The Patriots have employed ex-Browns offensive coordinator to be their new offensive coordinator, a supply confirmed to the Herald.
Van Pelt, 53, was fired in Cleveland final month after 4 seasons with the staff. During his tenure, the Browns’ offense ranked within the high half of league scoring yearly however one. Van Pelt has intensive expertise teaching quarterbacks and beforehand served as an offensive coordinator with the Bills in 2009.
According to a league supply, Van Pelt interviewed with the Patriots on Wednesday night time and spent all day Thursday in New England. Van Pelt’s hiring was sudden, because the Patriots have been related to 11 different candidates throughout their search. Among these candidates have been Rams tight ends coach Nick Caley and ex-Bears offensive coordinator Luke Getsy, who traveled to New England for in-person interviews this week.
Caley, who sat for a second interview, was lengthy thought of the favourite within the search, and have become the staff’s first finalist in latest days, in accordance with sources. The 41-year-old spent the primary eight years of his profession in New England earlier than leaving final offseason for Los Angeles, the place he could also be in line for a promotion after the Rams misplaced move recreation coordinator Zac Robinson.
On Van Pelt, a league supply who beforehand labored him stated: “Great dude. Culture changer. Good coach. West Coast mostly, but has other influences.”
Prior to touchdown in Cleveland in 2020, Van Pelt coached quarterbacks for the Bengals over two seasons and in Green Bay from 2014-2017. He began with the Packers as a working backs coach in 2012 and beforehand had two-year stints because the quarterbacks coach in Tampa Bay (2010-11) and Buffalo (2008-09), when he additionally doubled because the Bills’ offensive coordinator beneath head coach Dick Jauron.
Van Pelt initially entered the NFL as an eighth-round decide of the Steelers in 1993. He performed quarterback, however didn’t see any recreation motion till 1995, when he signed with Buffalo firstly of a nine-year run with the Bills. Upon retiring as a participant, he spent two seasons as an analyst for Buffalo’s radio community and later entered the teaching ranks in NFL Europe.
Van Pelt’s first job was quarterbacks coach for the Frankfurt Galaxy in 2005, when he additionally known as performs. He moved again to Buffalo, the place he was a volunteer coach with the Bills and later a quarterbacks coach/move recreation coordinator with the University of Buffalo in 2006. A 12 months later, he returned to the NFL as a Bills offensive assistant and climbed the ladder to first coordinator job.
Source: www.bostonherald.com