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Former Super Bowl Champ Claims Patriots Coaching Staff Is On Edge

Bonisiwe Shabane
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former super bowl champ claims patriots coaching staff is on edge

Former New England Patriots safety Devin McCourty doesn't believe the coaching staff feels like their jobs are automatically safe. The 2024 season has not gone according to plan for the Patriots' organization, as they currently sit with a 3-13 record and the No. 1 overall pick of the 2025 NFL draft, if the season ended today. Jerod Mayo has struggled in his first year as the Patriots head coach, along with members of his coaching staff. "Just from talking to those guys, I do feel like they feel they're coaching to make sure that they're back," McCourty said on "Up & Adams." "I don't think there's this feeling of, 'Hey,... We're good.' I think there is a little bit of a sense of urgency and a edge from everybody there."

McCourty ultimately expects Mayo to get another shot in New England in 2025, but he also knows how unpredictable things can be in the NFL. Former New England Patriots safety Devin McCourty doesn’t believe the coaching staff feels like their jobs are automatically safe. The 2024 season has not gone according to plan for the Patriots’ organization, as they currently sit with a 3-13 record and the No. 1 overall pick of the 2025 NFL draft, if the season ended today. Jerod Mayo has struggled in his first year as the Patriots head coach, along with members of his coaching staff. “Just from talking to those guys, I do feel like they feel they’re coaching to make sure that they’re back,” McCourty said on “Up & Adams.” “I don’t think there’s this feeling of, ‘Hey,...

We’re good.’ I think there is a little bit of a sense of urgency and a edge from everybody there.” McCourty ultimately expects Mayo to get another shot in New England in 2025, but he also knows how unpredictable things can be in the NFL. Could a former member of the New England Patriots defense be joining the coaching staff soon? Former safety Patrick Chung may have given an indirect hint in a recent interview. Chung was a staple on the team’s defense for many years. He played for New England from 2009-2012 and then again from 2014-2019.

During his 10-year run in New England, he played in 141 games and started in 112 of them. He tallied 719 combined tackles, 4.5 sacks, 54 pass deflections and 11 interceptions with the Patriots. It's safe to say Chung knows the ins and outs of the Patriots' organization. Kay Adams asked him on the "Up & Adams Show" if he would return to Gillette Stadium in a coaching role. Although he didn’t exactly answer the question, he didn’t seem to rule out the possibility, either. The Patriots made the swift decision to move on from now-former head coach Jerod Mayo following a season-ending win over the Buffalo Bills on Sunday.

New England was clearly headed in the wrong direction under his leadership, and once the move was officially made, those within the building felt empowered to discuss exactly what went wrong — anonymously, of... Boston Sports Journal’s Mike Giardi spoke to people in and around the building regarding the change, with certain players revealing that the on-field edge they were previously used to having no longer was there. “It became more about looking myself in the mirror and the guys in my room and huddle and saying ‘I’m leaving it out here for you.’ Because I never believed we had an edge... Mayo’s tenure obviously didn’t provide the same level of on-field coaching as Bill Belichick’s, but there’s also a sense that he couldn’t find the right balance to the off-field aspects, either. The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in Foxborough, Massachusetts. They are a member of the East Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL).

The team began as the Boston Patriots in the American Football League, a league which merged with the National Football League before the 1970 season.[1] There have been 16 head coaches for the Patriots franchise. Lou Saban became the first coach of the Patriots in 1960, although he was fired part way through their second season.[2] The 16th and current head coach is Mike Vrabel, who was hired on... He is the second coach in the club's history to have played for the team (2001–2008)[3] Longtime head coach Bill Belichick led the team for more regular season games (387), post-season games (41) and... His 266 wins with the Patriots are far and away the most in franchise history, more than five times those of runner-up Mike Holovak. Belichick also led the team to nine of their eleven Super Bowl appearances, winning six of them.

Holovak, Raymond Berry and Bill Parcells all led the Patriots to league championship games, with only one (Holovak) failing to reach the Super Bowl. Five Patriots head coaches, Holovak, Chuck Fairbanks, Berry, Parcells, and Belichick, have been named coach of the year by at least one major news organization. Additionally, Raymond Berry and Bill Parcells are members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, with Berry being inducted in 1973, and Parcells in 2013.[4][5] Twice in Patriots history there were "interim" head coaches. In 1972, John Mazur resigned with five games left in the season.[6] Phil Bengtson was named as the interim head coach for the rest of the season, during which he only won one game,... In 1978, head coach Fairbanks secretly made a deal to leave the team to coach the University of Colorado Buffaloes while he was still coaching the Patriots.

Team owner Billy Sullivan suspended Fairbanks for the final game of the regular season, stating "You cannot serve two masters," and Ron Erhardt and Hank Bullough took co-head coaching responsibilities for that game.[7] Fairbanks... Since Dick MacPherson, the Patriots have had only 5 coaches in 33 seasons. Sporting News NFL Coach of the Year (1976) Pro Football Weekly NFL Coach of the Year (1994) Maxwell Football Club NFL Coach of the Year (1994) UPI NFL Coach of the Year (1994) AFC Championship (1996) Under Mike Vrabel, New England’s coaching staff is going to look a whole lot different than it did in 2024. A handful of assistants already know they won’t be back, offensive coordinator interviews have begun, and things are beginning to take shape.

Here’s a tracker with all of Vrabel’s moves thus far: Mike Vrabel is entrusting a familiar face with the keys to the Patriots offense. Josh McDaniels is joining Vrabel’s coaching staff as New England’s offensive coordinator, according to multiple sources. A six-time Super Bowl champion as an assistant coach, McDaniels is best known as Bill Belichick’s longtime offensive playcaller.

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