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Robert Kraft is taking responsibility for head coach Jerod Mayo's struggles in the 2024 season.
The Patriots fired Mayo shortly after the team's Week 18 victory over the Buffalo Bills. New England finished 4-13 for the second consecutive season. It was Mayo's first and only season as the head coach and it came after his highest coaching position had been the inside linebackers coach.
Kraft addressed the media for the first time since the firing on Monday and said that he had put Mayo in "an untenable situation." and that "the whole situation is on me.