Jerod Mayo is an extremely popular candidate during an offseason that has eight vacant head-coaching positions in the NFL.
The New England Patriots de facto defensive coordinator is currently a “leading candidate” for the Houston Texans job. As of Monday following the 47-17 beatdown by the Buffalo Bills in the playoffs — Mayo is also set to interview with the Denver Broncos, per NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport.
Mayo, 35, played in over 100 games for the Patriots and following his retirement, he became an assistant coach in 2019. He’s technically been the inside linebackers coach, but he’s helped Bill Belichick and Steve Belichick call defensive plays over the past two seasons.
#Patriots defensive assistant and de facto coordinator Jerod Mayo will interview for the vacant #Broncos head coach job in the middle of this week. As of now, that’s his only request, but expect 1 or 2 more this week.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) January 16, 2022
On Monday, Belichick discussed the fact that Patriots staff will be targeted for new opportunities and positions.
“I don’t think it’s really my place to comment on other team’s jobs, or who they are looking for, or what they are doing or whatever. I’ll leave that to them,” he said, via WEEI. “Whatever it is, obviously we’ll comply with and however those situations turn out, again, that’s generally speaking, out of our control. We’ll see what happens. If something happens then we’ll adjust to it and react to it.
“We have a lot of good coaches. It’s not surprising that other teams would be interested in talking to them, or other staff members — the same thing with the scouting staff. We basically have that every single year. How that goes and what will happen, again, I don’t know. That’s not my decision to make. Certainly, if there’s an opportunity for somebody that’s at a high level that we can’t provide here, I understand they would have to consider that. We’ll see what happens on that.”
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