{"id":7001,"date":"2024-12-18T14:55:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T14:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=7001"},"modified":"2024-12-18T14:55:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T14:55:05","slug":"news-patriots-players-continue-defending-embattled-coach-jerod-mayo-amid-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=7001","title":{"rendered":"NEWS: Patriots players continue defending embattled coach Jerod Mayo amid struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<article role=\"main\">\n<header>\n<h2>Former Patriots QB Brian Hoyer points to the players&#8217; support as a sign the coach isn&#8217;t the team&#8217;s major problem.<\/h2>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bdc2020.o0bc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/65XKAX4VTHMDAOXQ2PGAEEMSTI-676242de346dc-768x432.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bdc2020.o0bc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/65XKAX4VTHMDAOXQ2PGAEEMSTI-676242de346dc-768x432.jpg?width=200 200w, https:\/\/bdc2020.o0bc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/65XKAX4VTHMDAOXQ2PGAEEMSTI-676242de346dc-768x432.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/bdc2020.o0bc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/65XKAX4VTHMDAOXQ2PGAEEMSTI-676242de346dc-768x432.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/bdc2020.o0bc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/65XKAX4VTHMDAOXQ2PGAEEMSTI-676242de346dc-768x432.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/bdc2020.o0bc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/65XKAX4VTHMDAOXQ2PGAEEMSTI-676242de346dc-768x432.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/bdc2020.o0bc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/65XKAX4VTHMDAOXQ2PGAEEMSTI-676242de346dc-768x432.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/bdc2020.o0bc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/65XKAX4VTHMDAOXQ2PGAEEMSTI-676242de346dc-768x432.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/bdc2020.o0bc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/65XKAX4VTHMDAOXQ2PGAEEMSTI-676242de346dc-768x432.jpg?width=900 900w\" alt=\"Patriots players continue defending embattled coach Jerod Mayo amid struggles\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" \/><figcaption>New England Patriots head coach Jerod Mayo talks during a press conference after the 30-17 loss to the Arizona Cardinals at State Farm Stadium.<em> Danielle Parhizkaran\/Globe Staff<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/header>\n<p>The Patriots\u2019 uninspired loss to the Arizona Cardinals \u2014 and his bosses\u2019 apparent reaction to it in real-time \u2014 only heated up the speculation about Jerod Mayo\u2019s status with the team \u200aafter the 2024 season.<\/p>\n<p>Despite reports from the NFL\u2019s top insiders that Mayo is largely considered safe heading into 2025, the team\u2019s 3-11 record, Mayo\u2019s continued on-camera blunders after games, and the potential for a brutal end to the year raise the possibility of Patriots ownership deciding to end the Mayo experiment after a year.<\/p>\n<p>But former Patriots quarterback Brian Hoyer keeps bringing up an important reason for believing Mayo deserves to stick around for another season: the continued support, at least vocally, of his players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Davon] Godchaux, [Jabrill] Peppers, [Mike] Onwenu, guys who are veteran leaders on the team [are] going out there and defending Jerod and basically saying like, \u2018Look, he can\u2019t go out there and play for us. We as players need to do a better job.\u2019 And the media wants to crucify him,\u201d Hoyer said on the latest episode of \u201cThe Quick Snap\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Brian Hoyer addresses Jerod Mayo and the Patriots problems \ud83d\ude33 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nYht5a6UW5\">pic.twitter.com\/nYht5a6UW5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Quick Snap (@quicksnappod) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/quicksnappod\/status\/1869143421254062437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe ex-QB did acknowledge the Patriots\u2019 poor performance and lack of energy against the Cardinals was concerning, especially coming out of a bye week. But he also noted players have frequently held the line of needing to execute better, not needing better coaching, after losing games this season.<\/p>\n<p>This is in direct contrast, Hoyer noted, to the growing internal discord within the Chicago Bears in the final weeks of Matt Eberflus\u2019 tenure, which culminated in a disastrous Thanksgiving Day loss that finally earned him his pink slip.<\/p>\n<p>Also, though Hoyer <em>didn\u2019t<\/em> mention it, he\u2019s seen situations go south on teams he was part of as well, including the 2023 Las Vegas Raiders led by former Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels.<\/p>\n<p>That includes witnessing the beginning of the end for Bill Belichick in New England after a baffling 2022 season and an abysmal 2023 that saw the all-time great coach fired at last.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason Jerod\u2019s the head coach right now is because things didn\u2019t work out at the end of Bill [Belichick] coaching here. That\u2019s just reality. You call it however you want. Like I see people saying, \u2018Apologize to Bill.\u2019 Well, that\u2019s why that\u2019s where this organization is that is because of where he led it to be, and Jerod is trying to get things going,\u201d Hoyer said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s his first time being a head coach. The roster needs to be turned over. That\u2019s clear, and I get it. The media wants to pin a scapegoat. But when the players are coming out and saying, \u2018We need to do a better job,\u2019 you need to listen to that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that\u2019s what you might expect people who came up under Bill Belichick to do: don\u2019t criticize coaches or players publicly. Keep things in-house. Plus, Hoyer and Andrews have played alongside Mayo, who had a well-respected career with the Patriots and has mentored several defensive players as a coach.<\/p>\n<p>However, that\u2019s one thing about the Patriots that still hasn\u2019t reached the \u201ccatastrophically bad\u201d threshold needed to oust Mayo: he hasn\u2019t lost the support of the locker room yet even with their struggles on the field or Mayo\u2019s inability to control his emotions post-game.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, as Hoyer put it, the Patriots are clearly \u201cbetween a rock and a hard place\u201d when it comes to the roster, having very little top-end talent and not enough depth to bench people who might otherwise have sat in the team\u2019s better days.<\/p>\n<p>If the Pats at least keep things respectable the last few games and show renewed effort behind Mayo, he\u2019ll most likely be the head coach regardless of the team\u2019s outcomes in the last three games. Then again, crazier things have happened, and a turn for the worst in the team\u2019s mentality could overrule the Krafts\u2019 plans to give the rookie coach time to improve.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Patriots quarterback Brian Hoyer sees the continued support of Pats players for Jerod Mayo as a sign he should stick around for 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7001","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>NEWS: Patriots players continue defending embattled coach Jerod Mayo amid struggles - 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