Following the mutual parting of ways with long-time Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, New England will head into this season with a coaching staff full of new hires and promotions. Let's start by taking a look at the experience of head coach Jerod Mayo, and his offensive coaching staff.
Head Coach: Jerod Mayo
Mayo was hired as head coach soon after the announcement of Belichick's departure. Despite beginning his coaching career in just 2019, Mayo's first head coaching interviews came as early as 2022 with the Broncos and Eagles, before once again interviewing with the Panthers in 2023. A top-10 pick in 2008, the former inside linebacker quickly rose to stardom as the 2008 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year, the 2010 NFL tackles leader. and a seven-time team captain with the Patriots.
Following the 2022-23 season, Mayo reportedly restructured his coaching contract and had a succession clause put in place, which allowed him to become the Patriots head coach without fulfilling the typical NFL requirement of a hiring process which includes interviews with multiple candidates. Mayo was the Patriots inside linebackers coach from 2019-2023 and served as an unofficial co-defensive coordinator with Steve Belichick in recent years.
Patriots Head Coach Jerod Mayo, Photo by Fred Kfoury III/Icon Sportswire
Offensive Coordinator: Alex Van Pelt
Van Pelt was hired by the Patriots following a long hiring process for the team's offensive coordinator position. Van Pelt is a former NFL quarterback who was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1993 and spent the majority of his career as a Buffalo Bill (1994-2003). Afterward, he spent time with the Bills from 2006-2009, including working that final year as an offensive coordinator.
Most recently, Van Pelt was the quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator for the Cleveland Browns before surprisingly being fired despite Cleveland making the playoffs without their starting quarterback and star running back. With the expectation that Van Pelt will be the Patriots offensive play-caller this season, it will be his first time calling plays in the NFL as he previously did not with the Bills and Browns.
Other coaching experience for Van Pelt includes in the NFL Europe quarterbacks coach for the Frankfurt Galaxy, a quarterbacks coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a running backs and quarterbacks coach for the Green Bay Packers, and as the quarterbacks coach for the Cleveland Browns.
Senior Offensive Assistant: Ben McAdoo
A former offensive coordinator and head coach, McAdoo brings experience to the offense as an impressive offensive mind and quarterback guru. McAdoo's first coaching job came as a high school assistant coach in 1996, with his first collegiate job being as a graduate assistant for Michigan State before coaching Fairfield's offensive line and tight ends, and then working again as a graduate assistant for Pitt.
McAdoo bounced around the league for his first three years as a coach in the NFL, beginning as an offensive quality coach for the New Orleans Saints in 2004, transitioning to an assistant offensive line coach with the 49ers in the next season, before finding his space in Green Bay where he began as a tight ends coach in 2006. Staying in Green Bay until 2013, McAdoo was Super Bowl 45 Champion and went from coaching tight ends to quarterbacks in 2012.
Additionally, McAdoo coached the New York Giants from 2014 to 2017, spending his first two seasons there as an offensive coordinator and his final two seasons as the team's head coach. McAdoo's previous three jobs each were for one year, spending a season with the Jaguars as a quarterbacks coach, a year as a consultant for the Cowboys, and with the Panthers as an offensive coordinator in 2022.
Offensive Coaching Assistant: Michael McCarthy
Beginning his coaching career at The College of New Jersey in 2009, McCarthy has spent the majority of his career as an offensive line coach. After spending 2010 and 2011 as a video director for Western Michigan, McCarthy got back into coaching at Tulane for two seasons before becoming a tight ends coach with North Carolina Central.
In 2015, McCarthy was the offensive quality control coach for the Cleveland Browns, a role that he maintained in 2016 and 2017 with the Detroit Lions, where he also served as an assistant offensive line coach.
McCarthy worked at Rutgers in 2018 as an offensive assistant, working primarily with the offensive coordinator and the team's quarterbacks. His most recent five seasons all came at Brown University as an offensive line coach.
Offensive Coaching Assistant: Omar Young
Young began coaching at De Anza College in 2009 and with Minnesota State Moorhead University in 2010 before working as the director of quality control for the University of Colorado in 2013 and 2014.
Young's first experience working in the NFL came in 2015 as an offensive intern with the Cleveland Browns before transitioning back into college football to coach at the University of South Carolina in 2016. Afterwards, he worked in the NFL once again from
2017-2018 with the Green Bay Packers as an offensive quality control coach. From 2019 to 2021, Young coached college football at Eastern Illinois University, working as the team's running backs coach in 2019 and as a co-special teams coordinator for the following two seasons.
Most recently, Young spent time with the Chicago Bears working in multiple different positions. In 2022, he worked as an offensive quality control coach, and spent the next season as the team's wide receivers coach and assistant quarterbacks coach.
Quarterbacks Coach: T.C. McCartney
A former scout team quarterback at LSU, McCartney began his coaching career there in 2011 as a graduate assistant and worked the same role at Colorado in 2012 and 2013. His first NFL coaching job came with the Cleveland Browns for one season in 2014 as an offensive assistant. In 2015, McCartney similarly worked as an offensive assistant with the San Francisco 49ers while also having a role as a quality control coach.
After spending another season in 2016 at LSU - once again as a graduate assistant - McCartney worked again in the NFL with the 49ers in 2017 and 2018, working the same responsibilities as he did with the team in 2015.
In 2019, McCartney worked as a quarterbacks coach with the Denver Broncos for a season. Afterward, McCartney worked with current Patriots offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelt from 2020-2023 as a Cleveland Brown. In his first two seasons in Cleveland, McCartney worked as an offensive assistant and worked as a tight ends coach in the following two seasons.
Assistant Quarterbacks Coach: Evan Rothstein
Rothstein began coaching in 2006 while attending SUNY Cortland, working there from 2006-2009 as a quality control coach, student assistant coach, and director of video operations. After interning with Syracuse video operations in the fall of 2009, Rothstein returned to SUNY Cortland as the team's offensive line coach during the spring of 2010 before joining Syracuse's coaching staff as an offensive line quality coach from 2010-2011.
Rothstein's first NFL coaching job was with the Detroit Lions in 2012, working there until 2020. Rothstein began by working as the special teams quality control coach for two seasons, then as a special projects coach for a year. From 2015-2017, Rothstein worked as an offensive assistant while simultaneously having a role in the team's research and analysis. In Rothstein's next seasons with the Lions, he worked with the coaching staff's weekly preparations for gameday opponents.
Heading into his fourth season with the Patriots, Rothstein worked in three different roles through his first three seasons with the team. In his first year, he worked in a research and analysis role, worked as an offensive assistant in his second year, and as an assistant quarterbacks coach in his third season with the organization.
Running Backs Coach: Taylor Embree
In college, Embree played wide receiver for UCLA for four years and had a brief stint with the San Diego Chargers during the preseason after signing as an undrafted free agent in 2012. Embree began coaching soon after, first working at UNLV as a graduate assistant in 2012 before working the same job at his alma mater in 2013 and 2014.
Embree's first coaching job in the NFL came in 2016 with the Kansas City Chiefs as a defensive assistant, his only year working as a defensive coach. From 2017-2019, Embree worked with the San Francisco 49ers as an offensive quality control coach. His first job as a positional coach came the next season, working with tight ends at Colorado in 2020.
Returning to the NFL, Embree was the running backs coach with the New York Jets from 2021-2023, playing a role in developing star running back Breece Hall. After it was announced that he would not be returning to the Jets in 2024, Embree was hired by the Patriots to coach the same role that he did with New England's division rival.
Tight Ends Coach: Bob Bicknell
Bicknell is a Massachusetts native, growing up in Holliston and playing tight end for Boston College. Bicknell stayed in Boston for his first coaching job, working at Boston University as a safeties coach in 1993, a running backs coach in 1994, and a linebackers coach from 1995-1997. In 1998, Bicknell coached for the NFL Europe's Frankfurt Galaxy as a defensive line coach, and switched sides to the offensive line for the next season.
Staying in the NFL Europe, Bicknell coached with the Berlin Thunder beginning in 2000 as an offensive line coach, then additionally was the team's offensive coordinator from
2001-2003. From 2004-2005, Bicknell stayed in the NFL Europe working as an offensive coordinator and offensive line coach for the Cologne Centurions.
Bicknell returned to college football as the offensive line coach for Temple in 2006. His first NFL coaching job was with the Kansas City Chiefs, working as the assistant offensive line coach in 2007 and being promoted to the offensive line coach in 2008. Bicknell then worked with tight ends, first with the Chiefs in 2009 before doing so in 2010 and 2011 with the Buffalo Bills.
In 2012, Bicknell once again switched the position group he coached, this time working with wide receivers. His first season doing so came with the Buffalo Bills, before coaching receivers for the Philadelphia Eagles from 2013-2015. Bicknell's next job came with the San Francisco 49ers in 2016 once again coaching receivers. In his first time coaching in college since the 2006 season, Bicknell worked as Baylor's wide receivers coach in 2017, then returned to the NFL by coaching wide receivers with the Cincinnati Bengals from 2018-2020. Most recently, Bicknell has worked with the New Orleans Saints as a senior offensive assistant from 2022-2023.
Wide Receivers Coach: Tyler Hughes
Hughes began coaching at his alma mater, Snow College, as a wide receivers and tight ends coach in 2004. Soon after, Hughes was promoted to offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, a role he had from 2005-2010. Hughes was the team's head coach in 2011 and 2012, earning the Western States Football League Coach of the Year in 2012.
Hughes' next season came with the Ohio State Buckeyes, where he was a quality control assistant. From 2014-2016, he was the head coach of Minot State, a Division II college. Hughes then coached at Bountiful High School for two seasons, beginning in 2018.
In 2020, Hughes worked in the NFL for the first time, working as an offensive assistant with the Patriots for three seasons. In 2023, he spent the season as an offensive analyst for the University of Washington Huskies, before returning to New England to be the Patriots wide receivers coach for the upcoming season.
Assistant Wide Receivers Coach: Tiquan Underwood
Playing wide receiver for Rutgers and standing out as a star, Underwood was a team captain for the Scarlet Knights and drafted into the NFL in 2009 by the Jacksonville Jaguars, playing there for two seasons. In 2011, Underwood played for the Patriots, and spent two seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 2012-2013. His last NFL stint as a player came in the 2014 pre-season, which he spent with the Carolina Panthers. Underwood then played in the Canadian Football League on the Hamilton Tiger-Cats from 2015-2016, and the Montreal Alouettes from 2016-2017.
Underwood's first coaching job came with Lafayette in 2018, where he served as the team's wide receivers coach. After only spending a year with Lafayette, Underwood found his first NFL coaching job with the Miami Dolphins, where he worked as an offensive quality control coach. In the following two seasons, Underwood coached for his alma mater as a wide receivers coach.
In 2022, Underwood was hired by Pitt, keeping his same title as wide receivers coach and also working as the team's passing game coordinator. Underwood worked for Pitt for two seasons before returning to the NFL, earning a job as the Patriots assistant wide receivers coach.
Offensive Line Coach: Scott Peters
After earning two first-team All-Pac-10 selections while playing college football at Arizona State, Peters began his NFL career as an interior offensive lineman in 2002 for the Philadelphia Eagles. A former fourth-round draft selection, Peters bounced around the league in his seven-year career, spending time with the New York Giants (2003-2004), San Francisco 49ers (2004), Carolina Panthers (2005-2006), and Arizona Cardinals (2007-2008).
Peters began coaching in 2020, where he worked with the Cleveland Browns alongside current Patriots offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelt. Peters was the Browns assistant offensive line coach from 2020-2023 before being hired by the Patriots as the team's offensive line coach.
Assistant Offensive Line Coach: Robert Kugler
Kugler played college football for the Purdue Boilermakers from 2012-2015 before being spending the 2016 preseason with the Buffalo Bills as an undrafted free agent. Kugler's first coaching job came at UTEP, where he worked as a graduate assistant and tight ends coach in 2017. For the following two seasons, Kugler was a graduate assistant at the University of Washington. Afterwards, Kugler worked as the offensive quality control coach for Appalachian State.
Kugler's first season as an NFL coach was in 2021 for the Houston Texans, where he worked as an assistant offensive line coach. He then spent the next two seasons with the Carolina Panthers under the same role. He now joins the Patriots coaching staff with the same coaching title.
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