{"id":284640,"date":"2025-08-13T11:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/284640\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T11:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:18:11","slug":"nfl-coachs-damning-vince-lombardi-statement-puts-jerod-mayo-in-the-crosshairs-for-patriots-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/284640\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Coach\u2019s Damning Vince Lombardi Statement Puts Jerod Mayo in the Crosshairs for Patriots\u2019\u00a0Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018The Athletic\u2019 returned with its yearly Quarterback Tiers. As many as 50 NFL coaches and executives shared their evaluations about various QBs and placed them in either Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3, Tier 4, or Tier 5. Voters remained anonymous for the survey as they placed Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, and Matthew Stafford in Tier 1. And as we scrolled further, we noticed that the Patriots<\/a>\u2018 Drake Maye was placed in Tier 3; he was #22 on the lengthy list. But that wasn\u2019t the surprising factor.<\/p>\n

Instead, an anonymous offensive coordinator said things that no New England player would like to hear, despite everything that transpired last season. \u201cHis [Maye] team was so bad. Vince Lombardi couldn\u2019t have gotten that team any more wins than they got.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaye has promise. There is talent. There is ability. I think he looked very natural at the position,\u201d said the OC, as shared by The Athletic<\/a>. Indeed, last season was almost forgettable. Their 4-13 record was the worst since 1992. But Drake Maye\u2019s development was an exception. It was the story of the season; that is, if one leaves out parts where fans were calling for then-HC Jerod Mayo to be fired\u2026 or how the stadiums would stay half-empty.<\/p>\n

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In fact, a coach told \u2018The Athletic\u2019 just that: \u201cDrake turned the ball over a lot, he got injured and had a concussion\u2026 But it was tough what they were doing offensively under Jerod Mayo.\u201d The offense was historically bad: By mid-October, they barely scored more than 20 points in each game, and they were averaging 119 net passing yards per game. It was by far the worst in the league.<\/p>\n

The old Patriots team, the one that Bill Belichick personified, was dead.<\/p>\n

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But here\u2019s a positive: An anonymous offensive coach said, \u201c(Maye) is a big athlete that has good vision, can push the ball up the field, he can run, I think he\u2019s coachable. Josh (McDaniels) does a good job of eliminating negative plays with a quarterback, so I think that will help him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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However, a defensive coach, whose team faced Maye, pushed back against the excitement. He said, \u201cI remember coming out of our game, and people were like, \u2018Oh, we saw the future,\u2019 and I\u2019m like, \u2018I don\u2019t know about that; he made about three throws\u2019 \u2026 Let\u2019s not Winston Wolf it yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

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But now, with Mike Vrabel as the HC, fans hope he can bring back the Bill Belichick nostalgia. After all, he played for Belichick, and the legendary coach has acknowledged Vrabel\u2019s leadership, commitment, and situational awareness. One can only hope that the 16th HC in the team\u2019s history, along with a young QB who showed good development, can flip the script this season.<\/p>\n

Perhaps some good wins for the team and brilliant plays can push QB Maye to Tier 2 next year. What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018The Athletic\u2019 returned with its yearly Quarterback Tiers. As many as 50 NFL coaches and executives shared their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[22289,3077,3068,6347,3057,4058,31620,7,10243,9353,9354,36571,10241,1167,249,2326,2094,6,1973,4018,31621,208,3078,4016,21991,9355,11345,3071,1984,4017,7956,6345,3052,25460],"class_list":{"0":"post-284640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-1u0026amp1","9":"tag-3077","10":"tag-am","11":"tag-auf","12":"tag-der","13":"tag-dez","14":"tag-englands","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-gegen","17":"tag-kopf","18":"tag-kutsche","19":"tag-massachussetts","20":"tag-neuen","21":"tag-new-england","22":"tag-new-england-patriots","23":"tag-newengland","24":"tag-newenglandpatriots","25":"tag-nfl","26":"tag-npstrans","27":"tag-nur","28":"tag-patrioten","29":"tag-patriots","30":"tag-quer","31":"tag-redaktionelle","32":"tag-rueckrunde","33":"tag-schaut","34":"tag-sidelines","35":"tag-stadion","36":"tag-toppic","37":"tag-verwendung","38":"tag-von","39":"tag-wahrend","40":"tag-x0x","41":"tag-zweite"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115021186083658012","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}