From The Athletic - "Inside Mayo's Disastrous Season"

[Force Zero Boomer]

Mayo was not a multi millionaire before taking a HC job.

Jerod Mayo was absolutely, 100% a multi, multi millionaire. In 2011 he signed a contract worth $50,000,000, $25 mil guaranteed. You make zero sense and you make stuff up.

Mayo also didn't put anyone at risk. Every single person he brought on got a job they didn't have because of him and wouldn't have gotten that job if another HC job. If nothing else he brough a bunch of other people with him for a payday.

Already covered this. My argument isn't getting through to you. If you don't think Jerod Mayo didn't have an impact on the bottom line, and you think that the bottom line doesn't impact the employees of an organization, contractors and other businesses affiliated with them, I can't help you understand it. It's beyond you.

Don't compare a $50k to $175k bump to making several million a year. It's not in the same world. That's a difference in paying your bills and making a modest upgrade in your living situation to "your kids and grandchildren don't have to worry about finances for a long time and you can give them the best of everything".

Amazing how you completely, willfully misunderstood the argument. Jerod Mayo was already set for life. For many lifetimes. He didn't need the money. Jerod Mayo can already give his family the best of everything using his $42 mil in career earnings (haha, "Mayo was not a multi millionaire").

The argument is that smaller amounts of money mean more to people with less. $1,000,000 to me is a lot, and probably to you. Jerod Mayo could lose $1,000,000 tomorrow and it wouldn't impact his SoL one bit. And that $50K? It can be transformative. I know. I've gotten it. It was. I went from struggling to save anything to socking away money like crazy. Don't minimize it. It was huge and it DID help make a much better future for my family. There was nothing "modest" about it.

You're basically arguing a moral stance that a guy shouldn't have done what is best for his family and changed their lives and also helped his colleagues and friends get jobs they wouldn't have gotten because it impacts your enjoyment of a football team which is about the lowest stakes in the world. Honestly if someone ever tells you that you shouldn't look out for your family and friends who you are bringing because it might ruin their weekly football experience, kindly tell them to take a hike. You simply do not have the same level of stakes.

Covered this. You're moral compass is askew. I will not hurt other people and their families to enrich myself.

And now you are focusing this on me, as if Jerod Mayo's poor stewardship is only ruining my "enjoyment", which is frankly very low stakes according to you, lancerman. This is the biggest strawman I have ever seen on this board. It's hilarious. It's a such a joke I don't even want to respond, but whatever. The stakes go far beyond my enjoyment of the Patriots. A struggling franchise impacts many. Think of the many departments, contractors and businesses that work together to bring us Patriots football and merchandise. And if the Patriots struggle, it's about them too, right, lancerman?

Also if Mayo was this bad at the job, he wasn't getting a HC job again. So he in the end made the correct choice for him by taking the swing now.

But this isn't a moral thing.

This isn't a moral thing. It's football thing and a business thing.

Mayo's behavior was fundamentally selfish and anti-social and therefore immoral and irresponsible. But we're done. You're not buying what I'm selling, which I can only attribute to a lack of intelligence and moral virtue, but I'm open to other possibilities!

 

[Brotherblues]

Jerod Mayo was absolutely, 100% a multi, multi millionaire. In 2011 he signed a contract worth $50,000,000, $25 mil guaranteed. You make zero sense and you make stuff up.


Already covered this. My argument isn't getting through to you. If you don't think Jerod Mayo didn't have an impact on the bottom line, and you think that the bottom line doesn't impact the employees of an organization, contractors and other businesses affiliated with them, I can't help you understand it. It's beyond you.


Amazing how you completely, willfully misunderstood the argument. Jerod Mayo was already set for life. For many lifetimes. He didn't need the money. Jerod Mayo can already give his family the best of everything using his $42 mil in career earnings (haha, "Mayo was not a multi millionaire").

The argument is that smaller amounts of money mean more to people with less. $1,000,000 to me is a lot, and probably to you. Jerod Mayo could lose $1,000,000 tomorrow and it wouldn't impact his SoL one bit. And that $50K? It can be transformative. I know. I've gotten it. It was. I went from struggling to save anything to socking away money like crazy. Don't minimize it. It was huge and it DID help make a much better future for my family. There was nothing "modest" about it.


Covered this. You're moral compass is askew. I will not hurt other people and their families to enrich myself.

And now you are focusing this on me, as if Jerod Mayo's poor stewardship is only ruining my "enjoyment", which is frankly very low stakes according to you, lancerman. This is the biggest strawman I have ever seen on this board. It's hilarious. It's a such a joke I don't even want to respond, but whatever. The stakes go far beyond my enjoyment of the Patriots. A struggling franchise impacts many. Think of the many departments, contractors and businesses that work together to bring us Patriots football and merchandise. And if the Patriots struggle, it's about them too, right, lancerman?


Mayo's behavior was fundamentally selfish and anti-social and therefore immoral and irresponsible. But we're done. You're not buying what I'm selling, which I can only attribute to a lack of intelligence and moral virtue, but I'm open to other possibilities!

He'd already said his mea culpa...

Why the **** did I forget this dude was a player for the team lol. Never mind I take back everything I said.

@ForceZeroBoom I retract my statement. Leaving the post up for my shame.