The Patriots have added former Packers line of defense coach/run recreation coordinator Jerry Montgomery to their teaching employees, in line with ESPN.
Montgomery, 44, had been the longest-tenured coach on Green Bay’s employees. Following 11 years as a university assistant, he joined the Packers in 2015, and tutored prime defensive tackles, together with Pro Bowlers Kenny Clark and Mike Daniels. The Packers not too long ago employed ex-Boston College head coach Jeff Hafley to be their new defensive coordinator, and are reshuffling their defensive employees.
Montgomery is an apparent candidate to interchange new Patriots defensive coordinator DeMarcus Covington because the crew’s line of defense coach. Montgomery, like new Pats offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelt, overlapped with Patriots director of scouting Eliot Wolf in Green Bay from 2015-2018. Wolf additionally has ties to ex-Giants head coach and two-time offensive coordinator Ben McAdoo, who’s reportedly in talks to hitch the crew.
Montgomery began his teaching profession as a pupil assistant at Iowa in 2002, then moved by the highschool and neighborhood faculty ranks earlier than working because the line of defense coach at Northern Iowa for 2 years. He additionally had temporary stints at Michigan, Wyoming and Oklahoma, earlier than becoming a member of the Packers as a low-level assistant in 2015 beneath former defensive coordinator Dom Capers, a one-time Patriots coach.
As a participant, Montgomery was a three-year beginning defensive deal with on the University of Iowa, He later performed within the Arena Football League for the Chicago Rush, Colorado Crush and Las Vegas Gladiators from 2003-2005, whereas moonlighting as a highschool and neighborhood faculty coach.
The Pats’ present defensive employees consists of Covington, Montgomery and holdovers assistants Mike Pellegrino, Keith Jones and Brian Belichick, ought to they keep beneath new head coach Jerod Mayo. Belichick has already been provided a spot on the brand new employees, whereas his brother, linebackers coach Steve Belichick, reportedly accepted the defensive coordinator job on the University Washington on Monday.
Source: www.bostonherald.com