With Friday being yet another bye week day for the Patriots, there’s more time to unpack Tom E. Curran’s exclusive sitdown with first-year head coach Jerod Mayo for NBC Sports Boston.
Curran sat down with his former “Quick Slants” cohost earlier this week for an interview that was released Thursday on “Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast,” where the longtime WEEI contributor spent a little over 20 minutes talking with Mayo about his first year at the helm in New England.
While a bevy of topics were discussed, including why Mayo feels he will be a better coach next year than he has been this year, more insight into his continued collaboration with the Kraft family was an area that particularly peeked my interest, especially given the rhetoric we’ve heard from Patriots ownership this calendar year surrounding the greatest coach in the history of their franchise.
Curran asked Mayo, “How often is their dialogue with Robert [Kraft] or Jonathan [Kraft], in terms …