FOXBOROUGH — Patriots offensive line coach Doug Marrone, 60, is a football lifer. He played 10 years in college and the pros, and has coached since 1992, with two stints as an NFL head coach.
Yet Marrone is getting an education this spring, his first with the Patriots. In all his years of football, he doesn’t have much experience with the offensive scheme run by Josh McDaniels.
“We as coaches, we go through the same thing [as players], the details and the fundamentals and learning and everything,” Marrone said Monday. “It’s been exciting for me to go in and embrace that, learn something that might not be the same that you’ve done for all these past years, then be able to go out there and teach it, which is a great challenge.