The press needs to take the gloves off.

[Real fan 02]

LMAO **** him...Didn't want to talk about the game when they won but when they lose ha talks ****. How about some ownership of the ****ty roster you left them. Amazing coach but ****ty GM.

Edit: Matt and Joe are good coaches and will succeed whatever position they coach

Well at least he admitted the kicker was better than Chad WYDE-land. LMAO

 

[Real fan 02]

I apologize, I am just in a ****ty mood. I was alright until I heard Mayo say that JB is the starting QB. At this point I want all of em gone.

Ugh.. I know brother.. I am too it's one thing to looses but to look pathetic the way we have been.. just flat out sucks!!

 

[thecore762]

The Boston media needs to ask Jerod some really hard questions and grill and drill him about what he’s doing and is he suited or long to be the head coach.

Jerod, Wolf and Kraft need to feel the heat.

It’s a rebuilding season bruh. This team has long ways to go before we are competent. It takes time to rebuild a team. Anyone thinking Mayo fixing this team in his first year must be on some type of drug.

The o-line is garbage, need time to rebuild it via draft.
The rookie QB needs time to develop.
Rookie HC needs time to get better. No rookie HC is going to be successful in this first year with a young roster mostly built around the draft.

Take a step back and breathe. Maybe watch the Celtics when the nba season starts or the bruins.

 

[TheRainMaker]

The Boston media needs to ask Jerod some really hard questions and grill and drill him about what he’s doing and is he suited or long to be the head coach.

Jerod, Wolf and Kraft need to feel the heat.

It's amazing how the media was calling for Jerod Mayo to exit stage left during the 2023 season, but quickly flipped a 180 once he was hired as HC.

The media was too afraid to ask him tough questions like "is he suited" or whether he's qualified as that will backfired into making them look racist.

They will give him a pass for this season, but they will turn on him in year 2 if things don't turn around.

 

[Huckleberry1]

Because a blind man knew Daniels wasn't getting by Washington.

Daniels wasn’t going second in February and March. And you never said one word about wanting Daniels.

 

[PatsFan2]

Daniels wasn’t going second in February and March. And you never said one word about wanting Daniels.

 

[Huckleberry1]

It’s a rebuilding season bruh. This team has long ways to go before we are competent. It takes time to rebuild a team. Anyone thinking Mayo fixing this team in his first year must be on some type of drug.

The o-line is garbage, need time to rebuild it via draft.
The rookie QB needs time to develop.
Rookie HC needs time to get better. No rookie HC is going to be successful in this first year with a young roster mostly built around the draft.

Take a step back and breathe. Maybe watch the Celtics when the nba season starts or the bruins.

I agree. Seems like some here don’t remember that the 2000 Patriots went 5-11 and Tom Brady watched it all from the bench for a season. And the responsibility of the front office is to build a team that wins consistently over the long run, and not simply to “ entertain the fans” and make them happy each season. And keeping Maye on the bench while he learns their offense doesn’t make Mayo a puppet, it simply means that they are sticking with the plan they had for him when they drafted him. Whether fans like that or not doesn’t matter, what matters is Maye being ready to run the offense when he takes the field. This is how the GOAT and his greatest challenger for that title, Patrick Mahomes, both spent their rookie seasons, and both clearly benefitted from that experience greatly. It’s also how Eliot Wolf’s father ran the Packers, and they have had the longest run of high level QB play in league history, from Favre to Rodgers and now Rodgers to Love, so the approach clearly works. Whereas the Jets, to keep their fans happy, have thrown their young quarterbacks out there before they were ready and seen failure after failure, forcing them eventually to go after the Packers old QB’s in a desperate attempt to grab 1 Lombardi, an approach that clearly doesn’t work.

The bottom line for me is that the worst thing a GM can do is to make decisions just to keep the fans or owners happy. Their goal should be to build teams that will contend season after season, get into the tournament season after season, and win Lombardi’s because they are in contention season after season. Short term fixes to make people happy don’t work, as many franchises have learned after going on spending sprees to try and make an instant winner. What works is a plan that puts the pieces in place for long term success. That starts with finding a franchise caliber QB, building a really strong offensive line, and putting together a strong defense and solid depth on both sides of the ball. . That’s the foundation for long term success. Then add the offensive playmakers to put the team over the top in the tournament. If fans are impatient and demand instant success then tough **** for them, if they want to cry about not being entertained then by all means they can give up their season tickets, and go cry at home. There’s a long waiting list of people more than happy to take their places on Sunday afternoons. If the media trash them then **** them, they will trash them just as surely when they are winning as they do when they are losing, as was well proven during the Belichick years. Four games into the Wolf era the Patriots may well have found their franchise QB, and they have a good defense that is being hung out to dry by a terrible offense. What they don’t have is a strong offensive line, and that’s going to be the priority when the next offseason rolls around. If Wolf can fix that then the 25’ season is going to look much different than what we are currently witnessing, and that will be the real measure of track the Patriots are actually on.

 

[Huckleberry1]

Sounds like the "plan" is to sit Drake for a year. This is JB's show all the way to the Superbowl.

If so that’s a great plan, especially given that both Brady and Mahomes sat a year and have 10 Super Bowl rings between them.

 

[Huckleberry1]

Isn't that more of a bad team + QB not being ready (or good enough in the first place)? I'm ok with someone saying Drake isn't ready. I think it's harder to sell fans the "he'll get killed" option without making the Pats look like a clueless expansion team.

I believe the Patriots plan all along was to sit Maye for a season, and they brought Brissett in over other FA QB’s because he knows the offensive system Van Pelt runs. I don’t think they thought the OL would be this bad, or that Brissett would play this poorly, which is the reason many are clamoring for Maye. This being the case the Patriots( Wolf and Mayo) will now have to take the heat for the situation, and while Mayo may understandably want to start Maye to give them a better shot at winning games, Wolf is right in sticking to a plan where Maye learns the offense completely, and fixes the mechanical issues he brought with him from college. And one of the big downsides of playing Maye behind this OL is that it will likely undo any progress they have made on this mechanical issues if he’s getting heavy pressure every time he drops back.

There are a number of competing interests at play here. The first would be from the Kraft’s, and that is whether “ entertaining” the fans matters more than long term success. They could pressure Wolf to throw out the original plan and play Maye to keep the crybaby fans happy, this would be a big mistake for the long term good of the franchise. The second would be Wolf’s desire to follow the Green Bay protocol of sitting the young QB so they can learn the offense fully before they start them. That’s a plan for long term success over short term happiness. The third is from Mayo, who understandably wants to use every tool he has right now to win games, as his career is the one most affected by playing Brissett over Maye. Unfortunately for Mayo the GM has to do what is best long term, and not simply what’s best for next week. The fourth is from the fans, who always want a winner, but whose desire for instant success makes long term success harder to achieve. The last one is the pressure from sports media, to which the best and only good answer is both middle fingers right in their faces.

 

[Patsgofor4]

No way this happens. There is more to write about and talk about when things are bad.

Plus, Mayo has been bending over (backwards) to be the anti-Bill when it comes to the media. He jokes around with them and tells them lots of things (too many things). They aren’t going to harshly criticize their golden goose. Wolf may take a beating, though.

 

[Huckleberry1]

I liked Maye and JJ and only wanted either one of them. Maye if we stayed at 3 and JJ if we went to 11

I hope I didn’t quote you inadvertently. My response was to PF2, who is trying to rewrite his posting history. He didn’t want Daniels, he wanted them to trade the pick, and now that Daniels is off to a strong start he’s trying to pretend he wanted him all along, as well as trying to pretend that Daniels was expected to go 2nd all along, when in truth he didn’t move up to 2nd until late March/early April.

 

[Wozzy]

The press starting the take the gloves off, it's funny to watch. Holley and Bedard nearly come to blows over who to blame.

 

[Thelonious]

The approach to hiring a new HC - "I fell in love with the guy on our trip to Israel. He's just so darn nice." - was asinine, but Mayo deserves a fair shot. To this point, it's probably a "C," but we'll see how it goes. If you take into account his record of non-accomplishment even prior to the Mayo era, I think we already know that Wolfe has got to go, the sooner the better, in my mind. The OC is obviously limited. His game day management is lousy, and he has been as slow as molasses getting his putatively Magical offensive approach installed. I doubt very very much he'll be around past this season, but it would probably be too disruptive to ditch him now. What worthwhile alternative would be willing to take on the damned job anyway at this point? Hopefully the Giants will hand us Daboll, or something.

This team is junk. We get that, right? The first step to addressing any problem is to get honest about what the problem is.

 

[pats99]

The media cares about access and being friendly with the coaches and if you're nice to them you'll get good coverage from them for as long as they can give you it, the Krafts and the coaches will get the benefit of the doubt until it's impossible for the media to defend it any longer.

The way Bill treated the media they were all itching for any slippage to bury him.

The media only cares about one thing, ratings. Thats the bottom line. If there is a big story they going to want to get it out first, no matter who this affects, so called "friendly" coach or not. This is their job, how they get paid. And if its really slow and their isn't a story they are going to make one up.

 

[dliverey44]

I hope I didn’t quote you inadvertently. My response was to PF2, who is trying to rewrite his posting history. He didn’t want Daniels, he wanted them to trade the pick, and now that Daniels is off to a strong start he’s trying to pretend he wanted him all along, as well as trying to pretend that Daniels was expected to go 2nd all along, when in truth he didn’t move up to 2nd until late March/early April.

All good, I probably read that and thought ohh **** maybe at some point I wasn't clear on my QB wants. So your saying that not every post is directed at or to me. gottit. lol

Just me wanting to be a part of every convo

 

[203Pat]

LMAO **** him...Didn't want to talk about the game when they won but when they lose ha talks ****. How about some ownership of the ****ty roster you left them. Amazing coach but ****ty GM.

Edit: Matt and Joe are good coaches and will succeed whatever position they coach

His media appearances allow him for some hilariously petty shots at anyone he feels wronged him. Just kind of entertaining to watch him nuke any of his enemies with his motives being completely transparent.

 

[dliverey44]

I still listen to him because I love his recall and I would argue that noone knows as much about ball as he does.