The Globe’s Ben Volin comes out and says it: Blame the Krafts, not Jerod Mayo, for the Pats’ wretched play of late. “With each bumbling loss, the Krafts’ decision to hire Mayo looks increasingly arrogant or naive.”

Actually, it was hubris. … And it reminds me of when Notre Dame hired Gerry Faust as its head football coach, straight from high school, proving ND had come to believe in its own myths.