Y’all wanted to throw Mayo into the garbage before he coached one game.
Yep. Vrabel had no more experience than Mayo did when he took over Tennessee and people were clamoring for him to be named head coach. Mayo can’t be Belichick because no one can be Belichick, and his assistants that got HC jobs and tried to be Belichick failed miserably in doing so. None of us know whether he can be successful until he is given a real chance. He’s going to make mistakes, but so does every coach. And a feel good win his first time out doesn’t guarantee success any more than a loss would have guaranteed failure, although loud mouthed know nothing assholes like Felger would have been crowing about how right they were had Burrow led the Bengals to the win on the last drive.
Bottom line, although many will ignore it out of their never ending need to be aggrieved, Mayo deserves 3 years to show that he can either succeed or fail as their head coach. My position on this year remains the same, it’s not so much about their wins and losses as it is about changing the culture to one where they are clearly playing their asses off every game. Playing like it matters to them, which has been lacking since Brady left. And as far as that test goes yesterday was a total win. It wasn’t pretty, and it won’t be for a while to come, but they ran right at them, didn’t make many mistakes, and played excellent defense. Those are marks of a tough, focused team. So chalk one up for becoming a tough team to play, at least for this week, but they still have to do that at least 16 more times. If they can do that even 3/4 of the time Mayo will have had a successful rookie season as a head coach. Then the bar will get raised next season, as wins and losses will become the criteria for him to keep his job. Mayo is a good guy, and I honestly can’t understand why any Patriot fan would be rooting against him. So stop listening to loud mouthed assholes on Boston Sports Radio, and watch them play and come to your own conclusions.
And Felger is never right, he’s just a contrarian ******* who takes whatever position he believes will piss the most people off. This means he is never right because he actually doesn’t believe the **** that comes out of his mouth, he just says it to drive the clicks. And he may get paid well, but making a career out of being a deliberate ******* is a sad way to go through life.
