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Why Patriots Captain Believes Jerod Mayo Should Be NFL Head Coach

As Jerod Mayo seeks an NFL head-coaching job, he has the New England Patriots’ longest-tenured team captain in his corner.

Special teamer Matthew Slater, who was part of Mayo’s Patriots draft class in 2008, made the case for Mayo as a head-coaching candidate during a Monday appearance on WEEI’s “Mut at Night.”

“I’m very biased,” Slater said, as transcribed by WEEI.com. “Jerod and I came in the same year. I can think of very few men that I?ve ever been around in my entire life — and that’s inside and outside of football — that possess the skills that Jerod has.