HENDERSON, Nev. -- The first time Jimmy Garoppolo met Josh McDaniels? Garoppolo was on a pre-draft visit with the New England Patriots in the spring of 2014 and McDaniels, then the Patriots offensive coordinator, was running the quarterback through his offense on the whiteboard.
"I don't know if it was planned, but I swear he planned it -- Tom Brady walked in," Garoppolo, laughing, said Friday. "And I thought it would throw me off a little bit because I had never met him before, and a little starstruck. But yeah, he walked out, and Josh kept going with the teaching.