{"id":681274,"date":"2026-01-16T07:36:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/681274\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T07:36:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:36:24","slug":"patriots-josh-mcdaniels-opens-up-about-coaching-vs-brother-on-texans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/681274\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots&#8217; Josh McDaniels Opens Up About Coaching Vs. Brother On Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story of the New England Patriots cannot be told without offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels. He has been on the coaching staff for every single one of the franchise\u2019s six Super Bowl wins. <\/p>\n<p>His prolonged success has landed him other jobs around the league, but he once again returned to New England this offseason for his third stint with the Patriots in pursuit of number seven.<\/p>\n<p>That pursuit now takes a unique turn as he is set to welcome his brother, Ben McDaniels, to Foxboro this Sunday in a divisional round playoff clash.<\/p>\n<p>Ben is the younger brother of Josh and has 22 years of coaching experience of his own.<\/p>\n<p>He is now in his fifth season with the Houston Texans and is working his way up the staff. He started as an offensive assistant, then became the wide receivers coach, and is now operating as the passing game coordinator while still overseeing the receiver room. <\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Josh spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patriots.com\/video\/josh-mcdaniels-1-15-we-re-going-to-need-to-play-our-best-game-of-the-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reporters in Foxboro on Thursday<\/a> about what it means to have his brother in town.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe kind of grew up in a coach\u2019s household with my dad,\u201d McDaniels said. \u201cI\u2019m super proud of what (Ben) has been able to do. Obviously, these are interesting situations when you find yourself competing with your sibling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s a little bit more interesting for my parents than anybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>McDaniels\u2019 father, Thomas, was a high school football coach in Canton, Ohio, for nearly 40 years. He became one of the most respected high school coaches in Ohio state history, being named the USA Today High School Coach of the Year in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are looking forward to the opportunity,\u201d McDaniels continued. \u201cI know he is trying to beat us just like we\u2019re trying to beat him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe compete in almost anything we do, honestly, \u2014 which is kind of fun \u2014 this will be no different. I think this is our fourth time having an opportunity to do this, just a little bit more at stake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The story of the New England Patriots cannot be told without offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels. He has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,6441,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-681274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-josh-mcdaniels","10":"tag-new-england","11":"tag-new-england-patriots","12":"tag-newengland","13":"tag-newenglandpatriots","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-patriots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115903633195453141","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}