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Jerod Mayo aims to ‘surround himself with good people’ as Patriots head coach

Jerod Mayo was officially introduced as the New England Patriots head coach Wednesday afternoon at Gillette Stadium.

As the new head coach now gets to work — an evaluation process in which he hopes to “plant the seeds” of the next dynasty — he will start the process of putting together his coaching staff.

The main criteria: collecting a group of good people.

“One thing I learned from Coach [Bill Belichick] and from [Robert Kraft] is about just surrounding yourself with good people, surrounding yourself with good people,” Mayo said. “As far as our staff and things like that, we’re going to be good.