Robert Kraft revealed that he started planning for Jerod Mayo to be Bill Belichick's successor a lot earlier than we all thought.

Thursday, as the Patriots trotted onto the field at MetLife Stadium, Bill Belichick wasn’t there to coach against the Jets.

Mayo was drafted by the Patriots in the first round of the 2008 NFL Draft and has spent his entire playing career in Foxborough up until his retirement following the 2015 season. He then joined New England's coaching staff as the inside linebacker coach in 2019, so he has been around the organization and Kraft for nearly two decades.

Bill Belichick had some pointed criticism at the Patriots for how they managed the clock at the end of the first half on Sunday.

Not featuring a coaching search this year, the Patriots have still not conducted a true hunt for their sideline leader

Former New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick chose Patriots defensive standout Keion White, who was nominated by Chris Long, as Inside the NFL's "Football Guy" of Week 1. Belichick selected White out of Georgia Tech in the second round of the 2023

The purge was complete once Bill Belichick left New England after last season. The departure of the game’s most decorated head coach came four years after the exit of the game’s most successful quarterback,

Bill Belichick knows a thing or two about New England Patriots defensive lineman Keion White. It was he, after all, who made the decision to draft White to the Patriots in the second round of last year’s draft.