When do you think Mayo was fired [after]? (Arizona, Chargers or Bills game)

[cmasspatsfan]

I bet it was about halfway through the season they knew they made a mistake; they rode it out because it didn't matter at that point and fired him right after the last game.

 

[Real fan 02]

I do firmly believe Jonathon is making many of the decisions
I do firmly believe he knew Mayo was a goner mid way thru the season, only having to convince his father.
he did coming off that buy week with the team playing poorly
the announcement was a formality

Supposed he was not really a cheerleader in the mayo hire.. but RK had already had the succession clause in mayo's deal..

 

[Huckleberry1]

I bet it was about halfway through the season they knew they made a mistake; they rode it out because it didn't matter at that point and fired him right after the last game.

I would guess that’s when they started seriously thinking about it, but Kraft loves Mayo and I think it was really hard for him to pull the plug on him.

 

[jlu52]

Blunder and Thunder, dynamic duo.

Thunder and Blunder turn the team Asunder.

 

[varjao]

I would guess that’s when they started seriously thinking about it, but Kraft loves Mayo and I think it was really hard for him to pull the plug on him.

Retaining Mayo for another year would be a decision with catastrophic consequences, probably wasting Maye's rookie window and development would be just one of them, not to mention the ticket sales, difficulties to hire staff, the franchise would be in the toilet at full display.

Maybe it was hard from an friendship standpoint but on the business side it was pretty easy and obvious.

 

[Huckleberry1]

Retaining Mayo for another year would be a decision with catastrophic consequences, probably wasting Maye's rookie window and development would be just one of them, not to mention the ticket sales, difficulties to hire staff, the franchise would be in the toilet at full display.

Maybe it was hard from an friendship standpoint but on the business side it was pretty easy and obvious.

Agree completely. No one would have wanted to play here, the roster would have remained uncompetitive, and Mayes development vs would have been severely stunted from playing in a **** offense.

 

[Salsalife]

Would have solidify the first round pick if he didn't coach the last game.

 

[FredFromDartmouth]

Mayo was a dead man walking in June. The draft had been a disaster and the FA period was pathetic and this on top of a terrible team, bled white by BB's dreadful drafting. No coach could have done much with the cards that were handed to Mayo...and Mayo was a rookie.

 

[The Gr8est]

Would have solidify the first round pick if he didn't coach the last game.

While true, no one ever seems to mention that the Pats were sitting at the top pick going into the last week, because the Giants had won the week before.

Takes the full 17 weeks to determine the draft order.

 

[Force Zero Boomer]

I wish him and his family well. He was a highly respected player and assistant for a lot of years. I’d like get back to thinking of him in that light again. I’m getting there quickly.

I'm not letting that toxic, lazy, blame-shifting, stupid, and racist coward off the hook. And he was a horrible coach.

 

[WhatJustHappened]

Racist fk can sit on a box of ****s..
Fk that loser.

 

[One-If-By-Sea]

I'm not letting that toxic, lazy, blame-shifting, stupid, and racist coward off the hook. And he was a horrible coach.

I don't think Mayo was lazy.

 

[Thelonious]

Effectively, he fired himself the moment he accepted a job for which he ought to have known he was unqualified. Or you could say the Krafts fired him the moment they offered him a job for which he was unqualified. It is genuinely bizarre that the Krafts regarded an elderly owner's tendresse for a charming travel companion as sufficient basis for hiring a head coach. Combine that with the various oddball decisions made in Bill's declining years and you have a really strange interlude in the team's history. We were like the proverbial toad in a pan of slowly heating water. Anaesthetized by the habit of winning and by an unwarranted expectation that we would continue to win because that's just how it goes, we didn't notice how toxic things were getting. As we return to a more normal state of affairs, which the hiring of Vrabel promises to bring (we trust), I think we will realize this more and more. It's time, though, to concentrate on rebuilding, and on that front, things look pretty good.

 

[Thelonious]

I don't think Mayo was lazy.

He was incompetent. It is not that he avoided doing the right thing because he is work-shy. He failed because he had no idea what he ought to be doing, and just kept emitting irrelevant and shifting coach speak, pseudo-corporate hogwash, and woke nonsense, all the while hoping that his equally incompetent staff could somehow "collaborate" their way to competence. The incompetence of the coaching staff, of course, was the result of incompetence on the part of the owners, who hired the whole dismal crew for irresponsibly whimsical reasons. They liked the guy. So what?

Sorry for all the "incompetents" in this, but when the shoe fits....

 

[Thelonious]

Racist fk can sit on a box of ****s..
Fk that loser.

Losing track. Who exactly was the "racist fk" in this? "Racist" means so many different things these days - everything from genuine racism to simple honesty about matters of race - that it is difficult to know what any particular user means by the term.

 

[One-If-By-Sea]

He was incompetent. It is not that he avoided doing the right thing because he is work-shy. He failed because he had no idea what he ought to be doing, and just kept emitting irrelevant and shifting coach speak, pseudo-corporate hogwash, and woke nonsense, all the while hoping that his equally incompetent staff could somehow "collaborate" their way to competence. The incompetence of the coaching staff, of course, was the result of incompetence on the part of the owners, who hired the whole dismal crew for irresponsibly whimsical reasons. They liked the guy. So what?

Sorry for all the "incompetents" in this, but when the shoe fits....

It was a joke. Maybe too subtle for you?

 

[Huckleberry1]

I don't think Mayo was lazy.

I don’t think he was a racist. He simply wasn’t a head coach.

 

[One-If-By-Sea]

I don’t think he was a racist. He simply wasn’t a head coach.

I agree. Mayo appeared steeped in the DEI theology. I think that is why some people think racism.

 

[Huckleberry1]

I agree. Mayo appeared steeped in the DEI theology. I think that is why some people think racism.

Or it could be that he took Maye over Spencer Rattler. Mayo just doesn’t like black people.

 

[Free_Pacman]

He was fired when: they (including him) only signed their own players in FA, and they (including him) hired drunks, addicts, and bums for his coaching staff.

What’s the story behind this?