High-ranking member of Patriots reportedly wants Bill O'Brien as offensive coordinator

Yes Lord

One bum out and the second one shortly to follow.

The great thing is that it doesn't matter. He's already gone: BoB's contract has expired.

Saban offloading Golding (who was under contract for 1 more year) to Ole Miss shows us that Saban means business. No way he's going to offer BoB a new deal.

Guess that means Mac Jones needs to hope for a trade.

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High-ranking member of Patriots reportedly wants Bill O'Brien as offensive coordinator

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What a coincidence. Me too!

Agree. He’s had some good stints but didn’t mesh with Bryce’s skill set. Not awful at all.

Show me championships. He is a Mark Richt of DCs....His time at Alabama was not to Alabama standards. So bottomline, do you want to keep him? Hell no! So nothing else matters.

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He’s had some good stints but didn’t mesh with Bryce’s skill set

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Bryce won the Heisman with O'Brien as his OC.

Don't get me wrong... I'll be glad when he's replaced, but to the outside world who hasn't watched every Bama game, both he and Golding look like they have great resume enhancers from their time at Bama.

Like anyone really thinks Golding made the choice to go to Oxford all on his own like they're reporting LOL.

True...but it still goes on O'Brien's resume...justified or not. Just like Golding had "top 20" defenses as DC.

The eye test tells you more than the stats. O'Brien leaving will be a positive, but the real move that was a must have was Golding "deciding" to go to Ole Miss.

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Simply not true.

- NE - Brady had 2 of his three best years as a Patriot during OB's three years as OC.

- PSU - shocked the football world in the aftermath of the Sandusky scandal by turning PSU into a decent-good team and Matt McGloin from someone who looked like a bad HS QB into a decent QB as the PSU HC - was an NFL backup for several years. OB won the Paul Bryant National Coach of the Year.

- Houston - won 4 division titles in 6 years, two of those titles were with Tom Savage/Case Keenum/Brock OSweiler as QB. Bryce Young, DeShaun Watson and Brady all thanked and praised him for all that they learned about playing QB from him. He became GM his last year or two and traded Hopkins for David Johnson and a 2nd and 4th round pick. All-time bad trade but he was a successful HC there.

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Simply not true.

He was only OC at New England a season and a half. Brady and numerous former players have discussed in interviews that they had to change 75-80% of what he called to be successful.

His numbers at Penn St are highly overrated when you look at each game and who they played.

When he was running the offense with the Texans, their offense was above middle of the NFL only one season and was in the bottom half in the rest.

It became pretty clear that Bryce's ability to improvise, Jameson and Metch had more to do with Bryce's Heisman and the team's offensive success.

He did have some success early on with the Texans but it wasn't based on his offensive planning and play calling. By the end, a lot of the players hated him and even Watt tried to whip his arse in practice. He was a terrible GM but if he had been a good coach they would have kept him as head coach and moved someone else into the GM position. They wanted him away from the team entirely.
The owner dumped Bill after 2020 in an attempt to improve the toxicity on the team and keep Watt. It was so bad, Watt left anyway. And as we can see today, Houston has never recovered from what Bill did.

Those QBs you said praised him are still playing and aren't going to trash a coach publicly.

Shouldn't have been hired to start with.

LINK ]Patriots Rumors: Why Bill O’Brien ‘Not Gung-Ho’ About OC Job (NESN)

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Bill O’Brien seems like a perfect fit for the Patriots, but does he see it that way?

O’Brien, who spent one season as New England’s offensive coordinator in 2011, reportedly is a leading candidate for the Patriots’ OC vacancy. And with Bill Belichick set to interview coaches for the role this week, it might not be long before O’Brien is announced as Matt Patricia’s replacement.

However, Boston Sports Journal’s Greg Bedard on Saturday indicated that O’Brien, who spent the last two seasons with Alabama, might not be sold on a return to Foxboro.

“He checks all the boxes — knows the system, can coach the QB, has a relationship with (Mac) Jones, is not an outsider — and has probably learned a few new-age tricks in the college game,” Bedard wrote. “Last I heard, and this can change as quickly as the Patriots’ policy on commenting on contracts, he was not gung-ho about this gig due to the lack in clarity about the setup. If Belichick told O’Brien he had autonomy, including over assistants, that might make it more attractive.”

Whether Belichick would be willing to give O’Brien the power he reportedly wants is something only he knows. That said, Thursday night’s unprecedented statement released by the Patriots suggests team owner Robert Kraft might be pulling rank after yet another disappointing season in New England.

If Kraft wants O’Brien, and all it will take for a reunion is to give O’Brien some control over his staff, there might not be anything that Belichick can do about it. That’s just pure speculation, though.

Thankfully, this week should provide plenty of news on one of the more fascinating Patriots storylines in recent memory.

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