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What About Lou Anarumo for Defensive Coordinator?

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This guy (Points upward)...

So Schwartz is out as an option at Defensive Coordinator. The next name on everyone's lips has been the in-house option in LB coach Mark Duffner. I'm not saying it won't happen (I would be delighted if it did), but I don't think this is the slam dunk option everyone thinks it is. Duffner and Coyle are SUPER close. They've worked together a very long time and it may not exactly be the easy sell to Duffner, "Hey, we are firing the guy who brought you in and is responsible for helping your career out a ton...take his job please?" Yes, that does happen in the NFL, but not every person is comfortable with that.


I want to pull another name out of the Dolphins coaching hat: Lou Anarumo, the team's current cornerbacks coach. He has a merchant marine background, which would gel nicely with Dan Campbell's "You're with me or take a long walk off a short plank" approach, and has certainly worked with successful defensive systems at various colleges. He is green, but the argument could be made that someone with a bit more openness to defensive scheme could suit our defensive personnel better. It's also not lost on me that there simply aren't many options if Duffner says no.

Unlike Lazor, whom I feel did not see eye to eye with Joe Philbin and could be happy to open up his offense more, I would NOT bring back Kevin Coyle. It destroys a lot of the good will fostered with the Dan Campbell signing. Plus, the guy already knows the team tried to replace him, and Tony Sparano-ing another coach is not something I can stomach.
 
Never any experience at any level. However, Coyle has to go.
 
Hayden Fox said:
Never any experience at any level. However, Coyle has to go.
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He was Defensive Coordinator at the Marine Academy, and Assistant Coach at Harvard. Kevin Coyle's highest honor was similarly Defensive Coordinator of college teams (albeit more of them). Lou's players love him, and in interviews he actually sounds like a normal human being...which is something we all gravitated to with Dan Campbell.

Now that I am reading, I DO see that his family vacations with Kevin Coyle's family...but I could see him taking this job in a heartbeat and instantly doing better than Coyle at it.
 
I read this as "How about Lou Albano for Defensive Coordinator."

Looks like I picked the wrong day to start sniffing glue.
 
Can Captain Lou bring the Wild Samoans with him to stop the run?
 
Anyone but coyle. The players don't want him and normally I would say the players need to grow up but in this case is best for coyle to go.

Ozzy rules
 
Okay, now I REALLY want this guy to be our next Defensive Coordinator. Could you imagine a coaching WWE tag team of muscleman Dan Campbell and a guy who gives you this mental picture every time you hear his name?

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You look at Lou Anarumo's CV and one thing really jumps out at me?

Once he got to the Major College Level he never progressed past DB coach.
I mean his time at the merchant marine DC I am not really going to honor.
Now he did survive a regime change at Purdue and stayed on in his same position which is definitely a plus.

Furthermore what in his work has he shown that he is particularly effective in developing defensive backs?

Actually I was thinking to myself what has he done to actually coach up our Db's?
 
Though I think your point about Duffner likely being conflicted is well taken
 
This is what makes this process so difficult. Every option we have to promote from within are deeply embedded with the coaching staff we're trying to get rid of.
 
Mogwai said:
This is what makes this process so difficult. Every option we have to promote from within are deeply embedded with the coaching staff we're trying to get rid of.
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VERY good point, Mogwai. It's difficult to separate the problems from the possible solutions. That's what makes the interviewing the team is likely doing now internally so important. If Lou can decipher a way to fix what's out there, I'd be shocked if they didn't consider him with the lack of candidates out there.

Similarly, I imagine Dan Campbell's interview went like this:

Team: "What makes you think you'd make a good head coach for this team?"

Dan Campbell: "I'd ask myself "What would Joe Philbin do", and then do the exact opposite. The guy was an assclown."

Team: "You're hired"
 
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