Adam Gase may quickly have employment within the NFL once more.
The previous Jets head coach’s title “retains popping up” for the Patriots’ offensive coordinator job, in line with NFL Community’s Mike Giardi. Gase, who was fired after going 2-14 with the Jets in 2020, ascended to the league’s head teaching ranks after a profitable run as Peyton Manning’s offensive coordinator in Denver, and a yr in the identical function with the Bears.
Issues didn’t go so properly for Gase with the Jets, nonetheless. His obsessiveness, initially bought as endearing, rapidly grew to become a meme — together with pictures that confirmed him wide-eyed, and searching continuously stunned.
In his first yr, although, the Jets have been an affordable sufficient 7-9. Issues fell aside in 2020 because it grew to become apparent that Sam Darnold wasn’t a franchise quarterback, and Gase wasn’t the coach to show him into one.
A franchise-record 13-game dropping streak sealed Gase’s destiny in New York, although two wins on the finish of the yr value them the No. 1 draft choose. Le’Veon Bell and Jamal Adams, two gamers as soon as seen as franchise cornerstones, left on poor phrases — a difficulty attributed to the pinnacle coach.
After being fired, Gase has been out of soccer for the final yr.
In New England, he could be working with Mac Jones, a extra confirmed expertise, and Gase’s system has had success when he’s been a coordinator. Nonetheless, adjusting to life with out longtime coordinator Josh McDaniels, who was just lately named the Raiders’ head coach, may very well be robust for the Patriots.
Alabama offensive coordinator Invoice O’Brien, who held the Patriots’ coordinator job the final time McDaniels left, has additionally been introduced up as a candidate. Per Giardi, if New England decides to rent internally, it may very well be with out an official change in title.
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