Jerod Mayo: What it takes to be a linebacker for Bill Belichick
Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast
NBC Sports Boston
4.5 • 803 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, as we get ready for the draft here, I have had a thought now for months, really since the end of the last Patriot season, thinking they need to get younger. |
| 0:13.7 | They need to get more athletic at the linebacker position. |
| 0:17.8 | So who should we ask? |
| 0:19.2 | Who has some expertise specifically when it comes to linebackers in |
| 0:23.3 | the Patriots? Defense just so happens. We have a guy. His name is Gerard Mayo. Gerard, welcome to what I am |
| 0:29.4 | calling a linebacker crash course. I'm just glad you had a thought. Those are rare. I will give you that. |
| 0:37.7 | Very rare. |
| 0:51.7 | I also want to point out because Gerard mentioned before the show, you know, I can talk about more than just linebackers. |
| 0:58.7 | Don't put me in a box. |
| 0:59.8 | So we don't want to do that. |
| 1:00.9 | We don't want to put Gerard in a box. |
| 1:02.0 | You can talk running backs. |
| 1:02.9 | You can talk receivers. |
| 1:03.8 | You can talk quarterbacks. |
| 1:04.8 | You guys know that already. |
| 1:05.8 | You listen to the podcast every week. |
| 1:07.9 | But Gerard, we want to have you on, obviously. |
| 1:11.0 | I think they're going to draft a linebacker. |
| 1:12.3 | I think they might do in the first round. |
| 1:14.0 | But I think it would be good to kind of reset and just explain to the people as they're |
| 1:20.3 | getting ready for the draft as well. |
| 1:21.6 | And they're trying to figure out who the Patriots are going to draft. |
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