The former Patriots head coach gave his thoughts on his successor getting fired.
Bill Belichick’s successor as head coach of the New England Patriots lasted all but a year: Jerod Mayo, team owner Robert Kraft’s hand-picked choice to eventually take over for Belichick, was fired after his team stumbled its way through a 4-13 season.
On Monday, the day after the move was announced, Belichick appeared on ESPN’s Pat McAfee Show to give his opinion on the move.
“I don’t have too much of a comment on the Patriots situation..
They have their decision makers and Mayo was handpicked by Robert Kraft..
They haven’t called me and asked”
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“The Patriots situation, I mean honestly, I don’t have too much of a comment on that. You know, Robert Kraft, Jonathan Kraft, Robyn Glaser, they’re the decision makers there,” Belichick said.
“Mayo was hand-picked by Robert, but in the end the decision making is something that they’d have to comment on and identify. They’re the ones that are really making the calls there and so they’re the ones that should comment on that. I really don’t know from the outside looking in. They haven’t called me and asked, so I don’t know.”
Belichick and the Patriots announced a mutual parting of the ways a year ago. After a one-year sabbatical away from coaching, the 72-year-old recently joined the University of North Carolina as its head coach.