Did the Patriots do former HC Jerod Mayo "dirty"? CB Christian Gonzalez says so

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Did the Patriots do former HC Jerod Mayo "dirty"? CB Christian Gonzalez says so. Do you agree with Gonzalez? #NFL

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00:00Over to football here, Greg. Christian Gonzalez appeared on the Frat Rules podcast,

00:05um, and, uh, he was asked about Gerard Mayo, interestingly enough,

00:10and had this to say about his former coach.

00:13Did you like him as a coach?

00:14I did.

00:15Yeah, he was a good coach.

00:15I think they did him a little dirty, giving him only one year.

00:18But, you know, that's the front office's responsibility. You just ball.

00:24Yeah, we're gonna see what Braves do.

00:26You still got the same DC up there?

00:28No, the whole new coaching change.

00:29It's a whole, they did in their clean house.

00:32And then when Bill left, they did the same thing? Or it was?

00:34No, when Bill left, it was, it was basically the same staff, just without Bill.

00:40Okay, so they did him dirty. They did Gerard Mayo dirty. I mean.

00:47That they did.

00:48Yeah.

00:48I agree with them.

00:49Is it a good thing, though, for these guys when they are going on these podcasts and saying

00:55the first thing that pops into their head, or is it a bad thing?

00:58But who didn't think that he got done dirty?

01:00I think, I mean, I, I.

01:03Beside you.

01:04Okay, besides me, I guess not a lot of people.

01:06Right, so everybody like, so him saying that is not like a shocking revelation.

01:12Do you think Gerard Mayo expected that he was going to be an extraordinary head coach in the NFL?

01:17I don't know.

01:17Not in the first year.

01:18Yeah, not in the first year. I think he probably was going to take his lumps.

01:21But do you think he expected that they weren't going to give him anything

01:24when it came to personnel?

01:26I don't think that they.

01:27Or staff.

01:28I don't think that they expected.

01:30That's a good point, Curtis.

01:31I don't think that they expected it was going to be the dumpster fire that it ended up being.

01:37How do they not expect that? When Curtis makes another great point,

01:42you went out and got Vrabel and then said, you know what, at the offense coordinator,

01:47let's bring back Josh McDaniels. Josh McDaniels was hanging around all over

01:51Massachusetts last year. Why didn't you bring him in?

01:53Do you think that they expected that with Gerard Mayo as the head coach,

01:57there were going to be D list wide receivers declaring that they had the best hands in the NFL

02:05publicly and and questioning why the offense was being run the way the offense was being run?

02:11Do you think that they thought they were going to have guys that were in jolly old England

02:16out enjoying too much shepherd's pie at 1 a.m. and sick?

02:21Yeah, but Greg, Gerard Mayo's first practice basically was on the fields in front of the fan

02:28base, and they allow Matthew Judon to dress him down in front of everyone. Something unlike the

02:34Devers comments, that was predictable. They allowed it or he allowed it.

02:40What? Matthew Judon got in his face and was screaming out.

02:43Bill Belichick would have sent them home and shipped them off the next day.

02:48That's Bill Belichick.

02:49That's Gerard Mayo. If you're going to be a head coach in the NFL,

02:54you shouldn't need to have your hand held.

02:56Do you think Gerard Mayo thought going into it that they weren't going to add any playmakers

03:02to the offense or they were just going to ride with a bunch of rookies?

03:05And he thought they were going to spend a lot of money. I also think it's crazy

03:08if you take into consideration that a lot of reports were that Kraft wanted Rabel

03:13two years ago and that there was talk about that. Then they bring in Mayo. They almost give

03:17Rabel on a silver platter the success that you would want in your first year head coach.

03:26Gerard Mayo having such a terrible season last year, now you bring in Mike Rabel.

03:30There's only one way to go when it's up.

03:32Do you think that Gerard Mayo thought going into it goes,

03:35oh, if Drake May is the better guy and we want to start him,

03:38that I'm going to have to fight an uphill battle to start him in week one?

03:42I don't believe that the decision to fire him after one year had much to do with the record

03:48at all. I think it had everything to do with all of the off field stuff that went on and the lack

03:56of control that he had over the locker room and the players. And then the final straw was that

04:03the guy went out and denied us the opportunity to have the number one pick, which I will never

04:08forgive him for. Do you think they set him up for success though? I mean, I, uh, I set him up

04:14for success. Like, I mean, he's gonna, he wants to be a head coach in the NFL. He needs to set

04:18himself up for success, but how can you set yourself up when they're not giving you the

04:21coaching staff or they're not allowing, they gave him the job without, with virtually no experience.

04:27Right. That's right. That's not doing somebody 30 that's doing somebody a favor.

04:32If you give someone a job, Greg, if you give someone a job without experience,

04:37then you do what they did with the Rams and you bring in Wade Phillips. You bring in people who

04:41I think have a big role. I've never been in the NFL, never played in Rivers. We were good,

04:45but not quite that, that would, the coordinators play a role in keeping guys in line. They do the

04:51job of the head coach. So the head coach doesn't have to be everywhere. They gave Gerard Mayo,

04:57the same roster. Basically they had the year before and they precluded him from playing the

05:03most important player from week one, because the organization said it was a slow play and

05:09Mayo bought in because he was told from day one that this was a long-term plan, that it was a

05:15year early and that Robert Kraft trusted him completely. And then they take the legs out

05:21from under him. The second they start losing, there's whispers about Mayo and over the summer

05:25and Bedard reporting this and Robert Kraft at no point empowered him. I don't think Gerard Mayo

05:30with everything working is a great coach. I'm not saying he's, you know, Vince Lombardi. I'm just

05:36saying that it is, I don't think you can argue that the Patriots did them dirty last year. I

05:39just don't think it's an arguable point. Here's your Bentley with no wheels.

05:47So Christian Gonzalez says that the Patriots did Gerard Mayo dirty. And what do you say? We'll see

05:54how Vrabes does. That's a good way to start things off with the new boss. Vrabes.

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