It took a little over an hour after the Patriots’ 2024 season ended for the team to announce it had fired head coach Jerod Mayo.
Such a decisive move by Robert Kraft and the Patriots’ top brass signaled that the team’s decision was made up well before New England squandered a shot at the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NFL Draft by beating the Bills in Week 18.
But could Mayo have potentially saved his job with a stronger showing earlier in December?
According to a new feature from Andrew Callahan and Doug Kyed of the Boston Herald, the jury on New England’s head coach was seemingly still out entering the final stretch of the 2024 campaign.