Patriots coach Jerod Mayo clarified his comments about the Patriots being a soft football team on Monday.
The message he meant to get across, he said, is that they were playing soft in the moment and that they have the ability to change that through hard work and continuous improvement. He pointed to the team’s inability to run the ball, stop the run, and cover kicks as reasons for saying that they played soft in Sunday’s 32-16 loss to Jacksonville at London.
He also said, during his radio appearance on WEEI, that the team had played soft at times last year under Bill Belichick.