Mayo has been a hot head coaching candidate in the past, and Belichick is known to go to the wall for those he really wants to keep.

"Real revolutionaries go to the wall for what they believe," he said.

“I like that we can just go to the wall for inspiration,” he said.

But why are young political activists willing to go to the wall for fishballs?

His players love that because they feel like, ‘He believes in us and is ready to go to the wall for us. So we need to do the same for him.’