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Is it beneath Belichick to continue to insinuate downplaying Mayo's coaching?
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10/22/2024
Is it beneath Belichick to continue to insinuate downplaying Mayo's coaching? Is this team "soft" or just playing soft
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I had this fear wash over me yesterday. I was driving in my car. I was listening to my guy,
00:06
Drake May, do the interview at the afternoon show. I thought Drake sounded great.
00:10
He sounded like a leader.
00:12
He did a really good job.
00:15
You're a great leader, Greg.
00:16
Thank you, Curtis.
00:17
You're a great, amazing facilitator, Greg, I gotta say. Drake May could learn a thing from you.
00:21
Wait a minute. Facilitator?
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Sounds like you're calling me a game manager.
00:25
No, like what Drake May does. Drake May's big thing he loves
00:29
is his high school coach even talked about this. Drake May would look at the box score during
00:33
halftime to make sure that everybody on the field was getting targets. He was a great distributor.
00:39
You kind of just called Greg Joe Flacco.
00:41
Nope, I called him Drake May, who's my favorite person on the planet,
00:44
so there you go. It's a great comparison. Either way, I had this fear wash over me yesterday
00:48
that Drake May is the next Matthew Stafford in that he is a part of an organization where he
00:55
continues to excel, but nothing around him is ever in a place where there is any hope.
01:02
They may have one playoff run where they go 11-5 and they get screwed by a bad call that goes in
01:07
favor of the Cowboys because the Cowboys' TV market is way bigger than Detroit's, but that
01:12
point aside, it just feels like I'm worried that Drake May is entering a hopeless situation.
01:18
I really don't want that to be the case. I like Gerard Mayo. I love this team.
01:22
I've been a fan of them my entire life, and so I want nothing but Drake May to succeed here,
01:29
but I'm getting nervous that that's not going to be the case.
01:33
And again, I'm going to be the optimist here. What shows you that this organization,
01:38
who must have identified him the same way you have,
01:42
is not going to spend and do whatever they can to make him better?
01:47
Well, I don't think they identified him the same way I did because if they did,
01:50
they would have started him in week one. They would have been more prepared for him to start
01:56
right away for this team, and they weren't. They never were. They never made a concerted effort to
02:04
make sure he was prepared and everything else around him was going to be stable enough for
02:08
him to have success right away. And so I am concerned that they lucked into how good Drake
02:16
May is, and they are not prepared or willing to spend and support him in the way that they should.
02:22
I think the concern is that Elliot Wolfe is not the guy, and maybe Gerard Mayo is not the guy.
02:32
And it's early, I get it, on both of them to say that, but there are a lot of people who feel that
02:38
way, Wiggy. Well, I think it's because of maybe some of the things that Mayo say. We won't really
02:42
know if they're going to end up in the Detroit way until this offseason. If they don't actively
02:49
pursue guys, big name guys in free agency, like really start to put players around them when you
02:55
can go, okay, they are trying to do that. I don't believe that they're not going to do that because
03:00
there's no way Robert Kraft is just going to allow this to continue, especially after how much
03:06
this team is getting criticized, not just here locally, but all over the place.
03:11
So there's no way Robert just sits back and goes, all right, don't worry about it. We're
03:14
not spending no money to help out Drake May next year. All right, Chime, great lead to get us
03:19
started this morning. Hello, Curtis. Hi, Greg. So if you missed it at the beginning of the show,
03:23
you can rewind. Greg and I had a good back and forth about Bill's comments yesterday,
03:28
attacking, rightfully so, the bad job of Gerard Mayo to start his coaching tenure here.
03:34
I would just restate very succinctly that the Patriots were 7th in points allowed in 99.
03:41
They went back to 17th in 2000 when Bill Belichick took over. They were 8th in total
03:46
yards allowed on defense. They were 20th. And that is a defense with Ty Law, Willie McGinnis,
03:52
Teddy Bruschi, Ted Johnson, Lawyer Malloy, Roman Pfeiffer, a very talented defense, a defense
04:00
exponentially more talented than this one. And one thing, because if you don't learn from history,
04:06
you're doomed to repeat it. I found this yesterday and it's just interesting to
04:10
understand where Bill was entering the first home game after the terrorist attacks of 9-11.
04:17
There was a conversation with Herman Edwards, who recalled the conversation with Mike Reese,
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where he said, I'm walking on the field. I'm talking with him. He's standing right next to
04:26
me. I asked how he's doing. He said, quote, we're horrible. We effing stink. He said,
04:32
the quarterback is going to get me fired. I know Kraft is going to fire me before the season's out.
04:39
So obviously we know what happened that day. We know how everybody changed. We know that Bill
04:44
Belichick, before the Super Bowl, made the single greatest coaching decision in my lifetime in
04:50
choosing Tom over Drew. And that's both of them created this. I'm not relitigating history.
04:56
It's just beneath Bill Belichick. It is. We all know it. Everybody's been saying it for you, Bill,
05:02
to go out there and try and kick a guy who, for better or worse, is going to be viewed as someone
05:08
you mentored with your son still on the staff. It's just, I don't know, not what I would do.
05:14
They've been kicking him repeatedly for months, though, at a certain point.
05:19
When Tom Brady won a Super Bowl in Tampa, did he say, F you, New England?
05:23
No, no.
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Because he did it. You don't need to tell anybody you did it.
05:27
Yeah, but they didn't smear Tom Brady when Tom Brady left here. And the whole Bill thing,
05:32
I am confused. Wasn't he just asked the question about Mayo and his team?
05:37
He controls what they talk about, Wiggy.
05:40
He wasn't even asked about Mayo. He was asked about Drake May and then immediately
05:45
pivoted in the middle of his answer into Mayo calling the player soft.
05:49
Okay. Okay, but is he not right?
05:52
Of course he's right. Gerard Mayo's had an awful start.
05:55
Gerard Mayo takes a step forward and says this team is soft and then feels the need to come on
06:03
this show yesterday and walk it back. Like, I agree with Bill. Like, Bill knows that team,
06:11
most of them, better than anybody else, and he doesn't think they're soft. So I, you know.
06:16
That's why I was a little concerned when I said that, when I said yesterday, wait a second,
06:20
I feel some type of way if my head coach was like, we're soft. I'd be like, hold on, what you
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mean we're soft? And then I think he, and then he comes back and he says the way we played in that
06:31
game was soft. Okay. All right. Well say that then. You know what I mean?
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I don't know. I'm a petty SOB. And I think that it's, some people can only take so much. And
06:43
Bill has bit his tongue for months and months and months after Dynasty during the roast on and on.
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And they've taken shots at him every chance they get. So for Bill to sit there and be fed up and
06:54
just say a little slight comment about how he would handle things and how Gerard handled them.
07:00
They did him dirty. Well, who threw the first stone in the whole thing about this whole soft
07:05
thing? Wasn't it Mayo last week when, when he was on our show, asked about the roster.
07:11
About the roster. I hate to take credit for all this, but I think it was that.
07:14
It probably was. I'm serious. That pissed off Lombardi. That pissed off Bill.
07:18
Made it seem like that. Well, no, it made it seem like they were using the roster as an excuse.
07:24
Yeah. We weren't left with much. But is that true?
07:28
What? Was the roster really bad?
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No, no. It was virtually the same roster. That went four and 13.
07:35
Yeah. And with a quarterback would have gone, you know, with Drake May would have gone.
07:39
If the head coach talked to the quarterback, they might've been better. They were four and 13.
07:43
But your defense was significantly better last year.
07:47
They were. There's no denying that.
07:49
Right. They also had Christian Barmore, Matthew Judon. They also had John Bentley,
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the middle linebacker.
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They lost eight games last season by one score.
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Great.
08:00
It's completely different than what you saw when you get blown out by the lowly Jaguars.
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Nobody's disputing Sunday was a disaster, a debacle. Gerard Mayo has not done a good job.
08:09
I'm not defending him. I'm just saying, we're talking about this team. Like they were a playoff
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team. They won four games. No, no, no. But the quarterbacks, they lost to Tommy cutlets,
08:19
whatever his name was. But the conversation was Sam Ellinger.
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The conversation.
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Great. Now I have to have cutlets for lunch.
08:25
Yum.
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The conversation was the defense.
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I love a good cutlets.
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I prefer sometimes mayo, lettuce, tomato to the, to the gravy and cheese, but go ahead.
08:34
The conversation was the defense was far better last year. And you had guys that were
08:40
hurt. Judon was hurt. Gonzalez was hurt last year. Who else was hurt? Uh, Jonathan Jones,
08:45
wasn't he out for like the whole season?
08:47
Ramond Ray was hurt for a bit.
08:48
Well, there was a deal. I'm talking defensively. There was a bunch of guys.
08:51
So the conversation was this defense. And I thought I was one of the people standing on
08:56
the mountaintop saying, oh, this is going to be a top 10 defense. Maybe even top five,
09:01
even with Judon being gone because all right, it looks like Keon white might be able to replace
09:05
some of that production. This defense might be at the bottom of the league when it comes to,
09:12
by the end of the season, last year, your defense was at the top of the league and total yards
09:19
and rushing you, you were like, you know, 11th and passing. So you had a far better defense.
09:26
And it was because of the quarterback. If Drake makes the quarterback of this football team,
09:31
last year, your team is probably a fighting for a player.
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That is such a disingenuous argument in defense of bill Belichick, a guy that despised
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that position. The reason he despised Mac Jones and Tom Brady.
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He despised Mac Jones because of the way Mac Jones went about doing things and did not buy
09:56
into the system. He had no, he despised Mac Jones because he was honest about the bad coaching.
10:01
Come on. When did the relationship go into the wrong direction? When he, when he went to Dan
10:11
Orlovsky and started spilling secrets. No, when he was honest about how Matt Patricia and Joe
10:17
judge weren't coaching Dan Orlovsky. Right? Yeah. Bill, you know, that's wrong. Yes, that is wrong.
10:23
Okay. It's far more wrong to bring those two guys. We're not comparing.
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You asked the question about when Bill and Mac, when that relationship disintegrated,
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that was the point, right? Bill has been screwed over and over again by people that he's trusted.
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I don't blame Bill one bit for hating Mac Jones for that. Here's how it works. There's no different
10:42
than this. There's no different. If you don't like the way the afternoon show was set up
10:48
and you then going to people outside that have a little bit of a platform
10:55
and then complaining about those people on how bad Mike Thomas is doing his job when it comes to
11:02
setting up the afternoon show. I think that is bad business. You got to be, if you are, and you
11:08
might not agree with everything, but if you're part of that team and you're part of Bill's,
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you know, being under him as a coach, you just don't go bad mouth. Right. It's a respect thing.
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Yeah. You say like, all right, I don't agree with Matt Patricia being the offensive guy,
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but you know what? I'm going to be a good soldier. I'm going to suck it up and hopefully
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Bill will see it. And then guess what he did. He hired Billy O'Brien the next year.
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