Why does Eliot Wolf still have a job with Patriots?
Patriots owner Robert Kraft acted quickly Sunday when it came to firing head coach Jerod Mayo, announcing the decision just an hour after the season ended. One person who still has a job with the organization as of Monday morning, though, is executive vice president of player personnel Eliot Wolf, the team’s de facto general manager.
The Athletic’s Chad Graff reported on Sunday that Wolf “is expected to return to the Patriots in that role.”
The Greg Hill Show has one big question about that: Why?
“I still don't understand how Eliot Wolf has a job,” Chris Scheim said Monday morning as part of ‘The Lead’ segment, which you can listen to above. “I look at the situation – Jerod Mayo was bad, but he was also put in a horrible situation, almost a no-win situation in a lot of ways, just because of how bad the roster was. You look at what Eliot Wolf did in the offseason. He signed Nick Leverett and Chuks Okorafor. He expected Chuks Okorafor to start at left tackle. He no longer plays football. You cut Nick Leverett. You were going to try and move him to center instead of just having him play guard like he has his entire NFL career. That was a really good idea.
“And then every draft pick that's been made over the last two years is basically terrible or off the team, outside of Drake Maye. … Eliot Wolf should not have a job. I say that 100 percent, guaranteed, he should not have a job. Whoever the next head coach is, whether it's Mike Vrabel, Ben Johnson, Liam Coen, whoever it is should have the opportunity to bring in their guy to be the GM, and Eliot Wolf should also be out.”
“They gotta get rid of him,” Greg Hill agreed, adding that it still could happen even though it wasn’t announced on Sunday. “It’s very possible that they will. I don’t think that everything had to happen yesterday. Just because you wanted to make the change with Jerod Mayo to get somebody as your head coach, doesn’t mean that you can’t make a change with Eliot Wolf in the next couple weeks.”
Chris Curtis believes that is in fact how this will play out.
“I would be shocked if he [Wolf] is in his current position next year,” Curtis said. “Shocked.”
