New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft fired first-year head coach Jeod Mayo on Sunday after the team’s Week 18 victory over the Buffalo Bills. Kraft should be held responsible for the Patriots’ season failure.
Mayo has been with the Patriots since 2008; he started as a linebacker. After eight seasons as a player, he became a coach.
Jerod Mayo Was Thrown Into A Bad Position
After Kraft moved off of six-time Super Bowl-winning head coach Bill Belichick last offseason, Mayo arose from the linebacker coaching position to the next head coach without even being a coordinator, and a lot of it had to do with the great relationship he had with Kraft.
Kraft stated on Monday that letting go of Mayo was the hardest decision he ever had to make, including having Tom Brady walk out of his organization to play for Tampa Bay in March of 2020.
Mayo means a lot to Kraft and his family, and their relationship might’ve hurt Mayo for the rest of his coaching career.
Robert Kraft Is To Blame For Mayo’s Failure
During the radio shows Felger & Mazz on 98.5 at the Sports Hub in Boston, Tony Massarotti was not feeling what Kraft did to Mayo and stated, “Robert Kraft Really Hurt The Guy.”
Massarotti is 100% right here because Mayo is not at fault in this situation, and Kraft put him into a position he wasn’t ready for, and now his coaching career could take a massive hit because of it.
Nobody around the NFL will think highly of Mayo, and teams probably won’t even want to hire him as a coordinator.
Mayo will have to coach a position group somewhere like he did for the Patriots all those seasons. Then, maybe a few years later, he could return to the ranks as a coordinator and head coach.
The New England Patriots will need a lot of work this offseason, but one good thing they have going for them is the excellent play of rookie quarterback Drake Maye.
