BREAKING: Patriots HC Jerod Mayo Fired

[Harry B]

Everything I’ve heard about him over the season has been objectively wack.

I don’t think is the record as much as it is those other factors. Like interviews, sidelines, player mgmt, leadership abilities etc.

Some people just need longer time at the assistant positions, this time it was just unfortunate that it was a young black dude

 

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Lol. I've noticed this is a recurring theme across various sports. Fans of other teams offering uninformed opinions about another team's coach firing. I remember being guilty of this a few yrs ago in the other football thread. I've learnt my lesson since.

Canty and these media guys either are ignorant, biased or playing a role. They are on tv afterall.

Kraft used to (not sure if he still does) take current and former pats players to Israel to view the religious and historical landmarks. According to him, when Mayo went one of those trips in 2015 and that's when he had this fantasy of Mayo as HC. I'm surmising that Kraft knew of his coaching aspirations and Mayo showed reverence to the culture and the land, probably also obseisanace to the Israeli people. Kraft is a zionist, he'd take delight in seeing such adulation. Mayo calls him Thunder, short for Thundercat.

If anyone's not aware of Mayo and Kraft on the Israel trip then it shows their level of ignorance on this matter cause it's been said numerous times since last off-season.

Kraft got Mayo a job at Optum by 2016 as Senior Vice President of Business Operations. He put into his contract while B.B was still there that Mayo was the next HC. That's only ever been done once before. This firing is humiliating for Robert Kraft, it's the last thing he envisioned doing.

He fukked up hiring a coach who's only experience is as an inside linebackers coach, thought he was such as galvanising leader that it would cover for the defiencies of both Mayo and the team offensively.

Last yr, the team would've made the playoffs if they had Maye and Slye (a mediocre kicker) cause the defense was really good. They lost multiple one score games due to multiple missed short range kicks. Now the entire roster looks poor cause Mayo can't coach defense and can't improve nor maintain the performance of the inside LBs on the team. Guys on defense were putting their worst film ever on tape.

The Krafts approval rating amongst their fans is probably bottom 10 amongst other owners in the league, Mayo hiring and its outcome is a major part of that. Mayo had to be a good HC if he continued or their entire public and league perception would've been irrevocably damaged, especially given the manner of the hiring. It was evident very early on just how unprepared he was and it showed on and off the field.

It simply had to be done and Kraft should get lambasted for the hiring, not the firing. Mayo should be pissed for the firing but he lacked humility and self-awareness to know that it was to soon for him.

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Any Patriots fans care to elaborate?

Kraft handpicked Mayo 5 years ago and said he followed his instincts. He compared identifying Mayo as Bill's successor as important as the moments he met his late wife, current wife, and hiring Bill -

Patriots' Robert Kraft Reveals ‘Mayo Moment’

Rather than a moment from Jerod Mayo's playing or coaching days, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft singled out a personal experience as the time he realized Mayo was fit to be a head coach.

www.si.com

"The week we spent together in the Holy Land in 2019 really helped strengthen my convictions about how special Jerod is as a person and how capable I thought he would be as a head coach in this league," Kraft said.

Kraft compared this conviction to three other moments - meeting both his late wife Myra and his wife Dana and hiring Belichick in 2000.

Those are three pillars in Kraft's life. Mayo now forms a fourth.

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As image conscious as Kraft is, I can't imagine he wanted to fire Mayo and admitting he was wrong.

 

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A comment I've read somewhere else

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Lol. I've noticed this is a recurring theme across various sports. Fans of other teams offering uninformed opinions about another team's coach firing. I remember being guilty of this a few yrs ago in the other football thread. I've learnt my lesson since.

Canty and these media guys either are ignorant, biased or playing a role. They are on tv afterall.

Kraft used to (not sure if he still does) take current and former pats players to Israel to view the religious and historical landmarks. According to him, when Mayo went one of those trips in 2015 and that's when he had this fantasy of Mayo as HC. I'm surmising that Kraft knew of his coaching aspirations and Mayo showed reverence to the culture and the land, probably also obseisanace to the Israeli people. Kraft is a zionist, he'd take delight in seeing such adulation. Mayo calls him Thunder, short for Thundercat.

If anyone's not aware of Mayo and Kraft on the Israel trip then it shows their level of ignorance on this matter cause it's been said numerous times since last off-season.

Kraft got Mayo a job at Optum by 2016 as Senior Vice President of Business Operations. He put into his contract while B.B was still there that Mayo was the next HC. That's only ever been done once before. This firing is humiliating for Robert Kraft, it's the last thing he envisioned doing.

He fukked up hiring a coach who's only experience is as an inside linebackers coach, thought he was such as galvanising leader that it would cover for the defiencies of both Mayo and the team offensively.

Last yr, the team would've made the playoffs if they had Maye and Slye (a mediocre kicker) cause the defense was really good. They lost multiple one score games due to multiple missed short range kicks. Now the entire roster looks poor cause Mayo can't coach defense and can't improve nor maintain the performance of the inside LBs on the team. Guys on defense were putting their worst film ever on tape.

The Krafts approval rating amongst their fans is probably bottom 10 amongst other owners in the league, Mayo hiring and its outcome is a major part of that. Mayo had to be a good HC if he continued or their entire public and league perception would've been irrevocably damaged, especially given the manner of the hiring. It was evident very early on just how unprepared he was and it showed on and off the field.

It simply had to be done and Kraft should get lambasted for the hiring, not the firing. Mayo should be pissed for the firing but he lacked humility and self-awareness to know that it was to soon for him.

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I said the whole time, the issue was the hiring. I am not sure why Kraft was so hung up on Mayo being the successor. I believe Kraft wanted it to work but quickly realised the job was to much for Mayo, if he didn't fire him now it would have been midway through next season. Sucks for Mayo but this was a step to far in his coaching career. With all the coaches out there they could have interviewed they zoned right in on Mayo. This one is on Robert Kraft, the next hire is crucial.

 

[EzekelRAGE]

Steve Wilks in Carolina was 6-6

Panthers have won 9 games the past two years combined but young cac canales is a safe genius going 5-12 this year

Bringing up Wilks in carolina panthers kinda dumb. Wilks was interim. Not many interim coaches go on to be the HC of the team. Last one off the top of my head may have been Pierce with the Raiders.
idk why you framing the two years as canales being in charge for those two years.
Frank Reich was the coach last year, got fired during the season and another coach took over as interim, record was 2-15.
This is Canales first year and they went 5-12

Canales is probably safe because:
1 - they went 5-12 this year, when they went 2-15 last year.
2 - No one wants to work for Tepper
3 - Have you not been watching the panthers? Bryce is improving and seems to have turned it around. The narrative from him went from one of the biggest busts to possibly being a decent qb. That's gonna buy the HC time.

 

[JarrodG]

A comment I've read somewhere else

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Lol. I've noticed this is a recurring theme across various sports. Fans of other teams offering uninformed opinions about another team's coach firing. I remember being guilty of this a few yrs ago in the other football thread. I've learnt my lesson since.

Canty and these media guys either are ignorant, biased or playing a role. They are on tv afterall.

Kraft used to (not sure if he still does) take current and former pats players to Israel to view the religious and historical landmarks. According to him, when Mayo went one of those trips in 2015 and that's when he had this fantasy of Mayo as HC. I'm surmising that Kraft knew of his coaching aspirations and Mayo showed reverence to the culture and the land, probably also obseisanace to the Israeli people. Kraft is a zionist, he'd take delight in seeing such adulation. Mayo calls him Thunder, short for Thundercat.

If anyone's not aware of Mayo and Kraft on the Israel trip then it shows their level of ignorance on this matter cause it's been said numerous times since last off-season.

Kraft got Mayo a job at Optum by 2016 as Senior Vice President of Business Operations. He put into his contract while B.B was still there that Mayo was the next HC. That's only ever been done once before. This firing is humiliating for Robert Kraft, it's the last thing he envisioned doing.

He fukked up hiring a coach who's only experience is as an inside linebackers coach, thought he was such as galvanising leader that it would cover for the defiencies of both Mayo and the team offensively.

Last yr, the team would've made the playoffs if they had Maye and Slye (a mediocre kicker) cause the defense was really good. They lost multiple one score games due to multiple missed short range kicks. Now the entire roster looks poor cause Mayo can't coach defense and can't improve nor maintain the performance of the inside LBs on the team. Guys on defense were putting their worst film ever on tape.

The Krafts approval rating amongst their fans is probably bottom 10 amongst other owners in the league, Mayo hiring and its outcome is a major part of that. Mayo had to be a good HC if he continued or their entire public and league perception would've been irrevocably damaged, especially given the manner of the hiring. It was evident very early on just how unprepared he was and it showed on and off the field.

It simply had to be done and Kraft should get lambasted for the hiring, not the firing. Mayo should be pissed for the firing but he lacked humility and self-awareness to know that it was to soon for him.

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Any Patriots fans care to elaborate?

Last wasn't year defense wasn't really good. We just happen to play a lot of bad QBs which inflated our numbers. This year our defense lost our depth in the LB/DL positions(because the GM didn't sign them for what even reason), our borderline pro bowler DT got blood clots so he done, lost our best run stopping LB for the season, one our starting safety missed more than half the season because of legal trouble and the other one playing with one foot. Never stood a chance.

We didn't do anything to address the holes we already knew had. Kraft was being cheap and not understanding his roster. Which is why his old ass got to go. How can you look at this roster and not see you legit got 2-4 starters on a good day. Watch Kraft is going to spend money this off season to prove he is not cheap

 

[King P]

 

[Max Power]

yup

TheColi knows better though

 

[BucciMane]

I saw someone say the firing was more about what he was saying off the field than doing on the field, and I think there’s truth to that.

I didn’t like the timing of the firing, but people often complain that owners don’t get rid of coaches that they should get rid of quick enough, and Kraft pulled the trigger here.

 

[Max Power]

 

[King Poetic]

Pep Hamilton was nowhere in the world and u bring him in just for a hi and bye

fukk the patriots

 

[Trips]

Rooney Rule:

 

[feelosofer]

This is lowkey why a lot of black coaches fail. Very few are able to earn the respect of the locker room. Why? I have no idea.

Instead of blaming owners, y'all should be questioning by players don't want to play hard all of a sudden whenever a brother is in charge.

Hmmm. This is an interesting point . The white man's ice is colder syndrome.