FOXBOROUGH — Bill Belichick clearly has a bone to pick with Jerod Mayo and the Patriots are getting fired in January.
And after Mayo opened himself up to criticism by initially labeling the Patriots as a “soft” team on Sunday, Belichick has taken several opportunities to call out New England’s new head coach and defend his former players.
“I’m kind of hurt for those guys because to call them soft — they’re not soft, they were the best team in the league last year against the run,” Belichick said of his former players Monday on ESPN’s “The Pat McAfee Show”.