The Patriots are turning to a familiar face to run the offense under head coach Mike Vrabel, hiring Josh McDaniels as their offensive coordinator.
For McDaniels, this is his third stint as New England’s offensive coordinator. After successfully directing the sixth-ranked scoring offense in Mac Jones’s rookie season, McDaniels was the Raiders head coach for 25 games. Following his departure from Las Vegas, the veteran coordinator took the year off from coaching but stayed busy by visiting NFL and college programs such as USC (Lincoln Riley) and Ohio State (Chip Kelly) while waiting for his next job in the NFL. As someone who spent 18 seasons and won six Super Bowls on former coach Bill Belichick’s staff in New England, McDaniels kept his home in the Foxborough area.
McDaniels will now return to coach second-year QB Drake Maye and install an offensive system with a successful track record. When you have a young quarterback paired with a defensive-minded head coach, the offensive coordinator is crucial, as Coach Vrabel will lean on McDaniels to call offensive plays and develop Maye moving forward.
The ideal pairing for Maye was giving him a seasoned coach who isn’t learning key elements to coordinating an offense on the fly. That was the risk the Patriots would’ve run by hiring a first-time OC who hadn’t called plays previously or didn’t have experience coaching quarterbacks. With a second-year QB, you want an offensive coordinator who’s a master at his craft and knows what it looks like when things are done right. Now, the question is how McDaniels will build his scheme around Maye.
The longtime offensive coordinator is a highly versatile schemer who is excellent at attacking opponents’ tendencies. McDaniels was a pioneer in the formation and up-tempo revolutions. He’s also known for being excellent at designing sound pass protections, marrying a downhill gap run scheme with play-action passes, and is great at play sequencing and…
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