“For me as a player, especially a quarterback, you want that,” Maye said. “You like that. You want to be coached hard. We’re playing at the highest level, but we still need to be coached hard. ... We probably need that, a little hard coaching.”

As much as Patriots players supported Jerod Mayo during his lone season as New England’s head coach, it sounds like many of them are excited about their new boss. On Wednesday morning, third-year cornerback Christian Gonzalez suggested “the building got a little more lax” under Mayo,

The New England Patriots made the big move to fired head coach Jerod Mayo immediately after the final game of the regular season. To replace him, they were able