FOXBORO — The Patriots’ offensive teaching employees is crammed with assistants who’re in all probability overqualified for his or her positions.
A type of assistants is passing sport coordinator/tight ends coach Thomas Brown, who has been an offensive coordinator and interim head coach in earlier stops.
Brown was included on NFL media’s head coaching candidates record Thursday.
The 39-year-old assistant is targeted on the here-and-now, but in addition stated changing into a head coach is an eventual aim.
“It’s all the time humbling and intensely appreciative to have your identify talked about in any constructive gentle,” Brown stated Thursday. “Additionally simply implies that you’re in all probability part of a profitable group and staff. I believe with regards to gamers and coaches, when a staff has success, you’ve an opportunity to get some particular person highlights.
“My focus all the time has and can stay on how will we proceed to enhance week in and week out? As a result of I’m a agency believer in being the place your ft are. So something that’s future-based will all the time be relying on the way you maximize the time for the day. And time is essentially the most precious useful resource that we have now, and we oftentimes take it without any consideration. So I’m simply attempting to maximise each alternative every single day and preserve making these guys higher.”
Brown started final season because the Bears’ passing sport coordinator. He was promoted to offensive coordinator after Shane Waldron was fired after which promoted once more to interim head coach after Matt Eberflus was fired.
He stated concerning the expertise that it was “a variety of totally different feelings for quite a lot of totally different causes.”
