Self-aware Jerod Mayo preaches patience with Patriots’ rebuild originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
ORLANDO – Few people want to hear it. Even fewer really want to accept it. But the Patriots probably won’t be “good” for a while.
You don’t like that fact? Understandable. You get used to living your fan’s life a certain way. It’s not easy to come to grips with waking up in Siberia. But that’s kind of where New England is right now.
Rome wasn’t built in a day. And neither were the dynastic Patriots, even though it seemed like they were, going from 8-8 to 5-11 to three Super Bowls in four seasons from 1999 to 2004.
Rome also didn’t crumble all at once and neither did the dynastic Patriots, who sank slowly almost imperceptibly from 2019 to 2023 to where they are now: a team coming off a 4-13 season with a first-year head coach, a first-year de facto GM and no quarterback.
This ain’t Pompeii. There are signs of life. But it’s going to take a minute. And that was the backbeat to Jerod Mayo’s 30-minute sitdown with the media on Monday morning.
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Fixing. Building. Developing. Creating the right support systems. All were facets of what Mayo discussed.
But one answer that really stuck out to me related to Calvin Ridley, the Jaguars wideout who really had little interest in coming to New England despite the Patriots’ overtures.
“There were various reasons why guys didn’t sign with us,” Mayo explained. “The unknown is scary for a lot of people. And I would say even in our building right now, it’s still unknown. Like, will I be a good head coach? I don’t know, hopefully. I think I can be.
“Will Eliot (Wolf) be a good GM or whatever he is in his role? I don’t know. We’ll see what happens with that. But look, it’s gonna be a process. You (media) guys even sitting around this table, there will be times that you…
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Publish date : 2024-03-26 00:19:04
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