It was a sparsely-filled media room on Friday morning at Gillette Stadium, as Patriots head coach Jerod Mayo held his regular pre-practice press conference to finish out the week.
With much of the Mayo-talk this week circulating around his dealings with the media and job security moving forward, there was an air of “let’s get this thing over with” to Mayo’s time at the podium.
His answers were shorter, his tone was softer, and he used any opportunity he could to shell out some version of the Belichick-ian line of “we’re focused on [insert team X, this week the Bills].”
There was even a moment about five minutes into Mayo’s presser where the first-year head coach looked for an opportunity to cut things short, motioning towards standing up after a brief lull in the conversation while asking, “We’re good?”
More questions followed, and Mayo sat for another two and a …