The Patriots employed Bill O’Brien as their subsequent offensive coordinator final week, however their teaching workers remains to be beneath building.
The Rams are hiring ex-Patriots tight ends coach Nick Caley to the identical place on their teaching workers, a supply confirmed to the Herald. Caley, 40, had been the crew’s longest offensive assistant. He joined the group as an offensive assistant in 2015 and coached tight ends from 2017-2020.
Caley interviewed for offensive coordinator jobs with the Patriots, Jets and Texans this offseason, when his contract expired in New England. When the Patriots employed O’Brien, the crew handed over Caley for his or her lead offensive teaching place for a second straight offseason. Last yr, head coach Bill Belichick tapped Matt Patricia and Joe Judge to switch former offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels
After the franchise’s worst offensive season in nearly 30 years beneath their collective management, Patricia’s future with the crew is unclear and Judge has been reassigned from his job as quarterbacks coach.
Caley’s places one more dent within the crew’s workers expertise. No offensive coach on the Patriots’ Super Bowl-winning workers of 2018 remains to be with the crew. The Patriots’ most senior assistants on offense are working backs coach Vinnie Sunseri and broad receivers/returners coach Troy Brown.
The Pats additionally employed former Alabama offensive analyst Will Lawing to their workers, a supply confirmed. Lawing has labored beneath O’Brien for his whole profession within the NFL and the foremost faculty stage. Lawing, 37, served as a graduate assistant beneath O’Brien in 2013, then adopted him to the Texans for six-plus seasons and spent the final two at Alabama.
ESPN first reported Lawing’s hiring in New England.
Source: www.bostonherald.com