Jerod Mayo Changing Patriots Culture for the Better?

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Mayo culture change? Patriots OL Calvin Anderson says, "He puts an emphasis on relationship." "Makes it so much easier to buy in." Greg: "Did Bill not know everyone's name?" Thoughts on Anderson's comments?

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00:00Let's begin with your New England Patriots.

00:01Calvin Anderson spoke after practice yesterday and talked about the kind of culture that

00:07Gerard Mayo is creating and how maybe it's different than cultures of the past.

00:12He puts an emphasis on relationship.

00:14I think that helps the team culture.

00:15I don't know how other head coaches are, but Mayo walks around knowing his guys.

00:19So you walk around, you feel like you have a personal relationship with him.

00:22Makes it so much easier to buy in, obviously, when we're on the field.

00:25You can feel him when he's walking through.

00:26When you have a coach that prioritizes that relationship part, which gets lost in business,

00:31it brings you back to why we love to play this game, which is the team aspect of playing

00:34football.

00:35And so it's much easier to play as a team when you have that relationship part.

00:37He emphasizes that, which I think everybody is much better for.

00:41Okay.

00:43So did Bill not know everybody's name or?

00:47That cannot be.

00:48Bill Belichick knew our names.

00:50So unfortunately.

00:51Did he?

00:52Yes, he used it.

00:56Whenever he was upset, he would use our names.

00:58Did Bears have to remind him every time he walked in?

01:00No, I think I don't like to think that way, Sean.

01:02I think the angst with Bill towards Courtney was more Jordan based than anything else.

01:06But I, this stuff is fine and it's whatever.

01:12None of this matters if the team stinks.

01:15Like Pete Carroll, was there ever a bigger rah-rah guy than Pete Carroll who came in

01:21and it, right?

01:22I mean, he was like a cheerleader walking around, but he got fired because the team

01:24wasn't good.

01:26Isn't it what today's player wants?

01:28It's also what Robert Kraft used to talk to Arthur Blank about how nobody knew Bill.

01:34Bill was standoffish.

01:35Like I think that the new generation requires some touchy feely from their, even their football

01:42coach.

01:43Everywhere you mean, and not only in football, but in every workplace.

01:46And is it more important to today's young football player to win a Superbowl or to be

01:54playing in a place where the vibe is great and there's no pressure.

02:00It is.

02:01Yeah.

02:02Because look at how wild is that?

02:04I don't know.

02:05But I wish we were here every day, but specifically on this topic, because when we went to Georgia,

02:11he wasn't the number one recruit, but he was, you know, a division one scholarship athlete

02:14in the sec.

02:16In that generation, even when I was in school, there wasn't the NIL, there wasn't this like

02:22insane Courtney.

02:23Would you agree?

02:24Like the last 10 years, every facility has been like one upping each other.

02:28Like the LSU one, everybody's got like a game system and Clemson has like a slide in the

02:33middle of it.

02:34It's nonsense.

02:35It's like things that the athletes, a celebrity in college has grown up, grown, grown exponentially.

02:43And they have been, now these guys are coming into the league with NIL deals.

02:47So there's not the ability, the hard ass approach really is something that is foreign to the

02:52vast majority of these guys.

02:53I mean, my guess is that Bill Belichick knew everybody's name and it was the way in which

02:59he would express those names.

03:02That was bothersome to somebody like Calvin Anderson, as opposed to the way Gerard Mayo

03:08is saying his name.

03:09He may have given them a bit of a nickname at times.

03:11Yes.

03:12Or it may have been in a louder voice or something, and we know how anxious that can make some.

03:18I would also say for Calvin Anderson and others to go listen to people like Julian

03:22Edelman, Rob Gronkowski, or Tom, people that had issues with Bill when they played for

03:27him.

03:28But overwhelmingly, the people that have stopped playing for Bill express deep gratitude for

03:34how he coached because it was hard in the moment, but it brought the best out of them.

03:39This is Tony from Rhode Island.

03:41What's up, Tony?

03:42Hey guys, how you guys doing this morning?

03:45What's going on?

03:47I just wanted to give Courtney her flowers.

03:50You know, you, Greg, you're a triple OG, you're a veteran, so is Curtis.

03:55And at first, I wasn't a huge fan of Courtney, but I just want to say that she won't be over.

04:01She's held it on her own and her to keep doing her thing.

04:05You know what I'm saying?

04:08She's been there and I just want to give her a little bit of advice.

04:11Don't let the trolls get to you because I used to be a troll and deep down inside all

04:17the people that troll you, they just, they just haven't admitted yet, but they actually

04:20like you.

04:21They love you.

04:22And the show would not be the same without you.

04:25She would prefer actual flowers, not the, not the virtual flowers, but thank you, Tony.

04:29It's like my whole family's cult.

04:31Your turn, dad.

04:33All right.

04:34What's next, Sean?

04:35Next, we'll stay with the Patriots here.

04:37After camp yesterday, Keyon White actually spoke with Gresh and Fourier and Gresh asked

04:43a long-winded question, but Keyon's answers were the best part of this.

04:46What were some of the D-line points of emphasis that you tried to work on this off season?

04:53Everybody wants to get better, but were there a couple of things in particular that you

04:56really honed in on?

04:58Definitely.

04:59So nothing physically.

05:00I think I've shown that I can play out here physically, but for more so, just the awareness

05:05and mental and being able to anticipate blocks, understand offenses and understand what they're

05:10trying to do based off of sets, alignments and things like that.

05:14So were you in the simulator or was this all kind of mental stuff, film watching?

05:18No, he's just kind of like lock yourself in a dark room and just learn the s**t, so.

05:23Lock yourself.

05:24Do they have any dark rooms in this, in the stadium right now where you can do that?

05:27Yeah, for sure.

05:28Okay.

05:29All right, good.

05:30They got the Belichick dungeon for sure.

05:31Oh, wait a minute.

05:32Geez.

05:33He brought up Bill Belichick.

05:34So wait, it's the Bill Belichick dungeon.

05:36So is he conducting himself in the way that Bill taught him how to conduct himself in

05:40the off season to get ready?

05:42Seems like he might be.

05:43Wow.

05:44Okay.

05:45But all of these, he hasn't been told that you can't mention Bill's name down there yet.

05:49Gerard Mayo entire football life is Belichick.

05:53He was drafted by Belichick, played for Belichick, came out of the private sector at Belichick's

05:58request to be a coach.

06:00I mean, it would be odd if there weren't elements.

06:03Like the people that are trying to hate on Mayo, which I would say you're not, but Gresh

06:09definitely are in a way going to be like, if Mayo's successful, it's good for Bill Belichick

06:15in a way.

06:16It's finally a branch that's been successful off his coaching career.

06:19I don't think anybody's hating on Mayo.

06:21I just think the jury is out on whether that approach is going to work here with this Patriots

06:28team.

06:29But I think the jury's out.

06:30I don't think the jury that Bill can't coach this team successfully the way this team is

06:33currently coached his team successfully for 20 plus years, the most successful ever to

06:38do it.

06:39But he hasn't been successful with this, this roster as it was composed for five years.

06:47He was, he made the playoffs three years ago.

06:49I mean, that's in a lot of five years, huh?

06:53Once in five years.

06:54Yeah.

06:55I mean, yes.

06:56I mean, you can't sustained.

06:57Did you expect that they were going to win a Superbowl every single season?

07:00No, but is it too much to expect to be in the playoffs more consistently than 20%?

07:06When do you think Gerard Mayo wins a Superbowl?

07:08What's your guess?

07:09Uh, because of Drake may probably 2027.

07:12Okay.

07:13But I love that bold prediction than the coach.

07:19So three years from now, you have this team winning the three, four years, 27, 28, something

07:23like that.

07:24Okay.

07:25So last year at this time, almost exactly.

07:27Bill Belichick told me that the Rams and the bucks sold their souls with spending.

07:33And that that's why the Patriots had to have this long sustained rebuild.

07:38And then the bucks won a playoff game.

07:41The Rams made the playoffs like the P bill Belichick is the greatest coach of all time.

07:46But there, I know that he can't succeed with this team.

07:50He's, we've had, this would be the fifth year.

07:53They have gotten progressively worse the last two and for whatever reason, it just

07:58wasn't working.

07:59Gerard Mayo may fail too.

08:00I have no idea, but if he does, he'll just be what Bill Belichick was at the end.

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