Jerod Mayo joins live! What does Mayo think of the reports that the Patriots were "asking around" on developing Maye? Thoughts on Mayo's comments?
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00:00Good morning, Coach.
00:01Morning. How are you?
00:02Good. Hung in there yesterday.
00:04Chance to win that game at the end.
00:06Yeah. You know, I would say overall, I thought the guys went out there
00:09and played the way that we wanted to play.
00:12The execution started to waver a little bit in critical situations.
00:17But when you look at the stat sheet and, you know, to, you know,
00:20really be 2-1 as far as time of possession, you know,
00:23they went out there and tried to do the right thing.
00:25And unfortunately, we didn't walk away with the win.
00:27Gerard, I would imagine the one thing that has to be very difficult
00:31as a head coach is always the second question.
00:34And maybe the next day you're able to look and say,
00:36all right, we would have did things differently.
00:38My question is not about the field goal.
00:41The penalty at the end on the punt,
00:45when you guys elected to add the five yards on
00:48and got the ball at the 10-yard line,
00:50why wouldn't you decline and have them re-punt?
00:53Maybe kicks it in the end zone, you get better field position.
00:55Can you take me a little bit through your mindset?
00:57No, it's a great question.
00:58I would say just like you said, maybe it goes in the end zone.
01:02To me, to give a punter another opportunity to back you up,
01:06to be inside of the 10 is a huge problem.
01:09And so decided to take the yards.
01:12Why not kick the field goal?
01:14Which one?
01:15Early in that game, the 55-yarder or whatever it was.
01:18I mean, look, there are multiple reasons.
01:21As we go through the game, I'm sure we'll talk about
01:23some of the other decisions that I made during the game.
01:27It's easy to say, you know, why didn't you do this?
01:29Why didn't you do that?
01:30But I would say ultimately, like I have to make those decisions.
01:33And look, when I was a player,
01:35there were oftentimes decisions made where I was disappointed.
01:38When I was a coach, a position coach,
01:40there were oftentimes that I wish the decision went the other way.
01:43And as a head coach, you actually have to make those decisions
01:45and live with the repercussions,
01:47like sitting up here with you guys asking me all these questions.
01:51Drake's decision-making was pretty good in this one,
01:53but that interception at the end,
01:54he said he and Pop Douglas were on different pages.
01:57Is that just Drake as a rookie learning from mistakes
02:01or do you put that on Pop as well?
02:03No, you know, look, you know,
02:06one thing about Drake, he always takes responsibility
02:08and I appreciate that about him.
02:10And, you know, the same thing, you know,
02:11we're both going through this together.
02:13When I say we, I'm talking about Drake and myself.
02:15I'm a rookie head coach.
02:16He's a rookie player.
02:17And we're going to learn through these experiences.
02:18And they definitely went on the same page.
02:20Jaron, I would just ask about the,
02:22not the field goal specifically,
02:23but with this team where you are,
02:25you're three and seven entering that game.
02:27What's there to lose from being a little bit more aggressive?
02:30Yeah, we're always trying to win the football game
02:31and I'm always going to make decisions
02:33that I believe will help us win those games.
02:35But doesn't it show more of a belief either in the kicker
02:38or the fourth and what was it, the two-yard line,
02:40you got the field goal at the fourth quarter.
02:42Like, is that a situation maybe you get to see what May does
02:44with this offense, show confidence in him to get a touchdown?
02:47I have nothing but confidence in our coaches.
02:49I have nothing but confidence in the players
02:51that are out there on the field.
02:52And, you know, again, tactically,
02:54it goes back to like I'm doing what I believe
02:57is best for the football team.
02:58Speaking of confidence, Kendrick Bourne sat last week,
03:01looked like he was very motivated out there yesterday.
03:04Is that kind of what you wanted to try to accomplish there?
03:06Yeah, 100%.
03:07You know, the game prior didn't play at all.
03:10And to go out there yesterday,
03:11it shows what he's made of, the mental toughness,
03:14the energy, the going out there and making plays.
03:16And it's good to see.
03:18Gerard, one of the things we kind of talked about
03:20is especially defensively, it's kind of been that up and down,
03:24you know, the inconsistencies.
03:26I have a great week last week.
03:28You get after the quarterback, you do some things.
03:31This week, there's a little some struggles there.
03:33What do you think maybe could be leading
03:36to some of the inconsistency, especially defensively?
03:40Because I think we all had high expectations
03:43for the defense headed into the season.
03:45Yeah, I'm not going to get into, you know,
03:47the players we had at week one compared to here.
03:50You know, we always have that next man up mentality.
03:52And look, my expectation of our defense
03:55is to always go out there and perform at a high level,
03:57which we have over, you know,
03:59I would say we have at times in the season.
04:01And it goes back to consistency, and we try to be better.
04:04Looking back at it, any of those,
04:06specifically on defense, any of those calls,
04:09the zero blitz or whatever,
04:10is that too aggressive when it comes to this team?
04:13Maybe, you know, but at the same time, you know,
04:16if it was a sack, everyone would have been okay.
04:19And that's the game.
04:20But seriously, like, that's the game that we play.
04:22And, you know, it's 100% on me.
04:24Jonathan Jones taking accountability
04:26after he took to Twitter to say,
04:28I owe the New England Patriots better than today.
04:31Keep grinding.
04:33Is that something you like to see out of him
04:35or what was off for him yesterday?
04:37Well, Jon Jones is one of our best leaders in that locker room.
04:40I know he's not a captain, but he is in my eyes.
04:42And, you know, that's what it's about.
04:44You know, once you get the team to the point
04:46where they understand where they've messed up on the field,
04:49you're at a good place.
04:50The same thing, you know, when I started coaching in 2019,
04:53you know, we had a great room of backers,
04:55smart guys that I actually played with.
04:57And, you know, you have guys that know when they messed up.
05:00And the other side of that is when you have players out there
05:02that don't know what they've messed up,
05:04and that's more difficult.
05:05And I look at that from a team-wide perspective too.
05:07So is that a situation like you, you know,
05:10and again, we're watching the game, we're not there,
05:12your perspective may be different,
05:13but you got that poke penalty,
05:15kills you on that drive at the end of the game,
05:17and then he's coming off the field kind of looking like
05:20he's not necessarily frustrated with himself.
05:23Well, I mean, look, that's, look, he's frustrated,
05:25and that's part of the maturation process too
05:28for a guy like Polk.
05:29That's the difference between, let's say,
05:31a younger guy and a veteran player in this league.
05:33Like the younger guys are still trying to understand
05:35holistically what needs to be done,
05:37especially in critical situations.
05:40Do you want him to like throw his helmet down?
05:43I'm asking, like, do you want him to throw his helmet
05:45and show that type of frustration?
05:46I feel like he's been, and you actually alluded to this
05:49pretty early on in the season with us
05:51where some of these guys talk a lot
05:55and haven't necessarily let their play talk for them.
06:00I would say from a team-wide perspective,
06:02it's about accountability, it's about action,
06:05it's not about talk, and I've always stood on that.
06:07I mean, I just would say that that receiver position
06:09as a whole in the organization shouldn't be talking at all.
06:12I mean, it's been awful.
06:14I mean, by and large, I mean, the amount of times
06:16that Drake May has thrown passes right on the money,
06:19hitting the hands of a receiver,
06:21and the receiver doesn't come down with it.
06:22If I'm him and I see players getting mad
06:24at anything but themselves, I'd be frustrated.
06:26That's right. No, I agree.
06:28I mean, what that looks like, it's up to the individual.
06:31You know, some players, they get so emotional,
06:33they throw things.
06:34Other players go into a shell.
06:35Other players respond the right way onto the next play.
06:38So that's the way he handled it.
06:41But again, on that play, I mean, the frustrating thing
06:44about that false start play, in my mind,
06:47like 100%, it's going to be a touchdown.
06:49And, you know, we have to learn from that,
06:51not only Polk but myself as well, all of us.
06:55We have to learn from those mistakes.
06:57Right.
06:58And that's what the NFL is.
06:59The NFL, like, it's not like, you know,
07:03you're playing UT Chattanooga.
07:05Like, you're not playing those types of teams.
07:07But it comes down to a handful of plays.
07:09And I tell the guys all the time, like,
07:10I don't have a crystal ball to be able to sit here
07:12and tell you what play it's going to be.
07:14So that's why you have to go out there
07:16and play with tremendous effort and execution
07:18on a down-after-down basis.
07:20The thing I'll give you credit for is somebody
07:22who sits here and watches and knowing,
07:23because I've been in that locker room before,
07:25I don't think you've ever been there
07:26where you've been on a team that didn't have the,
07:29you had a losing record.
07:31And guys can tend to give up, not play hard.
07:34But the one thing I've noticed is even though
07:36they're struggling or whatever and not making plays,
07:39it's still, guys are playing hard.
07:41They're going balls to the wall.
07:43Do you feel like that's something
07:45from turning the tape on that you've noticed
07:48is that these guys are still giving it their all?
07:50Yeah, 100%.
07:51And I'm very appreciative of it.
07:53It's easy to pack it up and think about next year.
07:57These guys are present.
07:58And I tell them all the time, look, let's stay present.
08:01You look back like, oh, well, back in the day,
08:03that leads to depression.
08:05You look forward too far, and that leads to anxiety.
08:07And these guys have been present.
08:08They've been where their feet are.
08:10And that's the expectation from me and on the players.
08:13I would say from the captains, that's their expectation.
08:15Giving it their all, though, you watched that game yesterday
08:18and there were a lot of missed tackles.
08:19And as a defensive guy, is that like,
08:21you got to go back to fundamentals?
08:22Because as a fan watching the game,
08:25you wonder if it's an effort thing.
08:28Well, I mean, that speaks differently than what he just said.
08:30He sees the effort.
08:31You don't see the effort.
08:32I would say the fundamentals of tackling, it is a part effort.
08:36It's also a part technique.
08:37And so it was disappointing as a defensive coach.
08:41We've talked about this throughout the year.
08:43And there's been plenty of coaches that talked about it.
08:46Because of, obviously, the new rules in the NFL,
08:49it's difficult to work on tackling.
08:53And so how do you try to work on the technique element of it
08:58when you can't always be in full power?
09:00Like, I've never tackled anybody.
09:01So I'm asking, as somebody who came from a different world,
09:05but we tackled all the time,
09:06how do you try to teach the technique,
09:09knowing that it's a lot difficult when it's just,
09:13you know, soft shells and helmets?
09:14Yeah, we start in the spring,
09:16you know, talking about entry angles and things like that.
09:18And then, you know, obviously during training camp,
09:20we have multiple opportunities to work on tackling.
09:22At this point in the season,
09:25you would hope to have your sword sharpened enough
09:28in the fundamental area that those plays don't show up.
09:31But like you said, it did show up yesterday.
09:34We've got to do a better job.
09:35Add Sean McVay to the list of those who are gushing about Drake May
09:40and where he is at now, development-wise.
09:44You might be able to help me stop Wiggy
09:46because he's a broken record on this.
09:50How much of his development, where he is now,
09:54do you put on making the right decision
09:57to sit him for the first five weeks?
10:00I mean, that's for you guys to sit here and debate about.
10:04You could see the other quarterbacks in the league,
10:07the first round guys,
10:08and I'm sure you guys could debate about those as well.
10:11There was a point in the season where everyone was like,
10:13oh, all these teams made the right decision.
10:15And now they're looking back at it like,
10:16oh, maybe we should have sat him.
10:18And then vice versa.
10:20Our record right now, obviously, is not where we want to be.
10:23But the other side is, well, we should have started in the first game.
10:26So that's for you guys to sit here and talk about, not me.
10:31I feel good about – I will say this.
10:32I feel good about the trajectory that he's going at.
10:36I would also say, as you guys continue to –
10:38or I shouldn't say you guys.
10:40As people continue to be excited,
10:41which it is exciting to have a quarterback go out there and play like that,
10:45we need to continue to manage our expectations
10:46and realize that he is a rookie quarterback.
10:48And hopefully he continues on this trajectory
10:51because that will help us become a good football team.
10:54There were some reports this week that the organization was calling around,
10:58asking for the best way to develop a young quarterback.
11:03Yet we sit here and say he's developing at a good trajectory.
11:07Could we all agree on that?
11:08Yeah.
11:09All right.
11:10So like all those reports are false.
11:11They're all false.
11:12They're all false.
11:13None of those reports are true.
11:14None of those reports are true.
11:15Okay.
11:16But to think about it, once again,
11:18like it's almost like talking on both sides of our mouths.
11:21Like we're sitting here saying like he's developing great
11:23and then they sit here and the story come out
11:25that people are asking around how to develop a quarterback.
11:27It's like, I mean, things like that.
11:29And look, I'll take bullets and all that.
11:32I shouldn't say bullets.
11:33I'll take all the shots and all that stuff in regards to our record,
11:36our team, our development.
11:38That's fine.
11:39That's part of being a head coach.
11:40The one thing that being a head coach,
11:42I need to make sure I do a good job protecting our coordinators,
11:45our coaches, and also the players on the field.
11:47And so when you hear one person, oh, you know, Drake's not developing,
11:51another person, oh, well, Drake's at a great place.
11:53Like, who do you think is responsible for that?
11:55It's Alex Van Pelt.
11:56He's responsible for that.
11:57And so why even call around to ask how to develop a quarterback?
12:01Yet everyone in the New England area,
12:03you just said Sean McVay included on the West Coast,
12:05is like, hey, this guy's developing at a good rate
12:07and he's going to be a good football player in this league.
12:10That to me is the frustrating piece of it.
12:14John Gruden said it.
12:15When you heard that report.
12:16What did John Gruden say?
12:17Say he's going to be a great quarterback.
12:19He's looking like he's headed in the right direction.
12:21Yet calls go out.
12:22Yeah.
12:23Well, calls don't go out.
12:24People say that calls went out because you're saying that they did.
12:27It's false.
12:28Okay, it's false.
12:29Okay.
12:30So my question is, so when Albert.
12:31Who made the calls?
12:32Albert Breer reported it.
12:34And I love Albert Breer.
12:36He said it was the Crafts.
12:38Right.
12:39So my question to you, Gerard, is, so Albert Breer reports that.
12:42Do you talk to Robert and Jonathan and say, is this true?
12:44We have open lines of communication.
12:47We have open lines of communication.
12:48This is not true.
12:49And so do you take it as a shot at you that they're reporting that?
12:54I mean, look, that's up to you to decide.
12:56I don't look at it as a shot towards me.
12:58Look, I have a good relationship with ownership.
13:00I have a good relationship with our coaches.
13:02Unnamed sources and all that stuff.
13:04I mean, it is what it is.
13:05Onto Miami and traveling down there.
13:08Traditionally a tough place for this team to play.
13:10Yeah.
13:11Yeah.
13:12It is a tough place.
13:13And, you know, going back to the expectation is that we're going to go
13:15out there and play hard.
13:17It's not like playing in Miami in the summertime.
13:19Yeah.
13:20It'll be welcoming weather.
13:22Yeah.
13:23Gerard, how, you know, how do you manage that?
13:27Like knowing that there's so many things that come out in a set.
13:33And like, how do you manage that as a coach,
13:36as somebody, a leader of this team,
13:38and getting players to understand that a lot of that nonsense.
13:42I didn't buy it, you know,
13:44because I just think it's a bad look when you're trying to.
13:47No, I'm dead ass.
13:48He did.
13:49When you're trying to have a head coach who's doing a job,
13:52but yet you're calling around like I didn't buy it.
13:54But how do you try to manage like all the whispers and stuff,
13:58like knowing that potentially guys could be hearing it and trying to make
14:02sure that they're not buying into it.
14:04To me, it's leadership.
14:05One-on-one ignoring the noise.
14:07Like we're in the clouds right now.
14:09We're trying to build something special and everyone wants the curtains to
14:12be put up before the foundation is laid.
14:14And my,
14:15my job is to sit here and take these comments and critical comments,
14:18which I'm fine with,
14:19but also to build a foundation for not only today,
14:22but for the future.
14:23All right, coach.
14:24Oh, I was just going to say back to the Miami game,
14:26because you guys have already played them once.
14:28How much can you take from that first matchup with them?
14:30Obviously it's going to look a lot different with Tua.
14:32Yeah, it's going to look a lot different.
14:33I would say schematically it's, it's pretty similar.
14:36And so you just got to go out there and play a good football game.