Live from Gillette Stadium! Mego joins! Was the Chargers loss the worst of the year? Could Mayo be one-and-done?
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00:00But when you look at this like Patriots football team, I was in the mindset. There's
00:06No way that Mayo gets fired
00:09but now I
00:10Would not be shocked like I I would not be shocked like that was the biggest thing for me is like that is no way
00:16They're gonna fire Mayo crafts not gonna do that
00:19And it's like last week against Buffalo you go to Buffalo. You have a very hard-fought game
00:26You lose a game that you had an opportunity to win against a Buffalo football team. That's we know it is really good
00:34and then a week later at home
00:39You basically get the doors blown off for you horrible by the charges who are a good football team
00:45But they're no Buffalo Bill. No, they're not and now I'm just like
00:50You know and I know there was a whole bunch of reports on how may you know?
00:54The team had to do on the mail these last couple of weeks
00:56But I would not be shocked if if it was one and done for Mayo
01:00I especially after the way that charges game played out. That was
01:05Horrendous. It was to me the epitome of
01:09One side and it's not yours is a professional operation
01:13Like they're not a great team the Chargers aren't a great time, but they have good coaching, right?
01:17They have they have seemingly a program that they built just in one offseason right under Jim Harbaugh
01:23And they have pieces that make sense. They're not a great team. They're not Buffalo
01:28They're probably not even like top quarter of the league
01:31But they made you look like you're in a complete you should be relegated like you should take into a JV League
01:38I
01:39Have heard a lot of folks say that the disaster Saturday was the worst loss of the season
01:44And I have some other contenders that I want you to consider
01:46So I throw these out to you
01:48Tell me where you think that these rank if you think that Saturday was worse than these first 124 to 3 loss to the Jets
01:55On Thursday night football. It's your only primetime game and you cough it up
01:59And now we see how bad Aaron Rodgers actually is. Uh-huh in his advanced age. Is that worse than this one? No
02:06Okay, I'm gonna keep it moving
02:083216 loss to the Jaguars in London
02:10That's again a standalone game in London
02:13If you remember the Jaguars had lost in London the week before right everybody thought their coach was getting fired
02:18There was talk about how the team had no culture and then they hang around in London together
02:23And then they come in and blow doors on you 32 16
02:26No, because wasn't that like early Drake May like what's that? It's first game. Maybe he set up a second game
02:32Yeah, so, you know, I know and I think he played pretty well in that game
02:36I mean, I was a bad loss, but no, okay in London and don't really count it
02:42More recent 130 to 17 loss to the Cardinals coming off the by that was just two weeks ago
02:47Mm-hmm, but they have the very late by in the season and then they come out totally uninspired and after that you get probably the
02:54Most inflammatory comment from to Rod Mayo postgame when he's asked. Hey, why don't you have Drake May running the sneak?
03:00Why don't you have a right and he says you said it not me, right?
03:04Everybody can everybody sees Drake can run I'm paraphrasing. He says you said it not me. No because that was in, Arizona
03:10Okay, so, you know is it it makes that big of a difference away I think when you look at it it does especially
03:18When I get you coming off a bye at that point in time, Arizona was chasing a playoff spot
03:26But you played well against Buffalo you're at home to like you said a good Chargers football team
03:33you know how bars got a buy-in and there's a good culture there and you in
03:38In Arizona, I don't know if I would say I saw guys
03:43quitting
03:44But yesterday it was like it was just horrible. It looked like guys were quitting and to do that at home
03:52Like I said, especially coming off a game a game like Buffalo where you would have a little bit more confidence
03:58You know playing as a former player when you like have those games where you play pretty well against a really really good football team
04:07It's always like oh, okay, we're better than you know
04:10What our record says we are and then the next week you're looking at it like they're a good football team
04:15But if we could at least play the way we played against Buffalo
04:18We have a chance to win this football game and you just you you quit your team look on
04:24Uninspired then there's the whole you know stuff before the game and then guys were saying things like leading up so much
04:31I mean, I'm gonna say it before we get to a mayo later in the show
04:35Like 90% of the show is reacting to crazy stuff that was said after the game crazy stuff
04:41That was said before the game on other broadcasts or the pregame show and then crazy stuff that was said in the locker room
04:47After the game, I don't mean crazy because like guys are talking inappropriately
04:51I mean crazy because it gives you a real glimpse into how much dysfunction there was and wiki
04:56I was here Saturday covering the game for wei comm
04:59It was unrecognizable to me compared to I was there at the end of the of the
05:05Brady Dynasty and
05:07comparing this to
05:102016
05:112017 and December sitting in the stadium was depressing the amount of empty seats
05:17the complete lack of energy the most juice that that whole building got other than the
05:2436-yard touchdown connection between Drake May and the Mario Douglas. Oh, which is really just like a wild pop fly ball
05:31It was a good
05:34But was basically when Drake came back from his head injury
05:38Right from being evaluated for a concussion and trots back out on the field which props to him, right?
05:44He's yeah, you know a tough kid. No doubt. He goes and runs right after that
05:48Yeah, and but at the same time you're like, this is awful
05:52This isn't even that great of a team that they're right and it was like and like even if you go back and you compare
05:58It to last year how they finished like which was an awful year
06:00I think the biggest thing that in and and I like I get billet, you know bill has
06:09way more of a resume than what Mayo has but I think the biggest thing for me is
06:16More because good teams in my opinion. It's really about
06:23Good culture first, right?
06:25and so when I look at even last year when they weren't doing well and
06:31They stunk last year
06:33The culture was different and I get it was Belichick
06:38But the culture this year
06:42That to me is the biggest thing like I thought that the culture was gonna be a little bit not like
06:49Mayo was a little bit more
06:52Player friendly just because of his personality and but still he'd be able to create a good culture, right?
06:58You could you see that from guys that have like, you know
07:01A good personality that a player friendly and that have you know
07:04whether it's a Dan Campbell or Sean McVeigh that can still create this good culture and be more of like that type of
07:12You know fun, you know, and I'm making air quotes like fun type of atmosphere. Well like positive
07:19You know, I thought it was gonna be this contagious
07:22Positivity right here where hey, everybody thinks that we don't have that much talent and everybody underrates us
07:28But by the end of year, we're gonna be this feisty group, right?
07:31That believes in ourselves and each other so much and we're gonna be so tough that nobody wants to see us instead
07:37It's like everybody's looking at each other being like, oh, right. When can we get out of here? It's awful
07:43Yeah, and that and that's the thing that I'm that's the thing that really disappoints me because I
07:49That it's really about culture like the X's and O's that kind of falls into place after that
07:54But if you don't have great culture
07:56It just it won't matter what your X's and O's are because you'll see guys that are like, you know
08:01Not giving it max effort. You'll see guys that are having
08:04Issues, you know and you know where you see a lot of culture stuff is in college football
08:09Like you see a lot of like, you know, you got my name
08:11That's why Harbaugh was able to go like immediately from Michigan to LA and establish what he well
08:16But I remember Harbaugh was a pro guy, right?
08:19So he understood the pro but you see a lot of the like culture falling apart in college is what I'm saying
08:24You got guys on Miami and Miami game fighting on the sidelines on the same team. You got quitting
08:30Yeah, you got your quarterback quitting
08:31so you see a lot of college football programs that the head coach doesn't have a good culture there and it bleeds off into a
08:40Football team and you'll see kind of how it play out
08:44Where you know, we're for the most part in the NFL
08:48You don't see that as much but when you do have like a very shaky culture
08:53You get what you're getting with the Patriots and guys are saying stuff before the game guys are saying stuff after the game
09:00You know, there's like this this quitting guys. And so that's the thing that I didn't expect when
09:07Mayo became the head coach is that I thought but then again
09:12I probably I probably should have been looked at it going. Well, the first issue that we saw was with
09:21Was with Matt Jude on and gone
09:24I think this you started before that if you want to look at like how
09:28Functional how professional the operation was gonna be I think it started when he came on to this program
09:35and said we're gonna burn some cash and right being super positive and enthusiastic and we were all like
09:41Yeah, let's go. This is what we want
09:44We're we're all about it and immediately has to walk that back because it seems not to be in conjunction
09:49With what the front office right slash ownership who knows what everybody else?
09:54Remember that was him really putting his foot in his mouth
09:56so that was like a fan all season right but when I say the culture pot the the kind of the relationship between
10:03Coaches players like that part of it where you don't think that that plays into it. No
10:07No, I'm not saying it doesn't play into it
10:09but what I'm saying is like where I really saw it is how do you handle players and
10:15Certain situations to establish the culture of your organization, right?
10:19Right, you could put your foot in your mouth and say some things but you still hey
10:23This is the way our culture is gonna be ran and I think maybe first part of it and you know
10:28Maybe we could probably look think about what training camp had to play with her
10:32But the way the whole Matthew Jude on thing went down where it's like this on the field back and forth
10:38He's sitting on the thing. He's not like that to me is where you kind of look and you go damn
10:45He if he would have nipped it in the bud it would have been like
10:48where was the culture like then gonna be created and I think that's kind of like the
10:54Like what we're seeing now with all the dysfunction
10:58Around what's going on on the field and like, you know with some of these things that these players are saying
11:04That's what I mean by like the culture Mayo putting his foot in his mouth that
11:07That started day one when you know, like you said burn some cash and cash ready to burn some cash
11:14Well, I think it was like when he talked about drafting a quarterback
11:17I think people were upset that he said that so, you know, I think been the only constant through the season
11:23Yeah, I'm putting but the culture part is like that. I thought even though he put his foot as well
11:28I thought I thought he could still create a better culture than what we're seeing now