What one piece of advice would HC Bill O'Brien give to first year #NFL HC Jerod Mayo?

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00:00And he joins us this morning bright and early.

00:02Hey, Bill.

00:04Hey, Greg.

00:05Hey, guys.

00:06How we doing?

00:07Good.

00:07How are you?

00:09I'm doing all right.

00:10Yeah, I mean, it's been a tough week.

00:12We've gotten after it this week in practice.

00:15And we got to be ready to go Friday night.

00:18So it's been an interesting week.

00:20But we're on the right track, I think.

00:22Well, I noticed that you said this week

00:25that you essentially need to, as the kids would say,

00:30take control of the Ox, or play DJ, or MC,

00:37or musical director.

00:38And you are not pleased with the musical selections

00:41at Alumni Stadium.

00:43Is that accurate?

00:45So when we came out for the last home game,

00:49there wasn't any in the warm-ups.

00:51I'm talking about pregame.

00:52And there wasn't really anybody in the stands.

00:54And the music, it felt like I was at an opera.

00:59You know what I mean?

01:01Ave Maria.

01:02And so, yeah, Ave Maria.

01:03You know what I mean?

01:04And so we're getting ready for a football game.

01:06I'm not blaming anybody.

01:07I'm just saying, so maybe we can get some people

01:10in the stands at 7 PM instead of right after kickoff.

01:13And we'll play some decent music.

01:15And if the music doesn't work this time,

01:17we'll try something else for the next home game.

01:19But I just try to get it going a little bit in the warm-ups.

01:24You know who could put together a fantastic playlist

01:28and essentially be your musical director at Boston College?

01:33Chime.

01:34No, Matt Patricia would be interested.

01:36If you're hiring.

01:46Here we go.

01:49Bill, when you look at your team,

01:52you have your past couple of weeks,

01:54you have a game where you have the lead.

01:56And then you have a game where you basically

01:58fight back and score 21 points in the third quarter,

02:00have an opportunity, fourth and one for midfield,

02:04and get a turnover on downs.

02:06With your team, you show the ability, all right,

02:09we can take a lead, but we got to be able to hold on to it.

02:11Then you show the ability, we were down,

02:14we were able to get back, but we weren't able to finish.

02:16What are some of the messages that you can take away

02:20that might be positive from, you know,

02:24situations where past couple of weeks look pretty bleak?

02:29Yeah, definitely, we're a streaky team, you know,

02:31and so what we have to learn is that's not what you want to be.

02:36You want to be a consistent team,

02:37and we want to try to make sure these guys understand

02:41how important it is to play 60 minutes.

02:43When you look at these games in college football

02:46around the country, you know,

02:47these games, a lot of them go down to the wire.

02:49It doesn't matter who's playing each other.

02:51It doesn't really matter.

02:52So we've got to deal with the adversity better.

02:55We've got to deal with the success better.

02:57And so I think that's one thing that we've really tried to,

03:00you know, we've talked about it a lot this week,

03:02but we've also worked on it in practice, right?

03:04Like sudden change things and, you know,

03:07things that come up in games where,

03:08hey, man, look, we got to play the next play.

03:11And so that's what we're trying to do.

03:12These guys, man, they work hard.

03:14They're trying to do it the way we're doing it.

03:16We want them to do it.

03:17And, you know, along the lines of coaching too,

03:19we've got to coach better.

03:20We've got to adjust better during a game

03:22and things like that.

03:23Bill, a big difference from the beginning of the season

03:26when you guys were performing really well

03:27to the last three weeks with the buy in the middle

03:30is turnovers have kind of become your Achilles heel.

03:33What's been the difference there?

03:34Is it just going against harder defenses

03:37or is it something that you guys

03:39have struggled with internally?

03:43Yeah, it's ridiculous.

03:44I mean, we can't, we cannot put the ball on the ground.

03:49We can't throw interceptions.

03:51You know, some interceptions are going to happen,

03:52you know, if a ball bounces the wrong way

03:54or something like that.

03:55But, you know, we have to be,

03:59when we carry the football, Courtney, for Boston College,

04:02when we handle the football,

04:03we're carrying the hopes and dreams of everybody

04:05in the school, in the team.

04:08And so like, we have to understand that.

04:10Like the possession of the ball,

04:11there's nothing more important than that.

04:14And I believe really strongly that if we,

04:17you know, take care of the ball better,

04:19then we'll be in position to win games.

04:21But we turn it over,

04:21we turn it over on Virginia Tech's five yard line.

04:24We're going in to score.

04:25You know, we can't do that.

04:26And we've emphasized that this week

04:28and hopefully it gets better.

04:30Hey, Billy, I know it's a pet peeve of mine,

04:33but it's my, you know, my own problem.

04:35However, it's obscene to me that Notre Dame

04:38is expected to be one of the 12 playoff teams.

04:41They lose at home to Northern Illinois,

04:43who's mediocre at best.

04:46Is there, I don't know, I mean, I guess it's just,

04:48you know, it's good for the sport, but have you,

04:51does it irk you as much as it irks me

04:53that every year Notre Dame finds itself in a conversation

04:57it doesn't deserve to be in?

05:00Something happened, you know, a long time ago

05:02when Notre Dame was allowed to be,

05:05you know, I get it, it's money.

05:06I'm not, I understand what happens

05:08when they sign their NBC TV contract

05:12years and years ago and they became their own entity, right?

05:14So like they were on their own.

05:16Like even in the ACC, they're not really in football.

05:18They're really not a part of the ACC.

05:20It's just the other sports.

05:22So I'm not smart enough to really understand

05:24how that all happened, but like, you know,

05:26just because they're Notre Dame

05:27and because they're on their own

05:29doesn't mean they're automatically qualified

05:31for certain things.

05:32And so I think like, and I have a lot of respect

05:35for Marcus Freeman and how he runs his program.

05:37I'm just talking about Notre Dame as a football program,

05:40you know, shouldn't they be in a conference?

05:42I don't know, you know, what do I know?

05:46Bill, you keep talking about how hard

05:47this team is working in practice.

05:50Would you say that your team is not soft?

05:55Our team's not soft.

05:56No, I love our team.

05:59Our team plays hard.

06:01That's the least of our problems.

06:03Our team has to learn how not to lose

06:08before we can learn how to win.

06:09Meaning like, you know, the question you asked before

06:11about, you know, we gotta take care of the ball.

06:12We gotta stop the run, you know,

06:14meaning we gotta be in our gap.

06:16We gotta be in the right gap.

06:17The coaching wise, we gotta make better adjustments.

06:19You know, we're all in this together.

06:21Everybody at Boston College is in it together.

06:23When we lose, we lose as a team.

06:24It's not one side of the ball loses,

06:26the other side of the ball wins.

06:28That's just not the way it is in football.

06:30And so we've talked a lot about this week,

06:32like, you know, a lot about that.

06:34You know, how we can come together,

06:35play complimentary football

06:37and play together as a team.

06:39But no, this is a tough football team.

06:41This team will play hard.

06:42I think every time I go out there before the game

06:45or even after the game, the opposing coach always says,

06:47man, you got a tough team.

06:48Well, that's good.

06:49I mean, it is good, but we gotta learn how to win

06:51and to stop, you know, losing games by making mistakes.

06:56But toughness is not our problem.

06:58Courtney's alluding to it,

06:59but Gerard Mayo may have stepped in it here or there

07:03a few times recently.

07:04If you, having been a first year head coach

07:08in the NFL, if you could only give,

07:09if you could only give one piece of advice to Gerard Mayo,

07:13what would that be?

07:15You know, first of all, Greg,

07:17I understand the question, I really do,

07:18but I'm not in the place to give advice to Gerard Mayo.

07:21I mean, I coached seven years in Houston.

07:24You know, I know Gerard, you know,

07:26I coached with Gerard for a year.

07:28I was on the staff when he was a player.

07:30You know, look, I think just generally speaking though,

07:33answering your question,

07:34I think it's really important for, you know,

07:37all younger coaches to understand,

07:40like it is very, very difficult to be a head coach.

07:42When you get into that seat and, you know,

07:46maybe you don't have a whole lot of experience,

07:48like it's just a different world, you know,

07:51to go from being a position coach

07:52to being the head football coach, you know, it's hard.

07:55And there's gonna be some learning experiences

07:59that take place.

07:59And, you know, to me, it's like all about

08:03keeping the team together,

08:04especially when you're in a situation.

08:06It's very difficult.

08:06I was there last year, we were terrible.

08:08I mean, it was hard, man.

08:10And we had a lot of good guys on the team,

08:12but, you know, there was just a brutal situation.

08:14And it's important to try to keep them together

08:17and keep them playing as good as they can

08:19and try to get them to improve every week.

08:20That's the hardest thing.

08:21But being a first year head coach

08:23in the National Football League is, you know,

08:26you're well compensated, like no doubt about it.

08:28Nobody's feeling sorry for you,

08:30but it's a very, very difficult job.

08:33Given how difficult the job is,

08:34were you surprised that Bill Belichick

08:36was so public in his critique of Jerron?

08:40Well, I think Bill, you know, Bill's,

08:42the one thing about Bill is, you know,

08:43he's a very honest guy.

08:44Like he's very, very smart.

08:45He's gonna tell you what he sees

08:47and that's what his role is right now.

08:49He's in the media.

08:51And, you know, I haven't talked to Bill

08:53in a long time since the summertime,

08:55but, you know, he's doing what he believes

08:57is right for his job, right?

08:59So he's in the media and he's,

09:01he's, you know, he's honest in his assessment

09:04of every team, you know, when I've listened to it.

09:06I haven't listened to it a whole lot,

09:07but, you know, it's not just the Patriots.

09:09I mean, I think he assesses every team

09:12the way he sees it.

09:13And, you know, that's what his role is in the media.

09:16Do you think you'll make the wedding guest list?

09:20The wedding?

09:20What's that?

09:22Do I think I'll make it?

09:23Yeah.

09:24No, no, I don't think I'll be on the wedding guest list.

09:27I'm not, but the thing of it is like,

09:30I'm not a big wedding guy.

09:31You know what I mean?

09:32Like, I don't, I'm not sure that I,

09:34I would politely probably decline the invitation anyways.

09:37Well, you're like Wiggy.

09:38Wiggy can't stand destination weddings.

09:40He doesn't want to spend to go to your wedding.

09:42Do you feel that same way?

09:44Yeah, I'm with Wiggy.

09:45Like, I'm not into weddings.

09:46Like, I don't, I'm not, you know,

09:48my favorite things to do are like, you know,

09:504th of July, you know, Christmas, Thanksgiving,

09:54but weddings themselves, like not a big, not a big wedding.

09:58Yeah.

09:58I don't want to waste my vacation

10:00going to your destination wedding

10:02at some place I might not want to go to.

10:03You just lost Courtney, by the way.

10:05It's her favorite thing.

10:06If she could have 70 of them, she'd have 70 weddings.

10:09It's her favorite thing in the world.

10:12My wife loves weddings.

10:13So like, I get it, but like, I don't,

10:15I'm not a big wedding guy.

10:17Bill O'Brien, it is always a pleasure.

10:19Go get them tomorrow night.

10:21I think Courtney's going tomorrow night.

10:22Courtney's going to be there tomorrow night

10:24and get that playlist ready.

10:27We will, we'll talk to you again next week.

10:29Yes, sir.

10:30Thank you guys.

10:31Appreciate it.

10:32There he is.

10:33The great Bill O'Brien.

10:33So they need some boss man D-Lo and Big X to plug

10:36at music for the alumni stadium.

10:39Yeah, he's great.

10:40Oh, why don't you send them a text message?

10:41Well, I mean, you know, I mean, he, he,

10:44my name came right out of his mouth,

10:45so I'd be happy to step in.

10:48I think, I think Billy-O's tired of DJ Father Lahey.

10:52Sean, they're going to pay you in meatballs

10:54and a cup, if that's okay.

10:55Honestly, I dig that.

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