Anyone interested in Ben McAdoo’s whereabouts after the Giants sent him packing would have had a difficult time keeping tabs of where he was, where he had been and where he was headed.

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Those tracking McAdoo were not alone in this pursuit. The challenge was real.

“My wife may have lost track of me at one point, too,” McAdoo told Sports+ recently.

A long and winding journey that took him far and nearly around the NFL, and also out of the league altogether for a spell, put him where every coach from 30 other teams wanted to be — in Santa Clara, Calif. last week as a participant in Super Bowl LX. McAdoo, a senior defensive assistant for the Patriots, did not get the result he wanted, as the Patriots were anemic on offense in a 29-13 loss to the Seahawks at Levi’s Stadium.