We're a soft football team across the board, he said as part of an unprompted opening statement. Jerod Mayo clearly frustrated: We're a soft football team across the board.
Mayo took this job riding a wave of optimism with a franchise that badly needed change after nearly a quarter-century under Bill Belichick.
Mayo has brought with him plenty of departures from his predecessor and former mentor, but this news conference felt notable.
Yet Mayo felt the Patriots are in such dire, desperate straits that the best route was to call his team soft seven games into a rebuilding season.
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