It’s only Week 5 of the NFL season, but Jerod Mayo’s team needs a win in the worst way, and the injury-ridden Dolphins might be their last, best chance to get another one.
“Look, Jacoby [Brissett] is out there trying to do what we’ve asked him to do from the start,” coach Jerod Mayo said. “He’s taking some big hits, and his toughness continues to show up. Execution from the entire offense has to be better.”
Team president Jonathan Kraft has asserted that there “literally is no gray area” regarding domestic violence, yet the Patriots left it to the NFL to act.
At 55 years old, a coaching career that began at Brown has taken him to Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, New England, Pennsylvania, Houston, Alabama, Ohio, and now, back to Boston.
As the architect of a roster that is missing key pieces and struggling to jell with the ones that are here, Sweeney is as much on the hook as the man he fired.
The 70-year-old coach found purpose and value in not just building a product from the ground up, but in continuing to add layers to the same foundation.