Boston.com · Oct 20, 2024
A porous Patriots defense is imploding at the worst time
Drake Maye's strong performance on Sunday wasn't enough to lift New England to a win in London. (Danielle Parhizkaran/Globe Staff)Jerod Mayo didn’t mince words last week when asked about the Patriots’ lackluster performance on defense against the Texans.
“Defensively I would say just the fundamentals of just tackling, our run fits have to improve,” Mayo said last Sunday after New England’s 41-21 loss to Houston. “They have to improve. I told all those guys, I said, ‘You should feel like crap today. You should feel like crap.’ You take away those two long runs, we [allowed] two runs over 50 yards. That’s just not winning football.”
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