When new head coach of the New England Patriots Jerod Mayo leads the Pats into Cincinnati on September 8th, 2024, it will be the first Patriots game coached by someone other than Bill Belichick since Pete Carroll still occupied the job on the final day of the 1999 regular season. This is all to say that a new era is ahead in Foxborough, and it's quickly becoming evident that Mayo intends to make his mark on this franchise that has long done things Belichick's The Patriot Way.
Although it may seem like a minor tweak in comparison to the many other ways the Patriots will operate differently without Bill Belichick, one area where Jerod Mayo is doing things a little differently than his predecessor is with the Patriots training camp schedule.