FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Jerod Mayo will be a first-time head coach, and the youngest in the NFL.
He’ll also be following one of the winningest coaches in NFL history in Bill Belichick, who built the New England Patriots into one of the league’s preeminent franchises.
And the former Patriots player and Belichick assistant is embracing all of it, promising first and foremost that the Patriots’ new era would be led by someone who is very much his own man.
“I’m not trying to be Bill,” Mayo said during his introductory news conference Wednesday. “I think that Bill is his own man.