LONDON – In his locker room speech after Sunday’s game, Jerod Mayo called the Patriots soft and selfish.

Among the players listening, at least one agreed.

“Jerod just said that everyone has to check their ego when they come in. And I agree with him,” Daniel Ekuale told the Herald after a 32-16 loss to Jacksonville. “I feel like a lot of guys think too highly of themselves and need to check their egos and just play as a team.”

Ekuale and the Patriots’ defense allowed more than 160 rushing yards for the third straight game, the first time the franchise had done so since 1993. Ekuale’s comments came less than three weeks after fellow defensive tackle Davon Godchaux called out his teammates for playing selfishly outside the system. Despite Godchaux’s efforts, the Pats allowed a season-worst 193 rushing yards the following weekend in Miami, the same game in which Kendrick Bourne made his season debut.

On Sunday, Bourne and the Pats offense were held under 20 points for the fifth time this year. The veteran receiver felt a lack of energy and attributed it to the players not adjusting their internal clocks for the 9:30 a.m. start on the East Coast.

“The energy could have been better, much better. We have to find ways to fight adversity from within,” Bourne told the Herald. “We know we will play at 9:30. As the week goes on, we need to understand that.”

How can this mentality change?

“This is making personal decisions. Instead of staying up all night or eating whatever,” he said. “Whatever it is, whatever makes us better, we have to make those decisions to get better so that when we get to (the game) we can be better.”

Bourne suggested he didn’t feel full commitment from his teammates.

“We had good, long drives and we have to give our best. But with these trips we are starting to get tired. “We have to evaluate ourselves,” Bourne said. “I don’t know exactly who it is, but as a group it just feels like that. I can feel it as I go. This is where I see that we can do much better.”