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00:03 For me, I'll do the Mayo thing first, cuz I actually think it's pretty quick.
00:06 They were always giving the job to him.
00:08 I have no idea how successful it will be.
00:10 I don't really know what anybody can grade this decision on.
00:14 Gerard Mayo is right a defensive guy who was coaching under Bill,
00:18 who's the best defensive mind in the NFL for a very, very, very long time.
00:23 Now we're one of, I guess I could say at this point in time.
00:27 A lot of people have left the Bill Belichick tree and been unsuccessful here.
00:30 I believe in my heart of hearts that if they had not agreed to make Mayo
00:33 the successor, they would have hired Mike Vrabel.
00:35 They were stuck with the plan that they had laid out here.
00:38 The grade higher here, I don't wanna say whatever, but
00:42 this is what their plan was.
00:44 I can't knock it, but I'm hardly in love with this decision.
00:47 >> Give it a C.
00:48 I mean, I think it's not that great of a higher.
00:50 And the reason why I say that is, yes, Bill Belichick, modern day,
00:54 one of the best head coaches in regards to the NFL, but he has slipped and
00:58 regressed, even from a defensive perspective.
01:01 I don't look at New England's defense the past two or three seasons, and
01:04 I know statistically very good, but this wasn't a dominant defense.
01:08 This wasn't a game changer.
01:10 They weren't as opportunistic where they could take games over when their offense
01:14 didn't bring their A game, and that's the biggest problem that I have with Gerard
01:18 Mayo right now.
01:19 If you're gonna clean house or move on from an older head coach,
01:23 you wanna move on completely, you want new blood.
01:25 The fact that Mike Vrabel was available, a former player,
01:29 wasn't from that type of tree, but understands the culture in terms of
01:33 winning there, I would have went or potentially said Mike Vrabel would have
01:37 been a better fit, look this coaching staff too, in terms of what they did with
01:42 young talent, I don't think they were world beaters offensively or defensively.
01:46 And if we're comparing the New England Patriots to what we saw in terms of
01:51 Antonio Pierce in Las Vegas, I think it's head and shoulders.
01:54 Las Vegas did a better, much better job coaching up the young players,
01:58 coming to play each and every week, even though the Patriots won one or
02:03 two games down the stretch.
02:05 It's just an old mindset for me, so I don't agree with Gerard Mayo as a great hire.
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