The Patriots have cycled through offensive line coaches since the retirement of longtime coach Dante Scarnecchia in 2019.
Cole Popovich, Carmen Bricillo, Matt Patricia, Adrian Klemm, Scott Peters.
And now Doug Marrone.
He is the team’s sixth offensive line coach in six years, but he comes with head coaching experience at the NFL and college level in addition to many different stops as a position coach before joining Mike Vrabel’s staff.
Rob Gronkowski gave his seal of approval of the team’s new coach on his podcast with Julian Edelman, “Dudes on Dudes.”
“I feel like Doug Marrone is kind of a steal for them,” Gronkowski said.
Edelman was recently at Patriots training camp and broke down what he saw during his one day in Foxborough, giving praise to a rookie running back , Marron