The Patriots are figuring out what comes next.
The soon-to-be 71-year-old head coach helped lead New England to six Super Bowl wins, but the franchise has struggled since Tom Brady’s departure in 2020.
With Bill Belichick’s NFL time winding down — and several of his top coordinators having been poached away over the years — it seems the Patriots are looking at ex-linebacker Jerod Mayo as the coach’s potential replacement.
“Well, he’s definitely a strong candidate to be the heir apparent, but we have some other good people in our system,” New England owner Robert Kraft told NFL Network at the NFL Annual Meeting on Monday.