{"id":25509,"date":"2025-06-12T01:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T01:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=25509"},"modified":"2025-06-12T01:15:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T01:15:17","slug":"patriots-7-8-million-edge-rusher-drops-merciless-9-word-message-on-jerod-mayo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=25509","title":{"rendered":"Patriots $7.8 Million Edge Rusher Drops Merciless 9-Word Message on Jerod Mayo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Patriots-Jerod-Mayo.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Patriots-Jerod-Mayo.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Patriots-Jerod-Mayo.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Patriots-Jerod-Mayo.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Patriots $7.8 Million Edge Rusher Drops Merciless 9-Word Message on Jerod Mayo\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em>Getty Former Patriots head coach Jerod Mayo<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Jerod Mayo era for the New England Patriots was short and not very sweet. Mayo was hired at the outset of 2024, just three days after Patriots owner Robert Kraft fired the team\u2019s legendary coach of 24 years, Bill Belichick. But after a 4-13 season, Mayo was handed his walking papers, too.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with Mayo and most of his coaching staff long gone, one leading defensive player on the Patriots offered his brutally honest take, summed up in nine words, on the difference between playing under Mayo, and new head coach Mike Vrabel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was training myself, I\u2019m not going to lie,\u201d said edge rusher Keion White on Tuesday, when asked about the differences from last season that he sees after OTA and mandatory minicamp practices with Vrabel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, I feel like I have a coach,\u201d the 26-year-old White, entering the third year of his four-year, $7.79 million rookie contract, added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Keion White on a big difference this season: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, I feel like I have a coach\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aKK0iD5Rnl\">pic.twitter.com\/aKK0iD5Rnl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Savage (@SavageSports_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SavageSports_\/status\/1932761576215621802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Mayo Ties Rod Rust For Shortest Patriots Tenure<\/h2>\n<p>The 39-year-old Mayo, a former Patriots linebacker for his entire eight-year playing career from 2008 to 2015 \u2014 with a first team All-Pro honor in 2010 \u2014 had the shortest tenure of any head coach in Patriots history, dating back to the club\u2019s founding as an original American Football League franchise in 1960.<\/p>\n<p>The only other coach to last no longer than one season in New England was Rod Rust, who coached the Patriots to a 1-15 record \u2014 worst ever for the Patriots \u2014 in 1990 before being fired after that single, disastrous campaign.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/T2lPr.vh.uH0_IQ.W7PnKg--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MDtoPTQyNztjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/athlon_sports_articles_610\/f0bb652ff579e9af57b3ffe009a9a1a9\" alt=\"Patriots' Keion White Rips Into Previous Coaching Staff Under Jerod Mayo -  Yahoo Sports\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s dismal record in 2024, it can be credibly argued, was not entirely Mayo\u2019s fault. The Patriots simply did not have the talent to compete at even an average level against most NFL teams. But there were other issues that prompted Kraft to give Mayo the heave-ho so soon after hiring him to replace the only coach in NFL history to win six Super Bowls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPatriots players publicly stated their support for Jerod Mayo, but team sources have described a poor culture with a lack of leadership that can make demanding and decisive decisions,\u201d wrote Doug Kyed of the <em>Boston Herald<\/em> shortly after Mayo was fired.<\/p>\n<p>But quality of coaching also played a role in the Patriots\u2019 failed season, and in why Mayo was fired, according to <em>ESPN.com<\/em> Patriots reporter Mike Reiss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOpponents had little fear of a receiving corps with Kayshon Boutte, Kendrick Bourne and DeMario Douglas atop the depth chart,\u201d Reiss wrote, after Mayo\u2019s ouster. \u201cPart of that is tied to coaching and a lack of development, as the Patriots had first-year position coaches at offensive line and receiver and didn\u2019t see their rookies progress to become the frontline contributors they hoped they would be.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>White Also Spoke Out Last Season<\/h2>\n<p>One of the most glaring indications that all was not right inside the Patriots culture under Mayo also came from White, who spoke out after the Patriots had played their 14th game, with 11 losses to that point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to try to get through these next two games, and then figure it out after that, and see where the cards may lie for my future,\u201d White told veteran beat writer Karen Guregian at the time. \u201cIt is what it is. You just figure out where you go \u2026 Something\u2019s gotta change. That\u2019s the way I feel at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Something did change. Mayo was shown the door and Vrabel was welcomed in \u2014 and White, at least at this early stage, seems much happier.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A third-year defensive end for the New England Patriots dropped some real talk on the team&#8217;s coaching staff from last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-england-patriots"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Patriots $7.8 Million Edge Rusher Drops Merciless 9-Word Message on Jerod Mayo - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=25509\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Patriots $7.8 Million Edge Rusher Drops Merciless 9-Word Message on Jerod Mayo - 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