Patriots new OC - Alex Van Pelt

[Uptown]

 

[venecol]

Same

qB coach sure, Oc I’m not sold.

He was the OC for Bills and Browns, so has the exp. people were *****ing about.

 

[aluminum seats]

It's sort of hard to decipher what was going on in Cleveland. On the plus side, they had four quarterbacks and finished with an 11-6 record, that's good. But he was fired and they wanted a shake up, presumably to get more out of Watson. But to me the bigger question is what kind of offensive coordinator doesn't call the plays? What the hell is he doing if he's not calling the plays. So I have no idea

 

[festy1986]

I don't even have any words.

I'm glad we fired Bill Belichick for this new regime.

Just amazing

 

[Give Kraft A Hand]

He was the OC for Bills and Browns, so has the exp. people were *****ing about.

Didn't he also get fired by both teams?

 

[dliverey44]

Van Pelt was a QB for the Bills in the 90's, so he can piss off. lol

 

[Uptown]

 

[Ross12]

I love this choice! Tons of experience, a west coast system, former QB, longtime QB coach, and got a ton of offense out of a revolving door of QBs last year including the corpse of Joe Flacco. Worked with Aaron Rodgers during his prime as his QB coach. There’s a lot to like here. Don’t know why people are so damn whiny. If they hired some 32 year old with no experience that would’ve been wrong too.

 

[Joey007]

d%#*!@t, we hired Alex Jones.

 

[EMpats]

Not sure I understand the hatred for this move.

-west coast offense will be much more QB and WR friendly.
-Extensive QB experience to develop a young guy. Players like him too.

This is a much better hire than Caley, who has never coached quarterbacks and mostly would run McDaniels system.

 

[festy1986]

Andrew needs to decide if he wants to have credibility and to be someone who's looked at who has any idea what he's talking about or if he just wants to continue to be a mouthpiece for someone.

 

[venecol]

I like the posters who think Bill sucked and can look at the new coaching staff and think anything positive.

Lol

 

[festy1986]

I love this choice! Tons of experience, a west coast system, former QB, longtime QB coach, and got a ton of offense out of a revolving door of QBs last year including the corpse of Joe Flacco. Worked with Aaron Rodgers during his prime as his QB coach. There’s a lot to like here. Don’t know why people are so damn whiny. If they hired some 32 year old with no experience that would’ve been wrong too.

Did you see what he was doing over there in Cleveland before flaco showed up?

 

[dliverey44]

People Kill me, Caley is a horrible choice. HE HAS NO EXPERIENCE!!!!

Alex Van Pelt with multiple years of experience as OC and QB coach hired.... NO!!!! do the Pats even know what they're doing?????????

 

[Ross12]

I was confused why they put the Special Teams Coordinator as the biggest picture and at the top - seemed like an odd choice - but considering all 3 guys’ relative attractiveness levels, it ends up making sense.

 

[venecol]

A few weeks ago, I was reading about how the Eagles went from looking like the best team in football to sucking. An article I read stated that Belichick provided the league a blue print of how to defend their offense from when the Patriots played them earlier in the season. He had a terrible year, but still destroyed the best team in football.

So we’ve gone from the league’s greatest strategy mastermind and overall greatest coach to this all star cast of characters.

That would really make Bowles a genius since he actually destroyed Eagles in the WC.

 

[Joey007]

I’m grading this as a C.

This could be much worse. This is much better than hiring back McDaniels, keeping BOB, or hiring Getsy.

But definitely not exactly inspiring either. He’s had very good success as a QB coach. Pretty middling success as an OC. Not bad, at least.

 

[signbabybrady]

He was the OC for Bills and Browns, so has the exp. people were *****ing about.

I think when people said they wanted experience they were hoping for someone who maybe had been a HC before or who had at least been calling plays the last few years. But I guess when you hire a HC who never was a coordinator this is par for the course.

 

[UGAPatsfan]

I’m actually ok with this hire…played in the league, been around some decent offenses, and very unlikely to leave for a HC gig which is an underrated thing.

 

[venecol]

Didn't he also get fired by both teams?

The Bills were a dreadful team back then. The entire coaching staff got fired.