Here are some takeaways from the Jerod Mayo Coronation on Wednesday:

—- The Patriots are trying to decide whether to name a personnel head from within or go outside.

This is the first time in a quarter of a century where we had to make major changes,” Kraft said. “We want to see what we have in-house, look what’s out there in the marketplace, and then wo what we think is right.

“I know people have ideas, but I can just assure you, any decision we make at this time will be to try to give the support to Jerod and put the oranization in the best

position it can to win games. We don’t have a fixed formula. We’re going to do – we know what’s worked for us in the past, and that’s what we’re going to do here in the future. Kraft also said “In the short term we’re looking for collaboration. Our team has a tremendous opportunity to position itself right, given our salary cap space and in my 30 years of ownership we’ve never drafted as low as we’re drafting. So we’re counting on our internal people, whom we’re still learning and evaluating. So we’re going to let that evolve and develop, and before the key decisions are made, we will appoint someone.”

—- The team also did make a front office announcement shortly after the press conference, naming Robyn Glaser the Executive VP of Football Business and Senior Advisor the head coach. She’s been with the Kraft Group since 2007, but with the Patriots was SVP of Business Affairs and Chief Administrative & Compliance Officer for the team.

— Anyone catch Mayo’s little dig at Bill Belichick? He talked about when, after retiring as a player, he went into the business world for three years rather than coach.

“I went to Optimum, I needed a break from Bill,” Mayo said.

Yikes. He also said “I don’t like echo chambers. I want people around me who are going to question my ideas, or question the way we have done things in the past.” That’s not really a dig, but basically showing it won’t be as much of a one-man control situation as it was with Belichick, for better or worse.

—- Meanwhile, if you didn’t have any doubt that Bill Parcells will never be inducted into the Patriots Hall of Fame, you certainly know now it will never, ever happen as long as the Kraft family owns the team. Kraft said when he passed initially on possibly hiring Belichick back in 1997, it was the one time he went against his instincts.

“My instinct was to do it, but because of (Belichick’s) loyalty to a man (Parcells) we had such difficulty with who did a great job, but he took another job when we were going to the Super Bowl, and I just couldn’t bring someone in – because trust is so important.”

There you go.

— Mayo was very smart in not making any promises or predictions. “We’re still evaluating everything as far as players, as far as the schemes, as far as the coaching staff,” he said. “I will probably be better equipped to answer (those types of questions) down the line. … We’re still in the evaluation process. So we’ll see.”

— The word you heard over and over again yesterday was “collaboration.” That wasn’t by accident, as with Belichick, there obviously wasn’t much of that. “One thing with collaboration, also, there are experts,” Mayo said when asked about what the level of his input in personnel would be. “I believe in leaning on experts in their field. Now, will we always do what that expert advises us to do? No, absolutely not. But at the same time I’m going to go into this thing with no expectations, and I said this as a rookie (in 2008), I wanted to be a sponge and learn as much as I can. We have a lot of people in this building that I can learn from in those regards.”

Overall, a good job on the day by Mayo, as a new era begins.

Tom King may be reached at X @Telegraph_TomK, or via email at tking@nashuatelegraph.com

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