Patriots fire offensive line coach who is then hired by the Chargers

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I don't get this. This coach had to deal with more O-line injuries than anyone else at his position this season. Belichick must have blamed the massive butt-kicking of Brady by the Broncos solely on him. Or maybe Brady had him fired. Guess the O-line coach was thrown under the bus as the fall guy.
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Report: Patriots fire offensive line coach
Posted by Zac Jackson on January 25, 2016

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The Patriots have fired offensive line coach Dave DeGuglielmo, NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported Monday.

DeGuglielmo joined the Patriots in 2014 following the retirement of longtime Patriots coach Dante Scarnecchia. DeGuglielmo had previously coached with the Dolphins, Giants and Jets.

The Patriots had to shuffle personnel on their offensive line all season due to injuries. The line had played well before Sunday’s AFC Championship Game, when the Broncos sacked Tom Brady four times and recorded 20 quarterback hits, the most by any team in a game this season.
 

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I didn't see a lot of extra protection to help the line, T in particular who were getting beaten like a drum. That is design and play calling. Cant keep Gronk out of the route? I understand. Cant keep the RB in to help protect because of match ups? I understand. Here is the thing. The other team has some guys that can play too. Billicheat was unwilling to change what they were doing and the team, and sadly, the O line coach paid for it.
 

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The Patriots neglect the offensive line in every draft. What were they expecting when they were eventually fielding a bunch of scrubs against elite pass rushers? Can't just use a quick passing scheme to get around this either.
 

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I don't get this. This coach had to deal with more O-line injuries than anyone else at his position this season. Belichick must have blamed the massive butt-kicking of Brady by the Broncos solely on him. Or maybe Brady had him fired. Guess the O-line coach was thrown under the bus as the fall guy.
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http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/01/25/report-patriots-fire-offensive-line-coach/

Report: Patriots fire offensive line coach
Posted by Zac Jackson on January 25, 2016

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The Patriots have fired offensive line coach Dave DeGuglielmo, NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported Monday.

DeGuglielmo joined the Patriots in 2014 following the retirement of longtime Patriots coach Dante Scarnecchia. DeGuglielmo had previously coached with the Dolphins, Giants and Jets.

The Patriots had to shuffle personnel on their offensive line all season due to injuries. The line had played well before Sunday’s AFC Championship Game, when the Broncos sacked Tom Brady four times and recorded 20 quarterback hits, the most by any team in a game this season.

And the goat hunting begins.....

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All I heard all year was how amazing the Pat's Oline was doing with all of these no name / rookie players, and how their nine million (thirty something?) offensive line combinations hadn't impacted their offense this season.

Guess someone had to take the fall....
 

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You might want to read your avatar again and take it to heart.
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Brady, Bruised and Beaten
The Patriots offensive line didn’t do its job in the AFC title game, and there were day-after repercussions in New England. For Denver, it was business as usual for the defense, which turns its focus to Cam Newton
by Robert Klemko


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The Broncos defense left its mark on Patriots quarterback Tom Brady on Sunday.

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DENVER — Gingerly, the 38-year-old quarterback peeled away each layer of defeat. A dirt-stained white jersey, tattered undershirt, bloodied socks. They revealed many of the bruises, cuts and scrapes that come with hitting the deck 20 times before and after throwing a football. His left elbow looked like a Walking Dead makeup job, with bright red spots where the skin was scraped away, and a deep purple bruise the size of an avocado where the forearm meets the elbow. This is how the triple-option quarterback at Navy is supposed to look after football games, not the greatest passer of a generation.

Tom Brady’s face wore no hint of anger or malice, and he fielded no apologies. Not 20 feet away from him, five huge men baring strikingly few bruises dressed side-by-side in silence. The New England Patriots offensive line wasn’t mauled, manhandled or overpowered in the AFC Championship Game; they were simply ignored.

To the three or four rushers the Denver Broncos sent careening towards Tom Brady on any given down, the five men standing in front of them might as well have been rec league hoopers taking on the Golden State Warriors. Sebastian Vollmer, Marcus Cannon and company were deserving of no more respect than a quick step to the inside and a sprint around the corner. And the quarterback was subject to all manner of indignity in a 20-18 loss.

“I tried to lay on him a few times,” said one Broncos rusher after the game. “I tried to rub my nuts on his face.”

Embarrassment. In the end, that’s what this was about. It was about setting flame to the notion that Tom Brady gets the ball out of his hands so quickly that it’s impossible to put hands on him. And if you decide to blitz, said the prognosticators, good luck covering Rob Gronkowski and Julian Edelman.

The Kansas City Chiefs learned as much nine days ago. They accrued all of nine hurries and one hit, preferring to rush three or four big men and cover with eight or seven. Tamba Hali and Dontari Poe were supposed to be good enough to get to Brady in the requisite amount of time. They were not, and the Patriots won 27-20 on the strength of 17 catches by Gronkowski and Edelman.

But after 24 weeks of football, the Broncos and Wade Phillips have stopped comparing themselves to other teams or previous performances.

In the championship, Denver’s top four linemen played 23 fewer snaps combined compared to Week 12, when they pressured Brady 21 times with various blitzes and overloads. Denver won that game in overtime, 30-24, New England’s first loss of the season. This time around, the Broncos went with a rough recitation of the Chiefs game plan and just did it better.

“Brady had to know who we had on this line,” said rush linebacker Shaquil Barrett, “and he knew his line wasn’t very good coming into that game, so he had to expect this.”

Rush linebacker Von Miller dropped into coverage a season-high nine times and even intercepted a pass. When Miller wasn’t in coverage, he and DeMarcus Ware were manning the edge while Derek Wolfe and/or Malik Jackson squeezed the interior line. Throw in the occasional inside linebacker blitz and you get a combined 41 sacks, hits and hurries.

“It was wonderful, matching that coverage up with that rush. That’s our defense at its best,” said Broncos cornerback Aqib Talib. “We weren’t going to show up and do the exact same thing we did during the season. We knew they were game-planning for what we did last time.”

Key personnel changes made it possible.

While the world was factoring Edelman’s absence from that Week 12 contest as one of the biggest reasons the Patriots would get revenge, all of us failed to recognize the other, more glaring non-participant two months ago: The Imperishable DeMarcus Ware. With the 33-year-old Ware sidelined by a lingering back injury that week, the Patriots were able to concentrate on neutralizing Miller.

This time around, with Ware back in the lineup Bill Belichick opted to take his chances spreading the field and asking Brady to make quick throws. Supplementary pass blockers Steven Jackson, Brandon Bolden, James White and Rob Gronkowski were asked to support the starting five only twice; one pass-blocking snap for Jackson, and one for White.

Patriots right tackle Marcus Cannon, left to his own devices, gave up two sacks and seven hurries.

“We knew they were a good defense,” Cannon said. “They got the better of us today but it was a good game.”

So did the offensive line fail the Patriots in this loss?

Cannon paused to glare at the questioner for six very long seconds, about three times as long as Brady had to throw during any one of his 56 pass attempts.

“You know, we played as a unit tonight,” Cannon said, breaking out of the trance. “We’re brothers. We’ll always be brothers. We stick by each other, and I’m proud of everything we did this year. It’s an abrupt end and we didn’t come out the way we wanted to. But one thing I’ll tell you is that I’ll die any day with my brothers on this line.”

About that line. Its leader, offensive line coach Dave DeGuglielmo, reportedly was relieved of his duties Monday, in a move reminiscent of Packers special teams coach Shawn Slocum getting canned after Brandon Bostick's onside kick glitch a year ago. But before you pass blame on DeGuglielmo, don't miss the forest for the trees.

Yes, the line was dealt a devastating blow when starting tackle Nate Solder tore his right bicep in Week 5. But Super Bowl teams are supposed to build depth through the draft, supplemented by free agency. And Patriots coach Bill Belichick is supposed to be the guy prepared for every contingency, the guy thinking three steps ahead of everybody else…

Here’s a list of all the offensive linemen the Patriots have drafted in the first three rounds since 2006:

1. Nate Solder, 1st round, 2011
2. Sebastian Vollmer, 2nd round, 2009

That’s it.

And that's not enough. When your quarterback is Tom Brady, relying on his quick release to get you past the Wares and Millers of the world isn’t just foolish—it’s irresponsible. A quick perusal of AFC East rosters will show you three teams stocking up on fearsome defensive linemen and one team that couldn’t appear to care less. For their part, the Broncos have begun four of their past five drafts by selecting Brady-hunters: Shane Ray in 2015, Sylvester Williams in 2013, Derek Wolfe in 2012 and Von Miller in 2011.

That last guy is the key. Miller is why we’re here, two weeks before the Super Bowl, witnessing a deteriorating Peyton Manning, in what looks like his final season, somehow standing atop the AFC. Von Miller is a 26-year-old savage in fat-rimmed nerd spectacles who speaks in clichés and deals in pain.

“I feel like if I play my game I’m going to get there every time,” Miller said after a 2.5-sack performance. “Fanatical effort and pursuit get it done for me.”

In two weeks, the fanaticism of the Broncos defense—what John Elway is calling the best he’s seen in 30 years—meets a Panthers team with a quarterback who remains unsullied through 18 games. The 19th won’t be easy.
 

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A little odd to me.. usually, a position coach takes the hit IF the HC's job is in jeopardy.

Obviously, that's not the case here.

Is Boudreau safe?
 

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Uh...as the ad says, "There's Hertz, and there's not exactly".

Pats have had probably the most enviable O-line in the last ten years. They lost players - it wasn't (all) coaching.
BTW, Rams did (are doing) something about their lack of offense. Fair's fair.
 

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Hard to follow a legend...Dante Scarnecchia.
 

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Not even Williams?

That's right. No one should be guaranteed a job on a team that hasn't had a winning season since 2003. Not coaches, front office staff, or players. That's a good attitude to have because it leads to self-examination and motivation. :cool:
 

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The Denver defender tried to "rub his nuts in brady's face".

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can you explain what that "problem" was? I'd like to know cause he didn't draft any of those guys and @lordbannon is right, all i heard all year was how amazing the no-name guys were on that o-line but suddenly they are no good in the Championship game?
 

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I'd SERIOUSLY be after that guy to at least interview him.

Our OL has more talent than the NE OL and yet NE often got better results.