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Following the exit of four assistant coaches and Scott Pioli the vice president of players’ personnel, the England patriots are involved in a process of recruiting a new squad.
The assistant coach Shane Waldron has been promoted as tight ends coach. The assistant director for college of scouting Jonathan Robinson was also promoted to the post of director, a post that had been vacant since January 2008, since the departure of Thomas Dirmitoff who left for a post of general manager in the falcons.
Waldron becomes the second assistant coach to be appointed during this off season by Coach Bill Belichick. He joined the England Patriots the previous season after working as an offensive graduate assistant at Notre Dame for a period of three seasons, where he worked under former Patriots offensive coordinator Charlie Weis.
Wide receivers Coach Bill O’Brien has also been promoted to quarterbacks coach replacing offensive coordinator coach Josh McDaniel’s, who left for a position as head coach to the Broncos.
Head coach Belichick also replaced special teams coach Brad Seely with Scott O'Brien, a former special teams coach in Cleveland, and Dom Capers with Boyer, a move seen outside as promoting those within or those he has ever worked with before. Monti Ossenfort who is making his eighth come back season in NFL and a 5th with the patriots was also given the position of a national scout.
There is also news on England patriots signing a contract with franchised QB Matt Cassel which will mean that Tom Brandy stays on bench following his knee surgery rehabilitation. Cassel remains the most valuable in market for now as long as Kurt Warner remains in Arizona which is expected to happen.
The patriots set a record of 11-5 the past season thanks to Cassel who came to their rescue after Tom Brady suffered a knee injury during the first week of the season. In December, England missed the playoffs after losing 4-0 making the ravens and the dolphins qualify.
With most coaching positions filled up, the patriots now have to concentrate on quarterback situation which is very vital to the team. They also have to make the difficult decision of using Cassel basing on Brady’s health condition, and make up their mind if they are willing to pay him the expensive amount a franchised player gets or sell him to another team and make money out of that move. Cassel is expected to get 14 million dollars if the patriots decide to use him.
However it will be hard for the patriots to keep both Cassel and Brady in the team bearing in mind that NFL does not permit any team to spend money any how which makes it impossible to keep the best players on the field.
For a long time the patriots have not been successful in getting a replacement on the free agent market which made them lose many touch down passes last season. The patriots still remain with 18 unrestricted free agents of which they have to choose from.
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