Patriots head coach Jerod Mayo was feeling confident about his offensive after Sunday’s 16-10 win over the Bengals.

So much so, in fact, that Mayo told upcoming opponents exactly what the Patriots plan to do for the rest of the season.

“I said we’re going to run the ball. It’s not a secret,” Mayo said on WEEI’s “The Greg Hill Show.” “Once again, I think sometimes it gets overblown. ‘Oh, they know the scheme. They know what you guys’ — we’re gonna run the ball all year. I don’t want to talk about it anymore. Just listen, we will always, always offensively, be a run-first team, and you gotta stop it. And if you do, then we have other answers after that. It’s not a secret, and I would say, it comes down to — everyone who gets so tied up into the X’s and O’s. No, it’s about beating the man across from you. It’s about execution. It’s about being tougher than that guy. It’s about playing with better fundamentals than that guy. It’s about moving bodies.”

The Patriots ran the ball 39 times for 170 yards on Sunday, and their only touchdown came on the ground from Rhamondre Stevenson, who had 25 carries for 120 yards. The Patriots ran 25 first-down plays before kneel-downs. Of those, only six were passing plays. They ran 22 second-down plays before kneel-downs, and 12 of those were runs.

“I said it before this game. And I tell the players, I don’t care if you feel like I’m giving out game plan secrets or anything like that. I really don’t. I’m telling you we’re going to run the ball,” Mayo said. “You got to stop us. At some point in time, like you got to stop us. And I tell the players too like, if you want to go out there and talk noise and say how great you are, I’m good with that, but you better be ready to go out there and prove it each and every weekend. I think the guys buy into that.”

The Patriots will likely need to be more productive through the air to continue winning games, but they didn’t need many heroics from quarterback Jacoby Brissett to beat the Bengals.