Jason McIntyre: “Jerod Mayo is turning into a train wreck at the microphone. Folks, he’s had the worst week of any head coach in the NFL. I'm going to go through the last four days of Jerod Mayo, and this is honestly some clownish stuff. It’s amateur hour, it makes you long for Bill Belichick getting on the microphone saying ‘we’re onto Cincinnati’ and giving nothing. That was funny, but when Jerod Mayo talks it’s like ‘what are you even talking about, dude?’...
On Sunday he said Drake Maye was the ‘second-best quarterback on the roster.’ Then he says Monday that ‘Drake Maye has outplayed Jacoby Brissett.’ What are we doing here? Then Mayo really steps in it and is like ‘Well, if you go back to the spring...’ Drake Maye was drafted in the spring, you expect him to instantly be better than the journeyman backup quarterback you got?? Mayo is not making sense. The rookie has outplayed the veteran, but the rookie is still the ‘second-best quarterback on the roster’? Why should spring matter? What have you done for me lately? That’s what matters, and Drake Maye has been the guy.
Then it gets a little worse. Mayo essentially announces to the media ‘I know who our starter is going to be, I’m just not telling you yet!’ It’s like why are you announcing that you have a secret? Belichick must be face-palming all over the place like ‘THEY GOT THIS GUY FOLLOWING ME??’
I’m trying to find a historical perspective of following a legendary coach and the best one I can think of is Joe Gibbs. He was a legend in Washington -- at the time they were the Redskins -- and he was stacking Super Bowls. Then Gibbs leaves it to one of his lieutenants Richie Petitbon. He took over, he went 4-12, and they dusted him. This is shaping up as a one-and-done for Jerod Mayo.
Great Patriots player, loyal lieutenant for a few years with Belichick, inherits the job, Kraft is giving his full support, and then... Mayo has undeniably been a train wreck. NFL teams are getting increasingly okay with moving off head coaches after a year. We saw Urban Meyer gone in Jacksonville. We’ve seen the Carolina Panthers run through coaches pretty damn quickly. Teams are not messing around.
I think Jerod Mayo is one-and-done. They have the lowest Win Total in the league per Vegas, and if the team goes 4-12 and this team doesn’t take off, I think it’s over for Jerod Mayo in New England.’"
Watch Jason McIntyre, guest-hosting for Colin Cowherd on The Herd, explain why he thinks Patriots rookie head coach Jerod Mayo will be canned in New England after just one season, saying Mayo’s ‘train wreck’ media appearances are foreshadowing a coaching catastrophe on the horizon.
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