{"id":751096,"date":"2026-02-14T07:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T07:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/751096\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T07:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T07:37:20","slug":"former-patriots-coach-hired-by-afc-east-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/751096\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Patriots Coach Hired By AFC East Rival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former New England Patriots offensive assistant Bo Hardegree was <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/09\/ex-patriots-coach-handed-keys-to-one-of-nfls-worst-offenses\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">handed the keys<\/a> to the Tennessee Titans\u2019 offense when he took over as the team\u2019s play-caller in late September.<\/p>\n<p>After nearly nine months working closely with 2025 first overall pick Cam Ward, the 41-year-old is moving onto the Buffalo Bills where he\u2019ll lead the Patriots\u2019 rivals as their new quarterbacks coach.<\/p>\n<p>Hardegree was among a slew of new coaches <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buffalobills.com\/news\/buffalo-bills-announce-2026-assistant-coaching-staff-additions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">officially added<\/a> to first-year Bills head coach Joe Brady\u2019s staff on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Tennessee native will now look to help superstar Josh Allen elevate his game even further after the 29-year-old followed up his 2024 MVP season with a fourth straight Pro Bowl campaign in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Hardegree worked with the Denver Broncos (2014), Chicago Bears (2015), Miami Dolphins (2016-18) and New York Jets (2019-2020) in various roles before serving as Bill Belichick\u2019s offensive assistant in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He then worked as the Las Vegas Raiders\u2019 quarterbacks coach in 2022 and 2023 under now-Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels before landing with the Titans.<\/p>\n<p>The latter was Las Vegas\u2019 head coach for the entire 2022 season and part of the 2023 campaign before being fired after Week 8.<\/p>\n<p>Hardegree was promoted to the Raiders\u2019 offensive coordinator post following McDaniels\u2019 dismissal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former New England Patriots offensive assistant Bo Hardegree was handed the keys to the Tennessee Titans\u2019 offense when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,872,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-751096","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-allen","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\/116067843789142142","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751096","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=751096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}