Whatever Josh McDaniels’ faults were in his two stints as a head coach, you can’t deny the former Patriots offensive coordinator could scheme up some offensive football.
In fact, as Brian Hoyer and David Andrews tell it on “The Quick Snap” podcast, New England might not have won its latest Super Bowl championship in the 2018-19 season without McDaniels’s adaptability against ex-LA Rams defensive coordinator Wade Phillips in the big game.
“[Phillips] basically said, “Look, if we do what we’ve done all year, the Patriots are gonna beat us,” Hoyer explained. “What they did is they completely shifted their defensive philosophy.