Jerod Mayo "coaching for his job"? Is bringing Mayo back, (to see if he's the right guy) risky for Maye's development?
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00:00Once, when I gave him facts about Dan Campbell's first year, Kyle Shanahan's first year,
00:09Belichick's five or six seasons, but even Bill's first year, Andy Reid's first year,
00:14and how they all struggled as coaches as far as wins and losses.
00:19And those are facts like where you just don't fire guys after one year.
00:25You think Gerard Mayo is going to be Andy Reid?
00:27I didn't say he was going to be Andy Reid.
00:29I don't know what Gerard Mayo is going to be.
00:30But there are lots of head coaches who have struggled in their first year,
00:36who have not made it very far in this league.
00:39Right. And I'm not saying that Mayo is not one of those guys.
00:41There are just as many examples of that.
00:43I think you can identify whether somebody has it or doesn't have it, and you can cut bait
00:50because you're worried about the development of your most important asset, and that is Drake May.
00:55But I would say this, Greg, the Patriots roster is the worst in the NFL.
01:00I get that, Curtis.
01:00So if you have...
01:01But you tell me all the time that it's the same roster that it was last year.
01:06It's similar, and I'm not saying Mayo's done a good job.
01:09The only difference is the improvement at quarterback.
01:12But he's improved this season, right?
01:14I'm saying your roster got, when you say it's the worst in the NFL,
01:19it got better at the most important position by far.
01:23Right. But the offensive line is the worst in the NFL.
01:26His receivers are the worst in the NFL.
01:28Right.
01:29The defense lost its middle linebacker for the season.
01:32Barmore was out with whatever he's had with the blood clots.
01:36You've had Keon White, who hasn't been very good.
01:39The roster in general, it would really be similar to the Red Sox firing Heimblum,
01:45from my perspective.
01:46I know it's not the coach, it's the GM.
01:47But if this roster was coached by Andy Reid,
01:52they'd win three, four more games.
01:54I would give you that.
01:55But we all thought Dan Campbell was a punchline.
01:58Right.
01:58Like when he got blown out by Bailey Zappi,
02:01and he's up there basically crying at the postgame podium.
02:06I don't know if...
02:07If I had to guess right now,
02:08I don't think Gerard Mayo is going to be a 10-year very successful head coach,
02:12if I had to put money on it.
02:13Yeah.
02:13But I also understand what Wiggy's saying,
02:16which is the perspective I didn't understand,
02:18which is that how people would view this opportunity,
02:23given how little Gerard Mayo had to work with,
02:26how green he was when he was hired,
02:28and how short the leash was.
02:29Look at your boy, even your boy Boomer,
02:32when he was like, you know,
02:34was it Jacksonville that fired Frank right?
02:38No, it's Carolina.
02:38Carolina.
02:39Excuse me.
02:40Carolina fired Frank right through what,
02:4210 or 11 games into his first year.
02:44Like, I get it.
02:45There are mistakes that Gerard Mayo has made.
02:48Has this team regressed in certain areas?
02:51Of course.
02:52You're following the greatest coach of all time.
02:55So there is going to be this area of where you regress as a team,
03:01especially when you don't have no...
03:03I would...
03:04You know what I would say to you, Greg?
03:05I would second your idea if this team made major moves in the offseason,
03:13and they had plenty of talent,
03:15and you go, Gerard just can't do it.
03:17Then I'd be like, okay, I can see what you're saying.
03:20You want to move on from a guy after one year.
03:22But the hand he was dealt,
03:24like the hand he was dealt,
03:26he was given no talent,
03:28and he always talks about it.
03:30And I was even a little bit like,
03:31maybe you got a little bit better talent.
03:33Of course he talks about it.
03:34He wants to point the finger somewhere else.
03:36But it's true though.
03:37Who wouldn't?
03:38That's a fact.
03:39So that's a fact.
03:42That is a fact that he was given a team that had very, very...
03:50Had little talent on it.
03:52Wiggy, it is virtually the same exact team that Bill had.
03:56And the guy won four games last year.
03:58Right.
03:58And on the defensive side of the football,
04:00when it comes to defending the pass or defending the rush,
04:06they have dropped considerably.
04:08Right.
04:08From like ninth to 31st.
04:10And that is supposed to be his bread and butter.
04:12Right.
04:12But you're comparing...
04:13That's not alarming to you?
04:14No, no.
04:15Because you're comparing Bill...
04:16Did you not think that one thing that would be good
04:19under a Gerard Mayo coach team would be the defense?
04:21Right.
04:21But you're comparing a Bill Belichick coach defense
04:25to a Gerard Mayo coach defense.
04:29Exactly.
04:30One's the greatest of all.
04:31It's like trying to compare Tom Brady
04:35and his later years to Matt Jones' first year.
04:39You're always going to have that drop.
04:41Or like Arkan to Greg Hill.