Bill Belichick Makes Sly Remark After Patriots Fire Jerod Mayo

Bill Belichick didn’t go scorched earth, but slipped in a little bit of shade.

While appearing on “The Pat McAfee Show” on Monday afternoon, Belichick was asked for his thoughts after the New England Patriots fired first-year head coach Jerod Mayo. Belichick, who frequently took at shots at Mayo’s Patriots during the 2024 campaign, might not have been celebrating the one-year flameout, but there was still something there.

“The Patriots situation, honestly, I don’t have too much of a comment on that,” Belichick told McAfee. “Robert Kraft, Jonathan Kraft, Robyn Glaser, they’re the decision-makers there. Who exactly does what and so forth? 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.”

Belichick added with a smirk: “They haven’t called me and asked so I really don’t know.”

The legendary Patriots head coach was fired in last year after winning six Super Bowls in two-plus decades. Belichick was immediately replaced by Mayo, who Kraft named the heir apparent to Belichick during his final seasons in Foxboro, Mass. It didn’t sit well with Belichick, according to reports.

Belichick took over the North Carolina Tar Heels football program last month, and it’s fair to assume Mayo won’t be serving as a defensive assistant in Chapel Hill.