When Jerod Mayo was a linebacker with the Patriots, there was a very different locker room dynamic than what exists in New England today. He remembers being a rookie in 2008 and walking into the locker room, where he’d see guys playing cards and hanging out. They did not have social media to entertain them.
“It was like Junior Seau, Mike Vrabel, Tedy Bruschi – guys who had flip phones. They had flip phones for the longest time. They still had Blackberries in their pockets. So, they weren’t even really thinking about social media,” Mayo said on a conference call on Tuesday.