Mayo criticized his run defense as “soft” after witnessing yet another running back dominate the ground. Tank Bigsby, a backup for the Jaguars who replaced Travis Etienne Jr. due to injury, ran for 118 yards on 26 rushes and two scores.
During parts of the early-window game, the Jaguars did not call up passes for Trevor Lawrence; instead, they just handed the ball off.
In his final season as head coach of the Patriots, Bill Belichick used many of the same defensive players.
In response to Mayo’s “soft” remark, Belichick also didn’t hold back when he spoke on “The Pat McAfee Show” on Monday.
Those guys aren’t soft, so calling them that makes me feel sorry for them. “They were the league’s best team against the run last year,” Belichick remarked. Despite the fact that we were unable to score many offensive points, those men went out there and did it. That is a tough group, so I feel awful for the defensive players on that one.
AMID A SIX-GAME LOSING STREAK, PATRIOTS HEAD COACH JEROD MAYO CALLS THE TEAM “SOFT.”
After the game, Mayo would clarify that he didn’t think the squad was soft, but he did think they played that way on Sunday.
