Jerod Mayo, like a number of first-year head coaches within the NFL, is getting a crash course within the finer factors of working a workforce. That was evident as soon as once more Thursday morning when he introduced the Patriots will begin Jacoby Brissett at quarterback.
Mayo wasn’t scheduled to talk Thursday, so credit score to him and the group for making that scheduling tweak after he knowledgeable the workforce of his determination to begin the journeyman veteran over rookie Drake Maye. Nonetheless, Mayo’s 80-second media availability did not precisely reply a lot, and it truly type of left everybody with much more questions in regards to the determination and course of basically.
Mayo’s terseness lends itself to nitpicking all the things he truly did say. He made it straightforward to take action with a curious distinction in his opening assertion.
“It is a course of, so far as deciding on who the beginning quarterback is,” Mayo instructed reporters at Gillette Stadium. “We have now determined — or I’ve determined — that Jacoby Brissett will probably be our beginning quarterback this season.”
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Given how all the things has performed out since Mayo ascended to the highest spot on the Patriots’ teaching employees, that fast change — from “we” to “I” — stood out like a sore thumb.
It raises extra questions on simply how a lot energy Mayo has over his soccer workforce, and who precisely is making the choices. It makes one wonder if the pinnacle coach even has the ultimate say on what the depth chart seems to be like at a very powerful place.
To not point out: Mayo did not even actually reply something in regards to the course of and why Brissett is QB1.
Possibly it isn’t an enormous deal. Mayo is a rookie head coach, working with a de facto rookie common supervisor in Eliot Wolf, and an govt group that (understandably) desires its workforce again after 20 years of trusting in Invoice Belichick. It might be foolish to entrust all the things to Mayo in a similar way, and collaboration guidelines the day within the fashionable American office, or so we’re led to consider.
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However Paycor Stadium, the place the Patriots open their common season on Sept. 8 isn’t any convention room. Mayo is finally chargeable for his workforce’s on-field efficiency.The choice on who needs to be below middle to begin the season is a very powerful alternative Mayo must make in his first season as head coach.
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Reporters pressed Mayo on the method Wednesday, too. Requested in regards to the collaborative course of, Mayo insisted he speaks with offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelt for enter however stated “finally, it is my determination to make.” Requested about Wolf’s position within the course of, Mayo acknowledged the chief “weighs in” however shortly said “as soon as once more, it is my determination to make. … I’d finally put it on me.”
But, at some point later, he slips up — a Freudian slip, maybe? — and says it is a “we” factor earlier than shortly correcting himself.
It is also attainable he simply misspoke Thursday. However given how all the things has performed out with the Patriots within the final yr or so, it is the form of flub that does make you marvel about who’s providing enter and who finally is making he ultimate name. Mayo solely fueled that fireplace Thursday.
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