Josh McDaniels returns to the Patriots as offensive coordinator and will face his former Raiders team in the home opener. McDaniels spent a season-and-a-half with the Raiders as head coach and compiled a 9-16 record in Las Vegas, with a prior head-coaching stint in Denver in 2009-2010. McDaniels was on the Patriots staff for six Super Bowl wins. Experiences in Las Vegas provided lessons from struggles and failures, with an emphasis on learning more from failure than success. McDaniels maintains relationships across the league, expresses no ill will toward his former team, and praised new Raiders coach Pete Carroll.
I don't think there was really a big reaction. Every team, every year is different. There's obviously a lot of people on a lot of teams in the league that we all have familiarity with and know well. Certainly there's still some people there that I know well and have relationships with that hopefully we'll have forever. Just excited for our opportunity.
There's too many things that you learn from each experience to list them, in terms of a press conference ... But, I think you go in there every opportunity, and this is my next one, and you do the best you can. You learn more, honestly, when you fail than when you have success. I've always tried to take each opportunity as an experience that I can grow from.
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