For those of you who couldn't take the suspense, it's official. Josh McDaniels will take over as offensive coordinator of the Patriots."It's Josh," Patriots coach Bill Belichick told the media Monday when asked about the partially-vacant position.
This is unofficially old news, as the Patriots hired McDaniels as an offensive assistant at the beginning of the playoffs, a couple days after then-offensive coordinator Bill O'Brien accepted the head coaching job at Penn State.
It was heavily-implied and easily-assumed that McDaniels would return to his Patriots offensive play-calling digs once the season was over.
McDaniels was the Patriots' offensive coordinator from 2006 to 2008. He was the team's quarterbacks coach before that. McDaniels spent a year and a half as the Broncos head coach before taking the Rams' offensive coordinator gig.
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