Patriots coach Jerod Mayo clarified his comments about the Patriots being a soft football team on Monday.. The message he meant to get across, he said, is that they were playing soft in the moment ...

Patriots Jerod Mayo called the Patriots a ‘soft football team’ after loss to Jaguars Mayo, who was a hard-nosed linebacker during his playing days, says he's coaching a soft football team.

FOXBORO -- Jerod Mayo called his Patriots a "soft football team" after Sunday's disappointing loss to the Jaguars in London. Former Patriots head coach Bill Belichick pushed back on that ...

First-year New England Patriots head coach Jerod Mayo said his club played like a "soft football team" following Sunday's 32-16 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars in London.

Jerod Mayo revisited his comments about his New England Patriots as a "soft football team across the board" on Monday, saying he believes the players have what it takes to turn things around.

I'm not gonna stand for anybody calling this football team soft. I think that's bulls---. If there's opinions out there that feel that way, they don't know anything about NFL football.

They play hard as hell, and at no point have we put on tape at any point this season that this is a soft football team. I can't even wrap my mind around how that would even be a conversation.

The Patriots were anything but soft when Mayo was a player, and he led the NFL in tackles in 2010. But knowing how to execute and getting others to do it are completely different things. It’s a ...