Jerod Mayo pushed his football team hard throughout the summer. The work stuck with his players late in New England’s upset victory over the Cincinnati Bengals.
“In the fourth quarter, I heard guys on the sidelines saying, ‘take them to the hill,’” Mayo shared. “At the end of the training camp, we would go over to the hill and those guys would run. That’s what you have to do. I was so excited, even just hearing that from the players. It meant a lot.”
The Patriots’ training camp was one of the most grueling in recent memory.