Media or anyone go before we go, go wild
you hated you, you wanted them to stick with
Gerard Mayo, yes, coach, you know what
I like continuity. I don't like we've been rebuilding
since Tom Brady left. Tom Brady left a long
time ago. Tom Brady has left so long ago
, he won the Super Bowl, played for a
little bit longer, and then became a broadcaster on
Fox, and he's almost done with his first year
. Meanwhile, we're still rebuilding. We're like an
outfit you you don't get, get dressed in the
morning. Nothing else works, and you look around
and you're still not dressed and there's clothes everywhere because
it was Belichick and Brady McDaniels. That worked.
That worked for a decade plus and then it's like
, now, let's put in Cam. No,
Cam doesn't work, put in Mac. OK,
that worked. We got to the playoffs. That
doesn't work on McDaniel's put in Matt Patricia. OK
, that doesn't work. Take out Mac, put
in Zappy, put in Bill O'Brien. Matt Patricia
. Now let's take Belichick out. Let's put Mayo
and Jacoby in. Jacoby doesn't work. Let's put
Drake May in. Turns out Gerard Mayo doesn't work
. Let's lose Van Pelt. He's not gonna work
. The defense coordinator is not gonna work. Let's
bring in Rael. Now what happens if Rael,
if Rael's the guy, does not work because it
doesn't seem like we've been making decision to decision.
It hasn't worked. If Rael doesn't work, you
know where I'm, it's my worst nightmare. It's
my worst. It keeps me up at night.
That Drake May becomes the prince. All of a
sudden you're cycling through coach after coach after coach.
The ground's always moving underneath you and you don't develop
and you constantly search. And the final thing.
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. This constant
Need to go back to the glory days of the
Patriots, which I am very guilty of. It's
like we got to get Rael. He knows the
Patriots way. I mean, Gerard Mayo also played
defense on the Patriots who won a Super Bowl.
He didn't have the experience, but the nostalgia poll
is what is making the decisions here. We're not
even doing we're not doing real interviews. We're not
doing, we are doing real interviews. We're not
doing an interview, but yeah, it's just we're
going to. We call Ben Johnson. Hey,
do you want to coach? No, OK,
I don't think it's just the nostalgia pill, and
I, I think the mistake was made last year
when they, when they hired Gerard because all Gerard
as a player or coach had known was that one
system was Bill's system, and you said this day
one, right. There was no experience outside of
that system, so you move on from Bill and
you're really just getting a different version of Bill.
And where the value with Mike Rael is is Mike
wasn't a first-time head coach. You get all that
learning out of the way. Mike had been in
New England, so he does understand what the Patriot
way is, but then he had been at Ohio
State, then he went to Houston, and then
he went to Tennessee. So he had all these
other influences, and he never coached under Bill.
People have that like not you don't have that wrong
in people's minds they're like, oh, it's Belichick's
coaching tree. It's not like it just he was
just, he experienced it, so he, he
has that experience as a player. He understands.
The history he understands the people, so you get
that value, but you get all the value of
the experiences that he's had and influences that he had
outside of that system and you don't get a first-time
head coach. So I think, I think that's
where the mistake was. Now if Mike doesn't come
there to me letting Gerard is a mistake because they
expect a guy to be, you know, outstanding
his first year. I mean, I know it
happens, you know, sporadically, but it does
take some time.