.Mike Reiss, ESPN Personnel WriterSep 11, 2024, 06:07 PM ETCloseMike Reiss is actually an NFL media reporter at ESPN as well as covers the New England Patriots. Reiss has actually covered the Patriots given that 1997 as well as participated in ESPN in 2009. In 2019, he was actually named Massachusetts Sportswriter of the Year due to the National Athletics Media Affiliation. You can easily follow Reiss on Twitter at @MikeReiss. FOXBOROUGH, Mass.-- New England Patriots professional quarterback Jacoby Brissett had actually started his news conference Wednesday morning when an unpleasant surprise site visitor plunged the procedures. It was head instructor Jerod Mayonnaise, and also in his palm as he walked on to the system was actually a bright orange University of Tennessee tee shirt." What's up, bro? You failed to remember one thing," Mayonnaise claimed to Brissett, who was actually sitting and answering a question. "Come on guy!" Editor's Picks1 RelatedMayo after that handed Brissett the long-sleeve tee, checking out as Brissett put it on. The quarterback said, "This is dreadful." Mayo saw it in a different way." Wonderful. Possess a really good one," he claimed grinning, before going out the door to his office.It was a pointer of just how college competitions reside on in NFL locker rooms, and also how things have actually changed in New England with Mayo-- that played at Tennessee coming from 2004 to 2007-- having actually prospered Bill Belichick after the latter's 24 times as head coach.Mayo and No. 3 quarterback Joe Milton III, an additional Tennessee alumnus, had actually made a contract with Brissett, an N.C. Condition alumnus, final week.If the No. 24 NC State Wolfpack trumped the No. 14 Tennessee Volunteers on Sunday in Charlotte, N.C., Mayo as well as Milton would need to put on a Wolfpack shirt facing the media. Vice versa for Brissett if Tennessee won.Painfully for Brissett, Tennessee spun to a 51-10 triumph over N.C. State.And this was the rate he needed to pay.Jerod Mayonnaise gets there during the course of Jacoby Brissett's news conference along with an Educational institution of Tennessee hoodie ... and Brissett places it on as aspect of an arrangement along with Tennessee alumni Mayo/Joe Milton after Tennessee trumped NC State. pic.twitter.com/n7KyDf4xjnu2014 Mike Reiss (@MikeReiss) September 11, 2024.