FOXBORO — In Patriots training camp, if you jump offsides, you run a lap. That was true throughout the Bill Belichick era, and it’s remained so under new head coach Jerod Mayo.

During Monday’s practice, a string of repeated pre-snap infractions resulted in not just one player, but the entire offense taking off for a jog around the goal post.

“We just kept jumping offsides,” tight end Austin Hooper said after practice. “We aren’t figuring it out by just talking to each other — let’s run until we figure it out. We’ll be a cross-country team, or we’ll be a football team. I’d rather be a football team.

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“So it’s good that Coach Mayo’s doing that. It’s not a unique tactic by any means. I’ve been places where it’s like, ‘Look, guys, I’d rather play football, but until we can lock in on the details, we’re going to get conditioning if we’re not going to get plays in. I really like his leadership style.”

Hooper said Mayo told the offense — which entered camp with major questions at offensive tackle and receiver and new faces at quarterback in veteran Jacoby Brissett and rookie Drake Maye — that its mental errors were not up to the Patriots’ “standard.”

New England committed at least three false start penalties and had another pre-snap miscommunication that resulted in a busted play.

“That’s the stuff that requires no talent that we’re all on each other as teammates to get together,” said Hooper, who’s played for five NFL teams. “… I mean, the stuff that we were messing up on that you guys saw requires no talent. It’s a bunch of guys playing together, hearing the cadence and being mentally locked in.

“I know the pads are on so everyone’s ready to hit, hit, hit, but you’ve got to calm your mind a little bit and remember the details like when the ball’s being snapped. Day 1 in pads things, so we’ve just got to keep holding each other accountable and keep taking steps in the right direction.”

Wide receiver K.J. Osborn and running back Antonio Gibson echoed those comments.

“We weren’t upholding the standard, so we got called out,” Osborn said. “We talked about it, and that’s why we have practice — to get it over with now and have a good day tomorrow, too.”

Despite the concentration lapses, Hooper called Monday’s practice “a step forward” for New England’s new-look O. Maye struggled, but Brissett delivered his best day of camp to date.

“Was it perfect? No,” Hooper said. “But it was a step forward in the right direction.”