Your thoughts on Jerod Mayo? He looks very slow and hesistant this year. Being passed up by Freeny is not good especially when you were one of the defense’s best players a year ago prior to injury. According to the guys at PFW, he’s been a full participant at camp and hadn’t looked hampered by an injury. Could he still be dealing with something? I can’t think of any other explanation. This is alarming because I feel if he went back to his level of play, the defense can make some positive strides

I’ve been a pretty tough Mayo critic for a while now and I feel bad piling on a guy who suffered a major injury but he still doesn’t look like the player he was yet. We can’t dismiss that a torn patellar tendon is a major injury and a player might never be the same again after it, especially when that player relied on speed like Mayo did.

I wonder why he didn’t start the year on PUP. Honestly at this point I’m really missing that idiot Brandon Spikes. They could really use his presence in this linebacker corps right now, especially against a team like the Jets.

Mayo just doesn’t have that pop to defeat tackles and seems easily blocked at this point and unable to blow a play up with superior anticipation and quickness, his old hallmark.

The hope is that he gets back to where he was this season, but we’re at the halfway point from August to February so if it’s going to happen it has to happen soon.