Joe Milton III passed for a touchdown and ran for another in his NFL debut, and the New England Patriots cost themselves the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL draft with a 23-16 win over the AFC East champion Buffalo Bills.

Barely over an hour after the win for the Patriots, they provided a surprising NFL headline: Head coach Jerod Mayo has been fired: The #Patriots are moving on from coach Jerod Mayo, as the handpicked successor to Bill Belichick goes one-and-done, per me, @MikeGarafolo and @TomPelissero.

The Patriots are once again in need of a new head coach just a year after Jerod Mayo took over for Bill Belichick. Khari D. Thompson of Boston.com joins WBUR's Morning Edition to help us break down how the Patriots got here and what's next for the team.

The Jets were already searching for a new head coach. Former Tennessee Titans bench boss Mike Vrabel is available and he had an interview in New York last week. More noteworthy: Vrabel, 49, is a former Patriots player as well and the speed his former team moved on from Mayo sure does look like Vrabel is on their radar.

The team parted ways with Mayo following Sunday’s season-ending victory over the Buffalo Bills, which caused the team to lose their number one pick in the 2025 NFL Draft.

Rob Gronkowski believes the New England Patriots made an "unfair" decision by firing Jerod Mayo on Sunday. The Patriots announced Mayo's dismissal just

The New England Patriots defeated the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, which made way for the obvious move – firing their head coach. Jerod Mayo coached for his life wh

The New England Patriots are following the same path as the Houston Texans in 2022 after losing the No. 1 overall pick.

The New England Patriots have fired coach Jerod Mayo after one season, beginning another reboot for the franchise just a year after it parted with longtime coach Bill Belichick.

The New England Patriots didn't even wait until "Black Monday" to break out the pink slips, as Robert Kraft decided to announce head coach Jerod Mayo'sfiring shortly after the Patriots won their regular-season finale against the Buffalo Bills,

FOXBOROUGH — The Patriots have made Jerod Mayo a one-and-done head coach. Mayo was fired immediately after Sunday’s 23-16 win over the Buffalo Bills that dropped New England down to No. 4 overall in next spring’s NFL Draft. The Patriots went 4-13 in his lone season at the helm.