tossing that game.
Dated the mom of a Southern Miss running back when Mayo was at Tennessee. Said Mayo was the hardest hitter he ever faced
It was the right move, mayo wasnt ready
Y’all acting like he was Urban Meyer or Brandon Staley. NFL never gives anyone time to develop or learn.
@@Benjamin-fc9wwsince you clearly watched the patriots a ton this season, what were some of the things Mayo did well? I’ll wait for your non answer
@@williamhorton7535 should’ve never hired him in the first place then. Hardly any talent on that damn team. If I’m a coach with multiple opportunities, I’m staying away from that team
He was a DEI hire. The Patriots got a comp pick for hiring a minority. Kraft wanted to fire him when he handed the mic over to Mayo and he said I see racism. Instead of being a H.C, he was more into being an activist.
@@williamhorton7535 No, no, the comment was "Mayo wasn't ready", it's on YOU to prove that.
Mayo was suppose to continue the legacy of Belichick and continue the patriot way. Then every week he went counter culture and went to the media blaming players rather then taking accountability that he was getting out coached. That's why it turned for him because he wanted to do the compelte opposite of the patriot way.
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The brass were expecting Mayo to take over a team in a better position than they ended up being in. That is the reality. So... with the job ahead being tougher than a rookie coach can deal with, they have decided (rightfully) to get someone with experience.
I like Joe but he did play the bills back up defense
"When Bekichick moved on" 😂😂 he was fired Rich. You can say it
Same way when giants GM Dave Gettleman was “fired”
What makes the situation even stranger than other 1 and done HC seasons is that they had planned for him to follow Bill as coach and put him being the succesor in his previous contract as LB coach. You would think that if they were willing to agree to that then presumably at one point they had a lot of faith in him. It would make more sense if the team took some massive step back with him at the helm but they finished with the same record they had in Bill's last season.
Pete Carol was fired as Pats head coach. One and done.
Great point, and I recall that day despite not being a Pats fan. Worked out well for Pete! 😂🤷♂️
Carroll was NE head coach for 3 years. That is not one and done.
He was one and done with the jets
Carrol wasn't that bad with the Pats; his main problem was that his teams would start off fast but fade doen the stretch.
Mayo was a bad hire to begin with. Clearly not ready.
Pats are Swiss cheese. A few great players but huge holes as well.
@@henrywallacesghost5883 getting hungry. get me a ham and swiss, extra mayo
I mean you either don’t hire the guy in the first place because he lacks the experience, OR you say since he lacks the experience we’re gonna give em time.
He didn't have a great team to work with. Don't try that.
If he was wht he would’ve gotten at least 3 years as HC….
Milton did look good.
So if Mayo coaches at Duke next
Sports headlines: „Duke‘s Mayo is just Kraft Mayo in disguise“
Pats should have gone for Harbaugh when it was known he was leaving Michigan.
Jesus Rich really, REALLY loves his "welcome to the rest of us" line lol
Brady was the cheat code. Most NFL games are decided by one score and having a guy that would get you 7 at the end of the game is a decisive advantage.
Give the Jets fan a break. He’s chomping at the bit.
His press conference was the beginning of his downfall
Only for Jim Crow types.
@@Tsepeteit has nothing to do with race, Mayo was absolutely a disaster on day one, back stabbed Belichick, back stabbed coaches, threw his team under the bus, made no halftime adjustments, the team made the same mistakes over and over again, took a top 10 defensive and made them dead last in defense, and every week the Patriots looked worse than the week before. Mayo was absolutely a disaster as a head coach and that’s why he was fired.
@@Octavis-o9l I agree. But the person I was responding to wants to make it about race. That's why he mentioned press conference when Mayo said he sees color. He was a bad coach. Period.
@@Octavis-o9l I never said it was about race. Read the scawfan75's comment again. He was trying to make it about race.
@ omg sorry about that and yes, the race thing has gotten out of control, my bad
Mayo lost the fans in the first press conference.
Mayo lost the locker room when they lost in Miami, and players were laughing in the background during a live shot.
One player anonymously said the coaches were inconsistent week-to-week, making it up as they went.
Wrong time, wrong place.
Going from inside linebackers coach (I'm assuming their was also an outside linebackers coach) to head coach in one year was a pretty huge jump. Even if the Pats had legit plans for Mayo to be Bill's successor they probably didn't think it would be this soon. Though I assume that they only put that clause in Mayo's contract to keep him from going somewhere else or agreeing to less money and they assumed that Belichick would remain in place until after Mayo's current contract had expired. They fired Bill, this clause came up and I wouldn't be surprised if Kraft had forgotten about it and they decided to go with it rather than buy him out. If he's good then they found their next coach, but if he's not it's an effective tank job without being obvious about it. Though the funny thing is how close they were to tanking for the number one pick with plausible deniability and Mayo as the fall guy, and then he screwed it up by winning his last game. I wonder if that's why he got fired seemingly ten minutes later. Everyone else waits until Monday but Mayo was gone before the night game even started. "You were going to get fired anyway but for screwing up our draft pick you are gone RIGHT NOW!"
When a guy calls Mr. Kraft ‘thunder’ at a press conference announcing him as the Patriots new coach…………
So much for 'fully trained up in-house hire'....
Kraft knew that whomever followed BB would likely fail. Mayo was a bridge.
Feel sorry for the man, and person, but whoa was he underprepared and unqualified for the job that was gift wrapped to him. Great leaders of men don't shy away from learning before doing and doing before teaching. He has been taking short cuts since he left the NFL as a player just expecting that his personality would make up for the incompetence and on the big stage under the bright lights it came back to bite him. He may be a good coach in another 5-7 years of real coordinator, playcalling, ops and management experience but what a sham to expect that others would just sign up to do that while he bounced from meeting to meeting and handshake to handshake thinking he could just stand on others' shoulders.
Who the heck are you???
You work for the Pats?
If he was wht he would’ve gotten at least 3 years as HC….
Agree, dumbest move a football organization can Make, squander the first round draft pick.
It worked pretty good for the texans 2 years removed.
Every time I saw Jerod on the sidelines, he looked completely defeated and maybe the Kraft family saw the same thing? The look on his face, his body language, etc.
Maui joined the Pats coaching staff in 2019.. that was the year we stated to suck if you been watching us
It didn’t really help Mayo that while you have a rookie QB in Drake Maye, when it all shook out, those receiving yards and TDs (32nd and 31st in the League) were going to Hunter Henry the most and then two 2023 drafted WRs in their second years (Douglas & Boutte).
Maye needs a good veteran WR1/2 target in 2025. A good 900+ yd (7-10 targets, 4-8 receptions, 53 yds per game) season/ potential. There’s a bunch of those names potentially on the market you could bring in on a ‘1+Player/Club Option for 2’ deal (Diggs, Allen, Cooper, Godwin, D-Hop).
Something makes me wonder if Vrabel is the guy they want because Ben Johnson isn't interviewing with anyone and he is taking an interview with the Patriots. Would he do that if he thought it was a useless interview?
Krafts need to abandon anyone with any ties to Bellichek. Move on from that entire coaching tree.
It was in Mayo's contract that he would be the next coach.
It now, clearly, looks like Grabel was always who they wanted.
Patriots will still be terrible to mid next year anyway. This does very little to move the organization forward.
let’s see how good they or next year and then when he only has 2 and 3 wins you probably make up an excuse for him and you know why don’t you just admit it lol
Vrabel was available last year, and they passed on him.
Not the backup. If anyone was actually watching, that was not a backup Q and I don't care how great some people think Drake Mayo is.
As just a normal football fan I don't mean this question as antagonistic its a real question but why would people be excited to have Mike Vrabel? Why does every announcer act like Vrable is the next Andy Reid or Bill Belichick and worth so much? His win percentage is .545 and he's 54-45 and 2-3 in the postseason? He doesn't appear to be some young offensive guru or a guy who won the show as the coach like Sean Payton or Pete Carroll who New England could have had last year or this year. Any fans with more insight?
Bill Belichick, one of the greatest coaches of all-time, started his career with the Patriots at 5-13.
And he had Drew Bledsoe, Kevin Faulk, Troy Brown, Terry Glenn, Adam Vinatieri, Ty Law, Tedy Bruschi, Lawyer Milloy, Willie McGinest, Ted Johnson, Joe Andruzzi, Chris Slade, Bobby Hamilton, Bruce Armstrong and Damien Woody - among others.
Much better roster than Mayo was working with
the biggest and main problem with the Pats?? Robert Kraft would not and still stay out of the clubs in Florida.. dumpling all of the Pats football operations On Bill Belichick... Never Accepting Any Responsibility, for Belichick's actions.
Mayo will be lucky to find a job as a water boy now.
The level of ineptitude with these coaches hiring and firing is just idiotic.....the billionaire owners can do what they want but really one year? And then Eisen and Team try to justify these moves because of who signs their paychecks........really bad look for the Patriots......hopefully Mayo got a great payout.
My Raiders are doubling down on our coaching hire mistake. At least Kraft is smart enough to admit Mayo should never be a head coach. Sometimes guys are just interim coaches and can't drive the bus for real.
I think too it it had to do with no one draft pick too that he lost
pretty sure losing the #1 overall pick had alot to do with his firing as well
Mayo was in over his head it's that simple he had no prior coordinator experience and as a head coach he got worse with each passing week refused to take accountability, threw people under the bus and always put his foot in his mouth when talking to the media.
Don't worry about Mayo, he has a bright future in the XFL
It will be either Vrabel or Brian Flores
I dont care about Mayo getting fired....but if they don't get Vrabel they are REALLY screwing up
Mike Vrabel. Easy as 123
Consider the irony of if they steal Vrabel from the Jets that is deja vu considering they did the same thing with Hoodie when they poached him from the Jets. Does anyone remember that fiasco? Parcels steps down, anoints Hoodie then Hoodie say no heads to Foxboro and the rest is history.
Just say it - Mayo was fired for not losing week 18, which would have gotten the team the #1 pick.
Gotta stay in the Arch Manning sweepstakes
If the Krafts have proven that they'll fire a coach after one year, even a former player for the franchise, why should anyone want that job? The Pats will be bad again next year regardless
yay, go vrabes 👏
Why not just pivot from the plan last offseason if you wanted to kneel at the Vrabel throne so badly??? Makes no sense to give a coach one season.
Great ending line by Brockman. lol
He was set up to fail
If I had a nickel for every time fans have been wrong...............
Theyre doing this just to take Vrabel away from the Jets. Once again taking our coveted coaching option 😢. But in all seriousness, only Urban Meyer or the like should be fired in 1 season, idk what Mayo was supposed to do to meet expectations here.
patriots had one of the least talented team in the whole nfl with a not a lot of potential young talent, asking someone to do something with that roster is fallacy
Jim Crow type move… iykyk
Matt Patricia....only man for the job
Mayo was fired for losing the number one pick, I would have fired him too...
The Titans look stupid for firing Vrabel
I agree it doesn't look good to not really give him more of a chance. But, it's clear he doesn't have what it takes, at this time. And i say this because the team played hard at the beginning of the year and then gave up ... There weren't very well prepared, didn't execute and again ... Got worse as the year went on.
As a Pats fan ... I want Vrabel
*Can't believe they won on Sunday, kills me but ... Milton is Him
That Patriot loss is still second to the Giants loss against the Colts that wound up giving the Patriots the 1st round pick in the first place.
At least the Patriots didn't hang 40+ on a team that was trying hard to stay in the playoffs hunt. Geez.
That loss is 4th, if you count the two Super Bowls they won against you 😂 And now YOU’RE fourth!
@baxatakbaxatak2014 I'm not 4th... I'm a Giants fan.
You see, the problem with the Giants dropping to 3rd means they probably can't draft the only 2 semi decent QBs this year. Turns out Watson may not play 2025 too due to complications healing so they probably will draft a QB. And the Titans probably will too, I think they're done with Levis.
Giants screwed themselves real bad. There's no hope for a QB in 2025 for the Giants. And that sucks.
Mayo only learned under bill. Never knew any other coaching style. He came in and was just bad at everything bill teached and did. He never was even a coordinator so im absolutely on board with the firing. Vrabel come in, we pick up Higgins and get some good draft picks and we maybe can get an actual team out on the field next year....please.
I just think NE needs to pivot from the Belichick line of thinking. Typically teams go to the opposite end of the spectrum when parting with someone after so long. That said, Vrabel probably is a bad choice too.
Mayo was/is cam Newton. You never wanna follow the legend so lets get a guy in here to take that mantle now we'll get "our guy"
Just a thought: I bet Mayo won the last game on purpose while Kraft want the last game lost so they can get #1 pick overall
Rex Ryan has already declared that he WILL be the Jets next head coach.
Patriots never believed he would be coach of the future that’s bs Eisen
Should never have hired him. Everyone knew that but ownership. This just looks bad now
His job was never to win games. It was to set a culture and build the defense. He did neither
Could be worse...we could be Jets fans.
What coach would have had success with this horrendous roster? The Patriots stink! They have holes everywhere. No defense, no playmakers on offense or defense. A shaky rookie quarterback. This is a rebuild. Mayo deserved more than a year to get his program going. A terrible firing.
Kraft caught lightning in a bottle. He will not do it twice. I doubt, he will make the Pats a winner again.
People say “one and done”, but with a five year build up. To show pathetic leadership, when the crown was finally placed upon him…, this wasn’t going to be a winning formula.
Mayo had to leave. Love him as a player. More often than not, it doesn’t translate to being a good coach.
Brockman is such an angry little troll.
VRABEL VRABEL VRABEL
Yall didn’t given him enough time but I know why.
By winning that last game remember this.... He showed he did not care about the future of the team. Selfish move. Does that win look good on a resume.
Look at you, Rich...what a detective...you think Vrabel is being considered!?!?
Mayo hire was a DEI hire. Mayo’s introductory press conference was evident
let’s see how good they or next year and then when he only has 2 and 3 wins you probably make up an excuse for him and you know why don’t you just admit it lol