We had eight openings for about 24 hours. Now we’re back down to seven …
• Let’s start with this—the hire of Jerod Mayo as coach of the New England Patriots is, in my opinion, the right one for a franchise that hasn’t had a new coach in a generation.
If I were them, I’d have gone through a search, even a nominal one. The opportunity to gather information from other teams through such a process, after not swimming in those waters for a quarter century, was a golden one. Plus, there’s always the chance that someone would really move you, the same way Mike Tomlin moved the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2007 to diverge from the expectation that they’d just hire offensive coordinator Ken Whisenhunt or assistant head coach Russ Grimm to replace Bill Cowher.
