“He has a plan the rest of us don’t”: Raiders HC Josh McDaniels warns the league on disparaging Bill Belichick

New England Patriots HC Bill Belichick is nothing short of a magician, there is a reason he is considered the greatest coach of all time, with 6 Super Bowls under his belt and the ability to pick out diamonds such as Tom Brady and other players who were extremely underrated in the NFL draft, he has pretty much done the impossible and made it look easy. Bill can also take the credit for setting up the coaching careers of many of his defensive and offensive coordinators who started from the bottom and have landed Head Coaching gigs across teams in the league.

Josh McDaniels is one such success story, he was appointed by Bill Belichick as the New England Patriots’ offensive coordinator in 2005. This was a move that surprised many considering McDaniels was young and rather inexperienced at his job. Bill also named Matt Patricia, a defensive mastermind, and special teams coordinator Joe Judge as the Patriots’ assistant coaches this offseason. These moves have been questioned by many across the league but Josh McDaniels believes that Belichick thinks different.

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Josh McDaniels was as surprised as the rest of the league when Bill Belichick made him the OC:

Josh McDaniels shares the story of how he became the offensive coordinator for the Patriots and how the move surprised him as it was unexpected, “I was in a position once where I was on the defensive side of the ball for a couple of years, then I moved over and coached quarterbacks for one year. All of a sudden, the next thing I’m doing is being ready to call the offense after being on the offensive side for one year. I remember nobody believing that was really the case,” the Raiders HC shares before the joint practice between his team and New England.

From that point on, there was no turning back, 15 years later McDaniels left to become a Head Coach leaving Belichick looking for his next mastermind OC. Matt Patricia and Joe Judge, the other assistant coaches in New England are not people who would be considered for their respective posts because their last two gigs with the Lions and the Giants were terrible. In their defense, the rosters that they had were not the best either. Josh McDaniels, however, does not doubt these hires for a second.

“I think at the end of the day, Bill has a plan for whatever he wants to do, he has the foresight that the rest of us don’t have. I didn’t have it when he pushed me ahead and helped me do that. I’ve got a lot of friends over there, and I’ve got a lot of people over there that I have a tremendous amount of respect for. Coaching is coaching. You learn something new every day. I don’t have every answer on offense, I don’t have every answer on defense or in the special teams’ area. That’s why you have a staff, so you work together and try to produce the best result you can,” McDaniels concludes.

We are yet to see Belichick’s latest moves pay off, but we can see glimpses here and there such as the touchdown Mac Jones threw to Kendrick Bourne in the final minutes of the game. McDaniels has also seen a lot of familiar concepts from the Patriots’ offense in practice, but considering it is preseason, there really is no need to bring out the new strategies or plays that the team has formulated.

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