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Plenty of coaches spent time around three-time NFL MVP Tom Brady across his 20 seasons with the New England Patriots, but few were around the future Hall of Fame quarterback more than Josh McDaniels, who was the team’s offensive coordinator in 11 of Brady’s 20 seasons with the team.
The former Patriots offensive playcaller discussed what his day-to-day relationship with Brady, now the lead NFL analyst for FOX Sports, was like on Wednesday’s edition of “The Herd.”
“The more Tom played, the more he understood what he liked and what he didn’t like,” McDaniels said. “It certainly became a huge back-and-forth for us. I have emails that are pages and pages long of things that he liked and things that he didn’t like.
“I think that’s what you have to do nowadays is when the quarterback has thoughts and opinions and ideas of what he feels good about, you certainly have to take all that in, and then try to figure out exactly what’s the right blend of things that fit that week against that team. And Tommy was not shy about giving input on those kinds of things, and he earned every bit of it. We usually would be emailing on Monday, Tuesday, and then, obviously, we’d practice Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and try to nail it down. But we were emailing on Friday night and Saturday morning, as well, to try to finalize the game plan.”
While that’s hardly the norm in the NFL, McDaniels said certain quarterbacks have earned the right to have an active role in strategy, and the former Denver Broncos and Las Vegas Raiders head coach includes several current quarterbacks in that tier.
“I just think that when you have a guy like him [Brady], Pat Mahomes, [Josh] Allen, Lamar [Jackson], these guys that have certainly had a tremendous amount of individual success, team success, they’ve earned the right to give you their input, and you need to take that input in and try to figure out how to utilize it the best way.”
Josh McDaniels on coaching Tom Brady in New England
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