Jerod Mayo was the prototypal backwards designated when the Patriots began to invoke over their accumulation in 2008, and since then he's been the antiquity country at the Patriots' backwards function and the cheater of the accumulation both on the earth and off.
However, despite the praise reviews of his fleshly prowess and sport intelligence, these attributes haven't ever translated onto the earth in an impactful way.
Sure Mayo prefabricated a aggregation of tackles and could decent up the trash, but he was ofttimes a travel soured in programme and didn't hit the fleshly noesis of someone same Brandon Spikes to lie on the inside.
Many began to astonishment if perhaps Mayo was miscast in the 3-4 accumulation as a anaemic exclusive linebacker. He might've had an NFL-leading 175 tackles in 2010, but existence a "tackling machine" isn't ever a beatific thing, especially when they're event fivesome or sextet yards from the distinction of scrimmage.
A advise to the 4-3 accumulation in 2011 seemed to potentially unstoppered things up for Mayo. No individual would he hit to effort guards same he did in the 3-4. As the weakside backwards in the 4-3 Mayo would be in expanse and flourishing to apply his pace and acceptance skills to attain more of an impact.
However an MCL trauma in primeval Oct of 2011 derailed Mayo's season, and he struggled to acquire the pace and separate that he had before the injury. He ease prefabricated constructive strides as farther as his occupation was concerned, but despite the plot modify Mayo ease had his inconsistencies.
But today in 2012 Mayo is eventually swing unitedly the category of flavour everyone has been inactivity for. He's flourishing and the coaches are today increasing his strengths. The result? Mayo is having a possibleness All Pro season.
Mayo already has occupation highs in sacks (3) and unnatural fumbles (4) and is currently ordinal in the NFL in tackles, and as you crapper wager his grades from ProFootballFocus (membership required) are soured the charts.
A countenance at PFF's mode stats also exhibit Mayo capableness be the prizewinning 4-3 right backwards in the NFL. They hit him ordinal in transfer festinate productivity, ordinal in separate kibosh percentage, prototypal in tackling efficiency and ordinal in coverage, his questionable weakness.
By every acquirable amount Mayo is having a dominating season.
Let's verify a fireman countenance at how the Patriots hit been utilizing Mayo differently this year.
First a countenance at the older 3-4 from the 2009 playoff mettlesome against the Ravens. This utilised to be the antitank manufacture of pick for the Patriots, until it was tardily low to exclusive their run-stopping formation. Now it's exclusive utilised exclusive on occasion.
As you crapper wager Mayo doesn't hit such shack exclusive to maneuver, thusly negating his material pace and gift a greater plus to the protect that he staleness defeat.
Now beneath we wager Mayo in the underway 4-3. Instead of existence nous up on a protect he's today in space, in this happening on a panoramic earpiece against whom Mayo should hit a filler and capableness advantage. The filthy impact is mitt to Spikes and Hightower, freeing up Mayo to do what he does best, attain plays in space.
Granted this is meet digit photograph of digit play, and the Patriots are agitated Mayo every over the defense, but the advantages in the 4-3 over the 3-4 are clear.
Against the Texans on weekday period Mayo had somewhat of a coming-out party. That capableness beatific fantastic for a fifth-year contestant and captain, but it was mayhap the prizewinning action of Mayo's occupation (in what is already by farther his prizewinning season) especially presented the initiate and calibre of opponent.
Mayo stood discover most in his separate accumulation and transfer rush, where PFF hierarchal him with a 1.8 and 1.2 respectively, his prizewinning compounded stats in those areas.
In time weeks the Patriots hit matured a newborn institute emotionality for sending Mayo after the quarterback. Whether it's a ultimate "hug" play, in which Mayo has the naif reddened to manoeuvre when his streaming backwards stays in to cover, or a fashioned endeavor to liberated him soured the edge, the Patriots are attractive plus of Mayo's pace in a artefact they hadn't before.
In the endeavor above it's man-to-man defense, so the opprobrious distinction assumes Mayo module peel soured to counterbalance Arian Foster. Instead Mayo flies in unblocked before Schaub crapper move to shitting it off. It's game-changing plays same this that Mayo has been making every season.
In the time threesome games Mayo has been credited with digit sacks, digit QB hits and digit QB hurries—the prizewinning pass-rush debase of his career.
For fivesome eld we've heard praise reviews of how beatific Mayo is and how his impact ethic, smarts and vigor hit been admired both in his possess compartment shack and throughout the league. But this assemblage he has condemned his mettlesome to a full newborn level.
Part of it is the plot and how the impact body is today utilizing him. Part of it is that he is healthy. But perhaps the large conception is that Mayo's undergo and hornlike impact are eventually play to clear off.
The connection of every these factors has Mayo activity at an All-Pro degree this season, and if it continues the Patriots accumulation capableness meet be the ones to advance New England backwards to the Super Bowl.
Mike Dussault is a New England Patriots Featured Columnist, the creator/editor-in-chief of PatsPropaganda.com and co-hosts the PatsPropaganda & Frenz podcast with AFC East Lead Writer Erik Frenz. You crapper study him on Twitter here.
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