Curran and Phil Perry talk about whether the Patriots should hire an experienced offensive coordinator to replace a young coach who hasn’t mastered the position with all the work and changes on the ball.
Wondering how much work Jerod Mayo has ahead of him this season? Check out the Coaching Staff section of the New England Patriots website. Mayo was named the new manager, with no other coaches named. “The 2024 coaching staff will be announced at a later date,” Page said.That clean slate points to the changes that could take place in New England this season following the departure of Bill Belichick, who ran a unique football company for 24 years.
The 2023 class saw the biggest changes on offense, with offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien leaving for Ohio State and an official OC search underway to improve a unit that last season ranked in the NFL in points per game (13.9).
But OC isn’t the only coaching position New England needs to address. In the latest Patriots Talk podcast, Patriots Insiders Tom E. Curran and Phil Perry highlighted the group that will take center stage this season after a disappointing 2023.”We have a really good coach on the offensive line where we need experience,” Curran said. “We haven’t invested a generation in this, have we?” We didn’t talk about it at all. ”
Is Adrian Clem back?” Is Billy Yates a good offensive line coach? It’s been 3-4 years since he came here. While he has the skills at times, he’s also had people around him who share that position, including Joe Judge, Matt Patricia and Bill Belichick. It’s like you went under the radar for me.”It’s been less than a year since Clem was named the Patriots’ offensive line coach, but Andrew Callahan and Doug Cade of the Boston Herald report that some league sources don’t expect him to return until 2024.
Yates has been an assistant offensive line coach in New England since 2021, but Curran said he never personally took over the position group, a role Belichick himself took over after Clem left the team last season due to health issues . So Mayo could bring in a new offensive line coach in 2024. Probably someone related to whoever hires the team in OC.
The Patriots interviewed four candidates for the OC opening, including Los Angeles Rams coach Nick Caley, Rams coach Zach Robinson, Cincinnati Bengals coach Dan Pitcher and Seattle Seahawks OC Shane Waldron, who later became OC. of the Chicago Bears. . Caley and Robinson, both Patriots-bound, are intriguing candidates, with Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer suggesting it could be a deal.
“I think the Patriots will hire one of these pick-up types as coordinator and have the support of a senior offensive assistant,” Breer wrote Tuesday. Elsewhere on offense, Troy Brown will return as receivers coach in 2024 and is expected to represent the Patriots in the Senior Bowl on February 2, 2024.
However, there appears to be limited training fluctuation. Will Lawing worked with O’Brien at four different training stations. And the futures of running backs coach Vinny Sunseri and assistant running backs coach Evan Rothstein could also be in jeopardy depending on who’s who. hire. Mayo is his OC.
“Those assistant coaches work closely with the offensive coordinator, and Troy said, ‘How am I not the offensive coordinator?'” Curran added. “When you have a coach who’s going to be the head coach now and has to make decisions about the players he’s worked with, there’s a lot to deal with in that position.”
