Mayo's Intoductory Press Conference

cmasspatsfan said:

I agree and I think that's what he meant.

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Which part?

Let me explain the points that I thought were obvious but based upon responses clearly aren’t.
We hired a HC to run the franchise.
I saw one that at his first opportunity gave no clear communication about what he wants to make the team into.

I didn’t hear:
-We want to be physical and beat the crap out of opponents
-we want to build a fast athletic team
-we want to play commentary football
-We need to build a team around a QB
-We will have a top defense and prioritize that
-we will be the most prepared and discipline team
-we will be about having fun out there

Or anything like that.
I didn’t even hear, when asked when does he expect to make the playoffs, something like “we will go into every game expecting to win, and my goal is to make the playoffs year 1”

Instead we are seeing the OC leave, and with it the only offensive scheme Mayo has ever played or coached with being terminated. So we will be brining in an OC who will bring an offense that Mayo has never been around and will have no say in.
We are seeing DCs being interviewed from NO, Carolina and Denver that do not have experience in the only defense Mayo has ever coached or played in, so if appears the no echo chamber approach will mean we are changing the defensive system too.
We are interview outside for special teams, so that system appears to also be changing to something Mayo has never worked with.

So we have an inexperienced guy hiring people he has no experience with who run different systems than he has ever been around telling us his priority is no echo chamber, after giving no clear description of an identity he wants to create.

For me, this is a big problem. I guess if you hire a bad coach you would want him to be removed the identity of the team, but I was hoping we hired a good one, and these issues mean that won’t matter because our success will now depend on the identity the assistants decide to roll out.

cmasspatsfan said:

You really believe that? he got the job because they believe he can do the job.

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I believe Kraft felt obligated to hire Mayo, because he mentioned him as a possible
Candidate over a a year ago.

Kraft may be a great owner and Business man, but he never struck me as courageous

Kraft funds Harvard Business school.

I do not believe he has the balls to cutoff funding after how they treated the Jewish students

What’s more important, the treatment of Jewish students or wearing a pin properly?

We know what’s more important to Kraft and I have a hard time feeling any sympathy for Kraft

My personal opinion, Mayo got the job, so Bob Kraft would not be called racist

You may not agree, but I am not alone

cupofjoe1962 said:

I believe Kraft felt obligated to hire Mayo, because he mentioned him as a possible
Candidate over a a year ago.

Kraft may be a great owner and Business man, but he never struck me as courageous

Kraft funds Harvard Business school.

I do not believe he has the balls to cutoff funding after how they treated the Jewish students

What’s more important, the treatment of Jewish students or wearing a pin properly?

We know what’s more important to Kraft and I have a hard time feeling any sympathy for Kraft

My personal opinion, Mayo got the job, so Bob Kraft would not be called racist

You may not agree, but I am not alone

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Yeah it couldn't be because Kraft always thought of Mayo as a successor and just went with his plan.

lancerman said:

Yeah it couldn't be because Kraft always thought of Mayo as a successor and just went with his plan.

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Maybe, but that doesn’t change the fact that Pledge pin Kraft does not have the balls to pull his funding for a antisemite
University

Instead, cowardly Kraft hands out pledge pins

cupofjoe1962 said:

Maybe, but that doesn’t change the fact that Pledge pin Kraft does not have the balls to pull his funding for a antisemite
University

Instead, cowardly Kraft hands out pledge pins

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That's an altogether different matter. He wants his football team to win so I think he made the decision that he thinks best gives them the chance.

cupofjoe1962 said:

Maybe, but that doesn’t change the fact that Pledge pin Kraft does not have the balls to pull his funding for a antisemite
University

Instead, cowardly Kraft hands out pledge pins

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The last mention of Kraft donating to Harvard Business School was in 2022 pre war. Do you know for a fact he's donated since, specifically since the controversy or at least since the issue and before they ousted the controversial President? Because it sounds like you are making up a narrative.

Ring 6 said:

Which part?

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"One thing you'll notice about me in our interaction as we continue to go, is I don't like echo chambers. I want people around me that are going to question my ideas or yes question the way we have done things in the past because realistically this game is a lot different than when I was drafted in 2008. At the same time, that's why I try to spend so much time developing young men and young women. I don't want to teach them what to think, I want to teach them how to think."

cmasspatsfan said:

"One thing you'll notice about me in our interaction as we continue to go, is I don't like echo chambers. I want people around me that are going to question my ideas or yes question the way we have done things in the past because realistically this game is a lot different than when I was drafted in 2008. At the same time, that's why I try to spend so much time developing young men and young women. I don't want to teach them what to think, I want to teach them how to think."

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That’s the scary part. We hired a hc who may be about to abandon everything he has ever learned and turn the team over to coaches he has never worked with and never worked within the system they are going to bring.

Kdo5 said:

You’re a pretty weird guy with this whole low-T tangent. You’ve evidently run out of anything half-intelligent to say.

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Were you not the one in here talking about how we can't dismiss Mayo's lived truth and feelings as a black man, and that sucking up to your boss is necessary to get ahead?

Like I said, you sound like a gigantic ****y.

cmasspatsfan said:

That's an altogether different matter. He wants his football team to win so I think he made the decision that he thinks best gives them the chance.

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You are entitled to your opinion & I am entitled to mine.

I believe Kraft hired him to avoid the whole race issue

He made a mistake mentioning Mayo as a possible head coach last year.

Only time will tell if it was a good decision, but if Mayo was a stock, I would be shorting it

lancerman said:

The last mention of Kraft donating to Harvard Business School was in 2022 pre war. Do you know for a fact he's donated since, specifically since the controversy or at least since the issue and before they ousted the controversial President? Because it sounds like you are making up a narrative.

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Well obviously you didn’t do your homework

Did you ever hear of the Robert K Kraft family fellowship fund at HBS?

The Kraft family continues their long-standing commitment to and support of fellowship programs at HBS

Let me know when it is discontinued
Until then, Kraft is supporting antisemite’s

Jlaff said:

Were you not the one in here talking about how we can't dismiss Mayo's lived truth and feelings as a black man, and that sucking up to your boss is necessary to get ahead?

Like I said, you sound like a gigantic ****y.

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Well to be frank, my posts were basically pointing out that you are ignorant af. Was trying to show a little more decorum until you called me a ****y.

Hope that’s all cleared up for you.

Horace's Ivories said:

Bill's ouster has enabled Krafty to create his dream woke organization.

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The pick might be insurance if he's going to massage parlors still. Seriously. And Mayo's statements make me think this is going to be a disaster

Kdo5 said:

How do you know Kraft didn’t hire Mayo based on merit?

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Mayo's statements, "I was hired to be a black coach," instead of "I was hired to be the head coach."

Kraft said all the right things. And Mayo is sitting there saying the opposite.

Kdo5 said:

So you’re saying he was chosen because he was black.

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What Mayo said can lead anyone to believe that. It was one of the most strange statements I've heard in sports in a long time

cmasspatsfan said:

That's an altogether different matter. He wants his football team to win so I think he made the decision that he thinks best gives them the chance.

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Do you honestly believe that hiring Jerod Mayo is the thing that gives the team the best chance to win vs all of the other possible candidates? If so, answer this: what about Harbaugh?

I’m excited about the upcoming season. We will have a new QB. And hopefully MHJR.

I’d like to see a new OC and a new offensive line coach.
Maybe bring back Dante for a year or two as a consultant.

Boogs said:

Mayo's statements, "I was hired to be a black coach," instead of "I was hired to be the head coach."

Kraft said all the right things. And Mayo is sitting there saying the opposite.

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That's not completely accurate. These are the 2 instances where he used black head coach.

1. Opening statement:

"You'd better believe being the first Black coach here in New England means a lot to me. But those guys taught me you have to take ideas from other people, Black, white, green, yellow. Really doesn't matter. Old, young."

It's a historical event. NE was among 13 teams (40%) that never had a black head coach. Now there's 12.

2. In response to this question:
Q: Robert, Jerod said that being the first Black coach was important to him. Curious, what does it mean to you?

After Robert spoke, Mayo said:
"I appreciate Thunder and the organization selecting me to be a Black head coach."

So it was in response to a question about being a black head coach.

I think you guys are making way too much about a man, that happens to be black, being proud that he's the first black HC of the NE Patriots. The color of his skin doesn't define him, but there's no reason for him not to be proud of it either. It's not like it isn't the topic of conversation every season when it comes time to select HCs. This season there were 4 out of 32 (12%) in a league were 70% of the players are black. Now we also have Antonio Pierce, although the Raiders were a team under Al Davis that promoted minorities and women way before the Rooney Rule ever existed.

I hope moving forward we'll evaluate Mayo based on his performance and not the color of his skin.

venecol said:

That's not completely accurate. These are the 2 instances where he used black head coach.

1. Opening statement:

"You'd better believe being the first Black coach here in New England means a lot to me. But those guys taught me you have to take ideas from other people, Black, white, green, yellow. Really doesn't matter. Old, young."

It's a historical event. NE was among 13 teams (40%) that never had a black head coach. Now there's 12.

2. In response to this question:
Q: Robert, Jerod said that being the first Black coach was important to him. Curious, what does it mean to you?

After Robert spoke, Mayo said:
"I appreciate Thunder and the organization selecting me to be a Black head coach."

So it was in response to a question about being a black head coach.

I think you guys are making way too much about a man, that happens to be black, being proud that he's the first black HC of the NE Patriots. The color of his skin doesn't define him, but there's no reason for him not to be proud of it either. It's not like it isn't the topic of conversation every season when it comes time to select HCs. This season there were 4 out of 32 (12%) in a league were 70% of the players are black. Now we also have Antonio Pierce, although the Raiders were a team under Al Davis that promoted minorities and women way before the Rooney Rule ever existed.

I hope moving forward we'll evaluate Mayo based on his performance and not the color of his skin.

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Play the video again and listen to him. He said, "They selected me to be a black head coach." This one of the most odd things I've heard in sports for a while. And it's made worse by him saying the world should look like his locker room. And he says he's not colorblind so he can see the racism. Is Mayo always looking at skin color so he can go around looking for racism in a locker room? There's red flags here with Mayo and what he's all about. Mayo is fully invested into DEI, finding racism and in a locker room, this is not good. He should hire the best coaches, find the best players and not be focused on making the percentage of skin colors look exactly like the world. Him being hyperfocused on color of skin is probably going to cause divisions. Most teammates don't care what color skin the players have, they look right past that, because that's their teammates they go to battle with.