Mayo fired

It should be noted that early this afternoon, well before Mayo was fired, Vrabel's profile picture on "X" was changed to one from the past of him as a Patriot's player.

 

None of this makes any sense, from the time they fired BB until now. The hell are they doing?

 

You might be right on Vrabel.

Mayo threw the Offensive Coordinator under the bus after a loss to the media. After that incident, there was a feeling that no assistant coaches around the league would want to work with Mayo being inexperienced and breaking the cardinal rule of throwing an assistant coach under the bus in the media.

Prior to that, he called the players soft after a loss to the media.

The plan was for him to succeed Belicheck, but Bill being fired early screwed things up. Mayo needed more time to be groomed in my opinion.

I know this will never happen, but why not hire Rex Ryan?

 

Wasn’t Vrabel available when they hired Mayo?

 

Yeah but he wasn't interviewing with the Jets.

 

Kind of. They had put language in Mayo's contract in 2023 after he'd interviewed for the HC position with a few other teams that made him the coach in waiting whenever Belichick left the franchise.

 

I need to ask this to a patriot fan because I cannot wrap my head around it. When they hired Mayo last year it never made sense to me. I know he was the "coach in waiting" but it ended so poorly with Belichick and they wanted to move on, so it made no sense to me to basically continue on down the Belichick path with Mayo, except this time they're doing it with someone drastically inferior to Belichick. I thought they'd want to go in a completely new and refreshing direction. They hired Mayo anyway, who most agreed was still a year or two early, and gave him the worst roster in the nfl and a rookie QB. Obviously no one expected the patriots to win many games this year and I believe they actually won the exact amount Vegas predicted. Despite knowing when they hired him that Mayo was young and needed some time on task to learn, they fired him after 1 year. I dont get any of this. Firing Mayo to me means they are done with this Belichick way and want to move on completely from it, otherwise they'd stick with Mayo and let him learn and grow. So, I would be further confused if they CONTINUED down the Belichick path by hiring Vrabel. Please help me make sense of this lol.

 

Sorry for the late reply, been dealing with my Mom's health.

I am not the Krafts but I will try to explain their thinking. Like many owners, they like familiarity. I believe what got Belichick fired was his GM decisions, not his coaching. Letting Brady go was his 1st big mistake and his selection of Matt Patricia as OC was his 2nd. In the meantime his draft selections sucked. They could have just removed him from the GM role, but there was no way a new GM would ever have complete control with Bill around. Thus Bill had to go. I never liked the selection of Mayo as a future coach. He shared duties as DC with Belichick's son and never proved himself in my opinion. I think what got him fired was the defense not playing as well as before. The offense did improve, but the defense got worse. Not a good sign for Mayo here.

But in all honesty to Belichick, he lost a lot of his brain trust over the years like Ernie Adams and Dante Scarnecchia for example.