Posted on 01/05/2025 3:02:45 PM PST by vespa300
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- In a surprising turn, Jerod Mayo is out after one year as head coach of the New England Patriots, the team announced Sunday.
The Patriots finished the 2024 season with a 4-13 record. Mayo's one-year tenure matches Rod Rust, who went 1-15 in 1990, for the shortest in franchise history.
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I think it's a different case when both teams know what they're doing. The Patriots won the game when losing it had more benefit to them. I can't recall a case where someone was fired for winning, or a league that would sanction it.
-PJ
the cowardly not smart tanking tactic will come back to bite the Chiefs
I stopped watching when the whole kneeling thing reached a head. I watch occasionally now, to hang out with a buddy, but yeah. I picked up on the whole DEI thing
Well, that is what it gets you.
Lettuce not encourage this sort of thing.
Couldn’t even manage to lose a game to guarantee the first pick.
Exactly.
So Vrabel will go to the Patriots.
Crispus Attacks, he wasn’t.
Kraft was so eager to get rid of Belichek.
Then there were all the accolades for this guy to take over.
Gee, Bob Kraft, what went wrong??
Only if he gives Kraft a massage.
Hmm...I think auto racing and football are different things. There are ways to throw the game without throwing the game. Play the backups....just to get a look at them, or avoid injury to the starters.
And what if I said boxing instead of racing?
My point wasn't about losing the game, it was about winning the game.
The writer was pointing that the team lost the first pick because they won, and that the head coach was fired.
I'm not saying that the two are related, but that if the coach was fired for not losing, that would be considered a crime in some circles, especially when betting on games is involved.
What racing and football do have in common is the team aspect of a single owner organization sponsoring multiple cars. NASCAR expects all the drivers to do their best to win; a driver who purposely spins out in order to help another driver on the team to win violates the competition clause in the team charter.
How about today's game between the Buccaneers and the Saints? The Bucs already had the game won with 36 seconds left to go, but wide receiver Mike Evans needed one more reception for five yards in order to tie the record and personally received $3 million dollars.
Does it look like the Saints tried to stop Evans? Did anybody on the Saints want to be THAT guy who prevented Evans from getting $3 million when they already lost the game?
Nobody's going to get fired over that. I'm just saying that Kraft said going into the season that he knew Mayo was going to have a hard time and that he supported him in these "rebuilding" times, and now he's firing Mayo in his first season as head coach for having a losing season (and nothing more)?
I'm just saying that they can't publicly say it was because he won when he was supposed to lose, because winning hurt the team's position going into next year. Nobody gets fired for winning (unless you're a boxer who was supposed to lose the "big fight").
-PJ
Well to be fair, when two teams play a game, someone’s gonna lose.
Maybe we can have a Best Losing Team award for the most prolific losing team.
“The Giants need to fire their head coach as well...”
Agree, and he’s a white guy, and another failure.
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