Head Coach Jerod Mayo Joins WEEI's Patriots Monday to Discuss the Win Over the Bengals

Jerod Mayo (0:00)

No, thank you.

Greg Hill (0:01)

The Mayo era begins with a win.

Jerod Mayo (0:04)

Yeah, I was pretty pumped for the guys. It's really not about me. I told them at the end of the game, I'm only as good as those guys are, and they went out there and executed it, and all the praise and all that stuff goes to those guys, and for me, it's about changing the page and getting ready for Seattle.

Greg Hill (0:22)

I feel like I owe you a bit of an apology.

Jerod Mayo (0:24)

You don't owe me, if you guys say, I don't listen to any, like seriously, I do not, I'm in a bubble, I'm in a bubble, I don't listen to anything good or bad as far as the media is concerned.

Greg Hill (0:36)

I mean, I was mocking you on the virtual, I mean, it seems like the coaching style, the guys love it.

Jerod Mayo (0:42)

No, for me, it's okay. I'm going to do it my way, I'm going to do it my way, and I feel like at some point in time, like I have to trust that I have the right staff around the players, and those guys are going to go out and perform, and they did. So I'm excited for them once again. Like, yeah, I'm good. This is what I tell people all the time. I try to be very truthful because I was a top 10 pick in 2008 I'm okay.

Greg Hill (1:08)

Are you planning on saying something before every game to Jacoby Brissette that makes him cry?

Jerod Mayo (1:13)

I always, I always, I feel like someone who has the ball in his hands every play, I need to make sure we're on the same page. And he went out there and displayed a lot of things, like, you know, he's a tough guy, is a tough guy that it really doesn't matter. And I talk about pulling the nose up on the plane, and he did that a few times and actually made some plays with his legs, which is surprising. He's like probably the slowest black quarterback in the league. No, no.

SPEAKER_4 (1:42)

We talked about one slower than him though. We talked about, but Jerod, this is an interesting point because you talked about for the players, right?

SPEAKER_3 (1:51)

I thought you meant being slow.

Greg Hill (1:52)

No, no.

SPEAKER_4 (1:55)

When did you realize or when did you maybe, because it's all about buying in to what the coach is trying to put out there, buying into the culture. When did you realize that this team was buying in to what you were saying?

Jerod Mayo (2:10)

It's hard to really pinpoint when that moment happened. You know, we give these guys targets every week. And, you know, as a coaching staff, we try to say, look, if we get these three things done, we'll be OK.

But I will say, look, it's one game. And so I'm not saying to pump the breaks or well, I am saying to pump the breaks. It's one game. And until we continue to win and continue to go out there and play football the way that we know how to play football, it's we'll see what happens.

Greg Hill (2:38)

I mean, you talked a lot in training camp about specifically being able to run the ball and control the line of scrimmage.

Jerod Mayo (2:45)

I said it. I said it before this game.

And I tell the players, I don't care if you feel like I'm giving out game plan secrets or anything like that. I really don't. I'm telling you, we're going to run the ball. You got to stop us at some point in time. You got to stop us. And I tell the players too, if you want to go out there and talk noise and say how great you are, I'm good with that. But you better be ready to go out there and prove it each and every week. And I think the guy is buying it.

Greg Hill (3:15)

And we had Boomer Syason was just on with us.

Jerod Mayo (3:18)

Love Boomer.

Greg Hill (3:19)

And Boomer is talking about Ramondre Stevenson, running the ball 25 times. Can he do that all season long if that's what this team is going to be?

Jerod Mayo (3:30)

One thing I'll say about Ramondre, and I've told him this, so when you guys talk to him, you should ask him. But I think he's one of the best backs in the league. I just don't think he gets the appreciation. I don't think he gets the hype of some of these other backs. He's one of these guys that always falls forward for four or five yards. At the end of the game there, he was a little bit tired and he wanted to stay in the game. I was just like, this is the start of something special going forward.