There’s something fishy about the way the Patriots are conducting their head coaching search, according to Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer.
The Patriots are in the market for a new head coach because they fired the organization’s first black head coach, Jerod Mayo, hours after the Patriots’ victory over Buffalo on Sunday.
Mayo, who went 4-13, is the second non-interim Patriots head coach to be fired after just one season. The other, Rod Rust, went 1-15 in 1990.
According to the NFL’s Rooney Rule, teams must interview at least two external minority candidates for head coach openings.