Report: Patriots interviewing Bills assistant Ryan Wendell for offensive line coach job

Posted by Charean Williams on January 27, 2023, 6:02 PM EST
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The Patriots will interview Bills assistant coach Ryan Wendell for their vacant offensive line position, Albert Breer of SI.com reports.

The team is flying Wendell to Las Vegas, where the Patriots’ staff is coaching in the East-West Shrine Game.

Wendell played in New England from 2008-15 during Patriots offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien’s first stint in Foxboro.

Oregon run game coordinator Adrian Klemm, another candidate for the job, also is expected to conduct his interview for the job in Las Vegas, per Breer.

Wendell just completed his third season as the Bills assistant offensive line coach. He began his coaching career in 2019 as a coaching assistant with the Bills.

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24 responses to “Report: Patriots interviewing Bills assistant Ryan Wendell for offensive line coach job”

  4. LOL!!!!

    I can’t stop laughing!! Is this a joke? Bwahahahahaha!!!!!

    Last place on the way!

  5. Last place? They were 30 minutes away from the playoffs with the most dysfunctional offensive staff ever. Mac will fly again.

  6. The Pats offensive coaching was a dysfunctional mess. Nothing, compared to shatners toupee though.

  7. mainewoodchopper says:
    January 27, 2023 at 6:43 pm
    Last place? They were 30 minutes away from the playoffs with the most dysfunctional offensive staff ever. Mac will fly again.

    21Rate This

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    They are fearful what this all means.

  9. Shatners toupee is straight fire. Pats fans are a special type of delusional. Your time is past…and a young TB ain’t walking thru the door. Your the 4th best team in the east.

  10. Belichick completely threw away last year out of laziness. I have all the respect in the world for Belichick’s accomplishments. I have absolutely no use for the cherry picking nonsense about BB’s record without TBrady. However, he said previously he wouldn’t coach into his 70’s. Maybe he shouldn’t have. Most of the coaching staff is about friends, family, former players or cronies. And he’s still doing it, despite all the innovative ideas out there in today’s NFL. He blew about 5 drafts listening to his college coaching buddies instead of his scouts. At least that seems to be fixed over the last few years. Belichick will never be fired in New England. But, unless he wants to get off his backside and get back to work, he should step adide and forget about Shula’s record. Which is the main reason he’s still working, IMO.

  11. Doesn’t matter who they hire. The bills and dolphins aren’t going anywhere. And, if the jets get a QB, the pats will be a last place team.

    At the end of the day, the pats offense is limited by Mac Jones. They went from one of the top OCs to two guys who couldn’t coach their way out of a wet paper bag. They went from getting blown out of the first round of the playoffs to barely missing the playoffs, so the drop off was not as huge as people think. The one constant was their middling QB.

  12. Bills are definitely not going anywhere. Went all in and blew it again. At home in the divisional round. Window is closed. Night, Night.

    MJones will never be a top 5 QB, but you can win with him. He’s the least of the Pats problems. At least they have a QB, unlike the Dolphins and the Jets. Last place for the Pats next year? I will gladly take that bet.

  13. Pats will be in the playoffs next year with at least a competent if not outstanding offensive coordinator, better roster through draft and free agency (good amount of cap money available), winning some of those one or two play losses that went against them this year. Mac will be fine- just look at the QBs who are still in the playoffs: they are all talented but they all have outstanding receivers, good offensive coordinators, and decent offensive lines. Mac had none of those. I doubt those QBs would be so great if they had to direct the Pats offense this year!

  14. Pat’s O-line has been suspect since the departure of Danate Scharneccia. The offensive play-calling has been bad, if not sloppy, under Patricia. The Pats have only a half-decent receiving corpse, a suspect running game, and a porous O-line. I actually see nothing wrong with Mac Jones that a few good pieces around him can’t fix.

  15. tedmurph says:
    January 27, 2023 at 7:51 pm
    Belichick completely threw away last year out of laziness.
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    Dunno about laziness but definitely hubris. Always trying to be the smartest guy in the room. A lot of times he is but a lot of times he isn’t too.

    I know any other head coach gets shown the exit door for doing what Bill did last season with the coaching staff.

    At least they have a real OC now but they still need better players to compete with top teams.

  16. I don’t know why everyone is so excited about O’Brien. Yes, he’s a real OC, but they could think outside the box. I think the Pats understood that a McVey type offense is the way to go in today’s NFL. They tried, but didn’t have the coaching to pull it off, and it was a disaster. O’Brien is just a throwback. Nothing to get excited about, IMO.

    They have some good players that need coaching, and a lot of draft picks and money to spend. We’ll see if they can pull it off.

  17. I don’t know why everyone is so excited about O’Brien. Yes, he’s a real OC, but they could think outside the box. I think the Pats understood that a McVey type offense is the way to go in today’s NFL.
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    That probably won’t happen until Bill is gone. IMO

  18. Ryan Wendell is the quintessential Patriot role player. An UDFA. Earned his way onto the roster. A backup that stepped up when injuries hit starters. Eventually earned a starting role. Respected enough to become a team captain. The type of guy the Patriots need to win.

    I don’t know if he’s the best choice to coach the OL but I do know he personifies the “Patriots Way”.

  19. Ryan Wendell played at Fresno State (following Logan Mankins) under Pat Hill, who was Belichick’s offensive line coach in Cleveland. I believe he played every position on the line. A hard worker with good experience. Young. Room to grow. I’m all in favor of stocking the coaching roster with young talent.

  20. They tried, but didn’t have the coaching to pull it off, and it was a disaster.

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    Unbelievable, fans of Belichick still believe that he had “coached up” players during Brady’s era.

    Ty Law: Patriots’ biggest need is a Stefon Diggs type of receiver
    “They need someone to help Mac Jones on the outside, someone who can take the top off the defense,” Law said on WEEI’s Greg Hill Show. “That’s what I see. There’s no one as far as a receiver is concerned that’s scaring anybody. They’re not putting the fear of God in no defensive backs, and that’s a problem.”

  21. Everyone is in agreement that the Bills offensive line was…offensive. Wonder why Pats fans are so excited by this guy?

  22. BeliCHEAP better realizes that the reason he could build offense cheaply before was because he had Tom Brady, he better realizes that Pats need a Stefon Diggs type of receiver, or Mr. Kraft steps in to get a top receiver from draft.

    If offense doesn’t turn around next season, Pats will be a 7-10 team at best, because those old players that have hold lock room together will be gone, and Pats will implode.

  23. I see what you are saying tedmurph, but I think using overwhelmed defensive coaches to coach the offense was the example of them thinking outside the box. It failed, and they are taking steps to fix it. Maybe it’s a safe pick. At least with Billy O, we will know where Mac Jones stands before the final decision is made on his 5th-year option. I’m hopeful. There’s a lot of work to be done. Free agency (with some money to spend) and the draft will be really interesting this year. (It still beats the 1-15 teams I grew up with to those that think this is the example of the dumpster fire.)

  24. Hopefully the Patriots will find out if Mac is the first good QB to play for the Patriots since Bledsoe. It’s been a while

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