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Mark Duffner

that would be an interesting hire. Not a huge name, but he's been a solid LB coach in the NFL since 1997.
 
Jaguars linebacker coach for the past seven seasons, but previously coached for the Packers. I am assume he would be the linebackers coach here as well, with the Assistant Head Coach title that was mentioned.
 
Remember him well. In the '90s I must have won two dozen bets against that guy when he was head coach at Maryland. He tried to institute a purely finesse pass happy style that the smarter and more aggressive teams teams chewed up. I think it had succeeded at a smaller school.

One of the bizarre coaching transitions of all time, going from college coach with a whispered tag of offensive genius to a long term NFL defensive assistant. For reference purposes, when Duffner took the Maryland job he literally had many of the same labels attached to him that Mike Leach carried from Oklahoma to Texas Tech. One guy who was a respected Las Vegas handicapper, and regular on the local radio programs, raved about Duffner and thought he would revolutionize college football offense. I got the last laugh on that one.
 
Not bad. Jaguars always seem to get pretty good production out of their linebackers. Posluszny and Smith had good years on D this season.
 
If Philbin likes him and trusts him to promote him to assistant HC, how can I second guess?
Most of these coaches are not widely known, but for now, we have to trust coach P.
 
I like the fact he's looking at coaches from different teams unlike TS who just wanted to get everyone from Dallas......I know this guy was with GB before but the thing is he's been in JAX for a while and each guy has learnt from different teams instead of having coaches that have learnt the same thing from the same place.

Ozzy rules!!
 
I did several analyses of various NFL units to see what position coaches and defensive coordinators teach their players to do it right. Mark Duffner definitely came up on that list.

The best linebackers unit in the league belonged to the San Francisco 49ers (coached by Jim Leavitt) but that's a little unfair because they're a 3-4 system and Aldon Smith got the bulk of his positive grade as a pass rusher, often with his hand in the dirt. If you're just grading Patrick Willis and Navorro Bowman, and comparing them with Paul Posluszny and Daryl Smith, that's a more even grading...except Willis we all know is a GOD at linebacker, and Posluszny was supposed to be a BUST out of Buffalo.

Loving the way this defensive coaching staff is shaping up. Loving that Joe Philbin is picking qualified guys that don't necessarily come wholesale over from the Packers. Kevin Coyle is another guy that made chicken salad out of chicken sh-t. He didn't come up in my position rankings but honestly when you have secondary players like Reggie Nelson, Chris Crocker, Pacman Jones and Kelly Jennings, and you can pair them up with Leon Hall and Nate Clements and get a top defense out of it...that's something to put on the resume.

Mark Duffner coming over on a lateral move is to me an A+ hire. Kevin Coyle promoted to Defensive Coordinator is at least a B hire. If he's able to get Mike Sherman as Offensive Coordinator that would be another A+ hire.
 
ckparrothead said:
I did several analyses of various NFL units to see what position coaches and defensive coordinators teach their players to do it right. Mark Duffner definitely came up on that list.

The best linebackers unit in the league belonged to the San Francisco 49ers (coached by Jim Leavitt) but that's a little unfair because they're a 3-4 system and Aldon Smith got the bulk of his positive grade as a pass rusher, often with his hand in the dirt. If you're just grading Patrick Willis and Navorro Bowman, and comparing them with Paul Posluszny and Daryl Smith, that's a more even grading...except Willis we all know is a GOD at linebacker, and Posluszny was supposed to be a BUST out of Buffalo.

Loving the way this defensive coaching staff is shaping up. Loving that Joe Philbin is picking qualified guys that don't necessarily come wholesale over from the Packers. Kevin Coyle is another guy that made chicken salad out of chicken sh-t. He didn't come up in my position rankings but honestly when you have secondary players like Reggie Nelson, Chris Crocker, Pacman Jones and Kelly Jennings, and you can pair them up with Leon Hall and Nate Clements and get a top defense out of it...that's something to put on the resume.Mark Duffner coming over on a lateral move is to me an A+ hire. Kevin Coyle promoted to Defensive Coordinator is at least a B hire. If he's able to get Mike Sherman as Offensive Coordinator that would be another A+ hire.
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my thoughts exactly.
 
Now that I've been tantalyzed with the possibility of hiring Mark Duffner, I'm told he just re-signed with the Jaguars like a little over a week ago. That would make getting him pretty unlikely. Looks like some shoddy reporting...
 
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