Head Coach Jerod Mayo Discusses Overtime Loss to Titans on WEEI 11/4

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Greg Hill (0:30)

You get it to overtime, you don't come away with the win.

Jerod Mayo (0:33)

Yeah, I mean, that's disappointing. At the same time, I thought we, there were multiple situations that came up in the game, first half and second half that I thought we executed well on. Going into overtime, I felt good about our chances. Just didn't pull it out.

Greg Hill (0:49)

Drake Maye ends up being responsible arm and legs for 301 of your 315 total yards on offense.

I think he's your lead rusher for three out of four games. You feel like you got to find a way to get that run game going to help him out a little bit.

Jerod Mayo (1:06)

Yeah. My son last night, like dad, what's wrong with the run game?

For me, it always starts up front. We talk about the mentality and things like that. Us as coaches, we're in the solution business, and we just got to find out a way to get Ramandre and Gibby and Hasty, those guys an opportunity. Because we can say whatever we want. We couldn't get those guys started. In the first half, we were under one yard of carry, and the second half, we still were under one yard of carry. So we just had to do a better job.

Greg Hill (1:38)

When you sent Drake Maye the memo, did you bold that he needs to slide? Because I don't know if you got the message.

Jerod Mayo (1:45)

Look, this guy, he's a competitor. He's also a rookie and he's trying to make plays. He's trying to do what he thinks is best to help the team win and I appreciate that. At the same time, we have to make sure that he's protecting himself.

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Being a rookie though and being able to continue in the way in which he likes to play the game, him saying after the game, I'm not going to change the way in which I play, even though I went out into concussion protocol. Does that speak to him being young or is that just a guy who's going to play the game of football the way in which he wants to play it and not be worried about any type of injury or anything that could come his way?

Jerod Mayo (2:20)

He's a competitor. He's a competitor and I think as he continues to progress, he'll second guess some of those hits that he's taken. But at this time, he just wants to help the team win. I appreciate that.

SPEAKER_7 (2:31)

Jerod, one of the things that I noticed yesterday is that you were very upset about another penalty. You're like middle of the pack. Through the first four weeks of the season, you guys are in the top five.

What's going on with, it seems like, consistently just sloppy, stupid penalties? At one point, I could say that it was a point where you were upset. What do you think the issue is that you're still having these penalty issues?

Jerod Mayo (2:58)

Well, I don't necessarily agree with all the penalties that are called. Saying that for the NFL, I'm not criticizing the referee. All right.

Greg Hill (3:04)

You're right, Tom.

Jerod Mayo (3:06)

But what I will say, I thought, we talk about the referee crew the night before every game. We knew that this was a high penalty call in crew. The Titans had more penalties than we did. I would say, even on the Polk holding call, I thought that was a little bit soft, but they called it. Even the Polk not being set, like that's on the quarterback. And again, the quarterback has to make sure everyone's set. But those are the little things, the growing pains that we continue to go through. But we just have to be better.

SPEAKER_8 (3:37)

Jerod, the final play regulation, an unbelievable extension of the play by Drake Maye, and then the extra point.

What was the thought process of not going for two, and how was that executed? Is it you're saying on the splitter, we're going for the extra point? Is there a conversation while the drive's unfolding? Should you score? We have a two-point play ready to go. How did that all unfold?