Jerod Mayo didn’t reply straight Monday morning when requested on WEEI if Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft has informed him he’ll be again subsequent season as head coach.
Mayo was named head coach in January after the Patriots elected towards a full search course of. Throughout a renegotiation of Mayo’s contract final January, the Patriots included a clause that established a succession plan if and when the franchise parted methods with Invoice Belichick. That clause allowed Mayo to succeed Belichick with out the Patriots conducting a full head-coaching search below regular league guidelines.
The Patriots are 3-10 below Mayo to date this season.
“My major focus has simply been actually getting this staff able to play this week,” Mayo stated.
”I’m not going to get into all of that stuff,” Mayo continued after a follow-up. “Look, right here I am going once more dancing a bit of bit however my focus is on the fellows on this room, the coaches on this workers and profitable this sport that we have now developing.”
Mayo does have full perception that he’ll be a very good head coach, regardless of his staff’s struggles this season.
The 2024 Patriots rank thirty first in complete offense and nineteenth in complete protection this season. They’re thirty first in scoring offense and twentieth in factors allowed.
Taking a look at it extra analytically, the Patriots are at the moment twenty sixth in EPA (anticipated factors added) per play and twenty eighth in EPA per play allowed.
“100%. I do know I’ll achieve success,” Mayo stated Monday. “100%. And look, you’re going to undergo these making an attempt occasions. Like, that’s what it’s. And the mark of a real chief is with the ability to navigate this and understanding that you simply’re going the proper method. And I actually imagine that we’re going the proper method. In brief time period, it could be disappointing, however in the long run, we’re doing it the proper method.”
Mayo inherited a staff that went 4-13 final season below Invoice Belichick, and new govt vp of participant personnel Eliot Wolf didn’t take large steps to enhance the roster, principally re-signing the Patriots’ personal free brokers.
The Patriots’ draft class, outdoors of rookie beginning quarterback Drake Maye (who has been fantastic) has struggled to supply.
This will likely be a large offseason for the Patriots since they at the moment rank first in complete accessible cap area with $132.5 million, per OverTheCap.com. They’re additionally at the moment slated to have the No. 3 total choose within the 2024 NFL Draft, although that might change in the event that they win any of their remaining 4 video games towards the Cardinals, Payments, Chargers and Payments (once more). The two-11 Raiders and Giants are the one groups with extra losses. The Panthers, Jaguars, Titans, Jets and Browns are additionally knotted at 3-10.
Mayo was requested if he believes the Patriots’ roster will look completely different subsequent season.
“We’ll 100% be a greater soccer staff subsequent yr,” Mayo answered.
Any second-year leap the Patriots obtain out of Maye will assist. There’s additionally the chance that Maye’s potential might entice veteran gamers to hitch the Patriots in 2025 and past.
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