Jerod Mayo set the tone right off the bat Monday morning in Orlando.
"Hopefully you guys come out of here with some clarity as far as our strategy is concerned," the New England Patriots head coach told reporters, including our Tom E. Curran, during the NFL coaches' breakfast at the Annual League Meeting.
That's obviously a departure from Mayo's predecessor, Bill Belichick, who would rather get his teeth pulled than discuss strategy in public. But Mayo has been transparent with the media early in his head coach tenure, and he continued that trend Monday morning by directly answering a wide range of questions about the Patriots' future.