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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.I don't think he was particularly missed, like not a particularly great fit.
Do you have any evidence for this?
I thought it sounded like an interesting idea. BB, as we now know, is very conservative when it comes to recruiting coaches from outside the existing ladder (Dean Pees is the only significant recent example that comes to mind) but the Patriots have one of the smallest coaching staffs in the NFL. Unless there was some problem with Hufnagel, why not? -- even when Charlie was OC we also had a quarterbacks coach.
I think all this is the career of Chris Palmer, not John HufnagelThink it was Holley at one point and others as I vaguely recall saying Hufnagel never really found his niche on this staff. His history as a QB guru is pretty sketchy - Couch in Cleveland was handed to him out of the #1 draft slot, not that everything that went wrong there can be tied to poor development solely on the part of the QB coach, then after getting axed he did a year with Peyton although he was already established and in his 4th season and at the end of the year Mora got canned (playoffs???!!!..., then he coached Brunnel for two years with the JAGS under Coughlin