Jerod Mayo Changing Patriots Culture for the Better?
Mayo culture change? Patriots OL Calvin Anderson says, "He puts an emphasis on relationship." "Makes it so much easier to buy in." Greg: "Did Bill not know everyone's name?" Thoughts on Anderson's comments?
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00:00Let's begin with your New England Patriots.
00:01Calvin Anderson spoke after practice yesterday and talked about the kind of culture that
00:07Gerard Mayo is creating and how maybe it's different than cultures of the past.
00:12He puts an emphasis on relationship.
00:14I think that helps the team culture.
00:15I don't know how other head coaches are, but Mayo walks around knowing his guys.
00:19So you walk around, you feel like you have a personal relationship with him.
00:22Makes it so much easier to buy in, obviously, when we're on the field.
00:25You can feel him when he's walking through.
00:26When you have a coach that prioritizes that relationship part, which gets lost in business,
00:31it brings you back to why we love to play this game, which is the team aspect of playing
00:34football.
00:35And so it's much easier to play as a team when you have that relationship part.
00:37He emphasizes that, which I think everybody is much better for.
00:41Okay.
00:43So did Bill not know everybody's name or?
00:47That cannot be.
00:48Bill Belichick knew our names.
00:50So unfortunately.
00:51Did he?
00:52Yes, he used it.
00:56Whenever he was upset, he would use our names.
00:58Did Bears have to remind him every time he walked in?
01:00No, I think I don't like to think that way, Sean.
01:02I think the angst with Bill towards Courtney was more Jordan based than anything else.
01:06But I, this stuff is fine and it's whatever.
01:12None of this matters if the team stinks.
01:15Like Pete Carroll, was there ever a bigger rah-rah guy than Pete Carroll who came in
01:21and it, right?
01:22I mean, he was like a cheerleader walking around, but he got fired because the team
01:24wasn't good.
01:26Isn't it what today's player wants?
01:28It's also what Robert Kraft used to talk to Arthur Blank about how nobody knew Bill.
01:34Bill was standoffish.
01:35Like I think that the new generation requires some touchy feely from their, even their football
01:42coach.
01:43Everywhere you mean, and not only in football, but in every workplace.
01:46And is it more important to today's young football player to win a Superbowl or to be
01:54playing in a place where the vibe is great and there's no pressure.
02:00It is.
02:01Yeah.
02:02Because look at how wild is that?
02:04I don't know.
02:05But I wish we were here every day, but specifically on this topic, because when we went to Georgia,
02:11he wasn't the number one recruit, but he was, you know, a division one scholarship athlete
02:14in the sec.
02:16In that generation, even when I was in school, there wasn't the NIL, there wasn't this like
02:22insane Courtney.
02:23Would you agree?
02:24Like the last 10 years, every facility has been like one upping each other.
02:28Like the LSU one, everybody's got like a game system and Clemson has like a slide in the
02:33middle of it.
02:34It's nonsense.
02:35It's like things that the athletes, a celebrity in college has grown up, grown, grown exponentially.
02:43And they have been, now these guys are coming into the league with NIL deals.
02:47So there's not the ability, the hard ass approach really is something that is foreign to the
02:52vast majority of these guys.
02:53I mean, my guess is that Bill Belichick knew everybody's name and it was the way in which
02:59he would express those names.
03:02That was bothersome to somebody like Calvin Anderson, as opposed to the way Gerard Mayo
03:08is saying his name.
03:09He may have given them a bit of a nickname at times.
03:11Yes.
03:12Or it may have been in a louder voice or something, and we know how anxious that can make some.
03:18I would also say for Calvin Anderson and others to go listen to people like Julian
03:22Edelman, Rob Gronkowski, or Tom, people that had issues with Bill when they played for
03:27him.
03:28But overwhelmingly, the people that have stopped playing for Bill express deep gratitude for
03:34how he coached because it was hard in the moment, but it brought the best out of them.
03:39This is Tony from Rhode Island.
03:41What's up, Tony?
03:42Hey guys, how you guys doing this morning?
03:45What's going on?
03:47I just wanted to give Courtney her flowers.
03:50You know, you, Greg, you're a triple OG, you're a veteran, so is Curtis.
03:55And at first, I wasn't a huge fan of Courtney, but I just want to say that she won't be over.
04:01She's held it on her own and her to keep doing her thing.
04:05You know what I'm saying?
04:08She's been there and I just want to give her a little bit of advice.
04:11Don't let the trolls get to you because I used to be a troll and deep down inside all
04:17the people that troll you, they just, they just haven't admitted yet, but they actually
04:20like you.
04:21They love you.
04:22And the show would not be the same without you.
04:25She would prefer actual flowers, not the, not the virtual flowers, but thank you, Tony.
04:29It's like my whole family's cult.
04:31Your turn, dad.
04:33All right.
04:34What's next, Sean?
04:35Next, we'll stay with the Patriots here.
04:37After camp yesterday, Keyon White actually spoke with Gresh and Fourier and Gresh asked
04:43a long-winded question, but Keyon's answers were the best part of this.
04:46What were some of the D-line points of emphasis that you tried to work on this off season?
04:53Everybody wants to get better, but were there a couple of things in particular that you
04:56really honed in on?
04:58Definitely.
04:59So nothing physically.
05:00I think I've shown that I can play out here physically, but for more so, just the awareness
05:05and mental and being able to anticipate blocks, understand offenses and understand what they're
05:10trying to do based off of sets, alignments and things like that.
05:14So were you in the simulator or was this all kind of mental stuff, film watching?
05:18No, he's just kind of like lock yourself in a dark room and just learn the s**t, so.
05:23Lock yourself.
05:24Do they have any dark rooms in this, in the stadium right now where you can do that?
05:27Yeah, for sure.
05:28Okay.
05:29All right, good.
05:30They got the Belichick dungeon for sure.
05:31Oh, wait a minute.
05:32Geez.
05:33He brought up Bill Belichick.
05:34So wait, it's the Bill Belichick dungeon.
05:36So is he conducting himself in the way that Bill taught him how to conduct himself in
05:40the off season to get ready?
05:42Seems like he might be.
05:43Wow.
05:44Okay.
05:45But all of these, he hasn't been told that you can't mention Bill's name down there yet.
05:49Gerard Mayo entire football life is Belichick.
05:53He was drafted by Belichick, played for Belichick, came out of the private sector at Belichick's
05:58request to be a coach.
06:00I mean, it would be odd if there weren't elements.
06:03Like the people that are trying to hate on Mayo, which I would say you're not, but Gresh
06:09definitely are in a way going to be like, if Mayo's successful, it's good for Bill Belichick
06:15in a way.
06:16It's finally a branch that's been successful off his coaching career.
06:19I don't think anybody's hating on Mayo.
06:21I just think the jury is out on whether that approach is going to work here with this Patriots
06:28team.
06:29But I think the jury's out.
06:30I don't think the jury that Bill can't coach this team successfully the way this team is
06:33currently coached his team successfully for 20 plus years, the most successful ever to
06:38do it.
06:39But he hasn't been successful with this, this roster as it was composed for five years.
06:47He was, he made the playoffs three years ago.
06:49I mean, that's in a lot of five years, huh?
06:53Once in five years.
06:54Yeah.
06:55I mean, yes.
06:56I mean, you can't sustained.
06:57Did you expect that they were going to win a Superbowl every single season?
07:00No, but is it too much to expect to be in the playoffs more consistently than 20%?
07:06When do you think Gerard Mayo wins a Superbowl?
07:08What's your guess?
07:09Uh, because of Drake may probably 2027.
07:12Okay.
07:13But I love that bold prediction than the coach.
07:19So three years from now, you have this team winning the three, four years, 27, 28, something
07:23like that.
07:24Okay.
07:25So last year at this time, almost exactly.
07:27Bill Belichick told me that the Rams and the bucks sold their souls with spending.
07:33And that that's why the Patriots had to have this long sustained rebuild.
07:38And then the bucks won a playoff game.
07:41The Rams made the playoffs like the P bill Belichick is the greatest coach of all time.
07:46But there, I know that he can't succeed with this team.
07:50He's, we've had, this would be the fifth year.
07:53They have gotten progressively worse the last two and for whatever reason, it just
07:58wasn't working.
07:59Gerard Mayo may fail too.
08:00I have no idea, but if he does, he'll just be what Bill Belichick was at the end.