When Josh McDaniels left the New England Patriots earlier this offseason to take over as head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, he took some of his former colleagues with him. Three members of the Patriots’ offensive staff joined the team’s ex-coordinator in Las Vegas.
McDaniels poaching assistants was not unsurprising, but the comparatively high number of people he took with him raised some eyebrows around the New England media. After all, head coach Bill Belichick had previously spoken negatively about that practice. So, why would this be any different from his perspective?
Turns out, it was.