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.