Just incase anyone was wondering (Pats sign QB Coach)

[BionicPatriot]

The Patriots did hire a new QB coach....http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/transactions

[pookie]

Thanks for that info Bionic. Hey, can you do a couple searches and try to come up with some info on Josh McDaniels, our new QB coach? I'd like to read a little bit about him, but I'm swamped for time and can't go searching right now.

[nepatsfan93]

Originally posted by pookie
Thanks for that info Bionic. Hey, can you do a couple searches and try to come up with some info on Josh McDaniels, our new QB coach? I'd like to read a little bit about him, but I'm swamped for time and can't go searching right now.

Found it on our new favorite Belichick site...from 2002

http://www.allthingsbillbelichick.co...pecialtime.htm

The Patriots added more Northeast Ohio flavor when Belichick recently promoted Josh McDaniels, the son of Warren Harding and longtime Canton McKinley football coach Thom McDaniels, to defensive backs coach. Josh McDaniels started last season as a personnel assistant, but helped out after after the death of quarterbacks coach Dick Rehbein before the 2001 preseason opener

"Josh has got a great mind, he's a hard worker, really a class kid," Belichick said. "He comes from a great football background. He's been very good at everything I've asked him to do."

Asked if McDaniels reminded him of himself when he was starting out, Belichick said, "He's a lot better than I was."
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[runnerone]

Originally posted by nepatsfan93
Found it on our new favorite Belichick site...from 2002

http://www.allthingsbillbelichick.co...pecialtime.htm

Now I'm confused, the quote said he'd been promoted to Dback coach, but a previous note said he is now the QB coach??
I have to wonder about the defensive mentality of promoting defensive assistant to QB coach. Kind of giving Brady a look at himself from the other side. I wonder if it will be good in the long run?

[BigDickSeymour]

Belichick tabbed young Josh McDaniels, who spent the last three years working on the lower levels of the Patriots coaching and personnel chains, for the position. Hufangel took his 30 years of professional football experience to the New York Giants, where he will rejoin Tom Coughlin's staff as offensive coordinator. Before Hufangel came to New England in 2003, he was Coughlin's quarterbacks coach in Jacksonville before the staff was let go after the 2002 season.

McDaniels cut his teeth as a graduate assistant at Michigan State in 1999. It should come as no surprise to Patriots fans that current NCAA Coach of the Year and coach of the National Champion LSU Tigers, not to mention longtime Belichick confidant, Nick Saban was McDaniels' boss at the time. Wide receivers coach Brian Daboll made a similar rise through the Patriots lower coaching ranks after beginning his career with Saban.

McDaniels joined the Patriots as a personnel assistant in the scouting department in 2001. His responsibilities included film breakdown and scouting preparations for the defensive staff. He also helped Belichick and Weis with the quarterbacks after Dick Rehbein died during training camp that season. McDaniels then became a defensive assistant the following year and continued working in that capacity in 2003.

“Josh has been a valuable asset to our defensive coaching staff for much of the past three seasons,” Belichick said through a team release. “Now we look forward to his contributions on offense.”

McDaniels, a Canton, Ohio, native, was a standout wide receiver at John Carroll University, where he caught passes from recently promoted director of pro personnel Nick Caserio. Both grew up in Ohio with extensive football backgrounds that obviously contributed to their rapid ascents through the Patriots ranks.

McDaniels not only will work with two-time Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady, but perhaps more importantly will be counted on to develop youngsters Rohan Davey, who will play in Europe this spring, and second-year man Kliff Kingsbury, who spent his rookie year on injured reserve. Those two will battle for Brady's backup job, and perhaps against a yet-to-be-determined free agent veteran to replace Damon Huard, who becomes a free agent on March 3.


It does seem strange that you would promot someone that has been working with the defense, but Josh was a QB and apparently helped out as a QB coach in 2001.

Originally posted by runnerone
Now I'm confused, the quote said he'd been promoted to Dback coach, but a previous note said he is now the QB coach??

I have to wonder about the defensive mentality of promoting defensive assistant to QB coach. Kind of giving Brady a look at himself from the other side. I wonder if it will be good in the long run?

I wondered about this move as well. McDaniels is a former receiver, who then worked with the defense, he should be very well rounded. I like that he worked under Saban. Am I correct in thinking/reading somewhere that he also played QB at one point? I am wondering what the thinking is in terms of Brady and the others. Is it less technical and more positional coaching that they are after? Does that mean that they think Brady's skills are less of an issue than things like film study, and understanding defenses?

[runnerone]

I think this probably falls under the heading of a character promotion. I don't know for sure, but I heard somewhere that when John Gruden got his first asst.coaching position under Mike Holmgren with the Pack, Chuckie had been Holmgren's driver! How's that for being in the right place at the right time?
Maybe Bill just thinks the world of this guy and is going to plug him into the system.

[pookie]

Originally posted by runnerone
I think this probably falls under the heading of a character promotion. I don't know for sure, but I heard somewhere that when John Gruden got his first asst.coaching position under Mike Holmgren with the Pack, Chuckie had been Holmgren's driver! How's that for being in the right place at the right time?
Maybe Bill just thinks the world of this guy and is going to plug him into the system.

Ya know, sometimes that "good ole boy" network works out ok.