Josh McDaniels and Matt Patricia are Staying with the Patriots

Josh McDaniels reportedly withdraws from 49ers coach search https://t.co/tEePX5JjIp

— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) January 16, 2017

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PFT - There’s one head coaching vacancy in the NFL right now and it appears it will not be filled by Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels. …

UPDATE 11:42 a.m. ET: McDaniels confirmed he’ll be staying put during a Monday conference call.

Unbelievable. Simply un-freaking-believable. The Patriots haven’t even made their annual trip to the AFC title game and already they know they’ll be bringing back both of their coordinators.  The best young offensive innovator in the game in Josh McDaniels and a literal rocket scientist in Matt Patricia, who lost his two most athletic young studs to trades and still engineered the lowest-points-against defense in the game. And losing them to another franchise won’t be an issue for another year. The Patriots are like a multi-billionaire who not only just keeps getting richer, but doesn’t have to pay taxes.

I mean, look at the head coaching hires around the league. Mediocre units all over the place have lost coaches to head coaching jobs. A Memory Foam-soft Dolphins defense loses Vance Joseph to Denver. The Bills defense was somehow good enough to get Anthony Lynn the head job with the Chargers. Doug Marrone coaches an atrocious Jaguars O-line and manages to parlay that into a promotion. Sean McVay uses his resume coordinating the Redskins offense into a head coaching gig with the Rams. While McDaniels and Patricia stay as assistants. It’s Bananaland.

And Pats fans have reason to rejoice. You just never see this kind of continuity at the top of a dynasty. It’s virtually unprecedented. Up until recently, we couldn’t go a season without a brain drain happening this time of year. It was inevitable. Teams so frustrated by their failure to figure out a winning formula they’d try to plant a branch off the Belichick coaching tree and pray it would bear fruit. But now there’s just so much dysfunction around the league with teams like the Niners firing their coaches every other month, McDaniels and Patricia are too smart to leave a great situation until the perfect job opens up. Meanwhile, Belchick gets yet another year to groom their eventual successors to keep the prosperity coming.

Every time you think life can’t get better for the Patriots, it does. Coach stays.