2015 Coaching Changes (1 Viewer)

[SaintsInDome2006]

I figure we might need this thread because the Miami coaching changed turned out to be pretty big in retrospect.

Today it was Detroit:

LIONS ANNOUNCE CHANGES TO COACHING STAFFAllen Park, Mich. – Detroit Lions Head Coach Jim Caldwell announced, effective immediately, changes to the coaching staff. Caldwell named Jim Bob Cooter offensive coordinator, Ron Prince assistant head coach/offensive line, Curtis Modkins running backs coach/run game coordinator and Devin Fitzsimmons tight ends coach. The following coaches were relieved of their duties: Joe Lombardi, Jeremiah Washburn and Terry Heffernan.

JIM BOB COOTER
Cooter joined the Lions offensive coaching staff as the team’s quarterbacks coach in 2014 after serving as an offensive assistant with the Denver Broncos in 2013. Now in his seventh season as an NFL coach, Cooter arrived in Detroit after helping guide the Broncos offense en route to a berth in Super Bowl XLVIII in 2013.

As quarterbacks coach in 2014, QB Matthew Stafford maintained his place among the NFL’s Top-10 quarterbacks throughout the 2014 season, as he finished ninth in passing yards with 4,257 and became the first Lions QB to play in the Pro Bowl (replaced Peyton Manning) since QB Greg Landry in 1972. Among the wins over the last two seasons, Stafford has six game-winning drives in the fourth-quarter or overtime.

With Cooter as a member of the coaching staff in 2013, the Broncos offense ranked first in the NFL in multiple categories, including total yards per game (465.3), total touchdowns (76), points per game (37.9), and set an NFL single-season record with 606 points scored. Broncos QB Peyton Manning set NFL records in passing yards (5,477) and passing touchdowns (55), and led the NFL in completions (450) as the team earned their third-straight AFC West division title.

Cooter’s previous NFL coaching experience includes stops with the Kansas City Chiefs (2012) and Indianapolis Colts (2009-2011). While with the Chiefs, the team ranked first in the AFC (fifth in the NFL) with 149.7 rushing yards per game as RB Jamaal Charles was named to his second Pro Bowl after racking up 1,509 yards and five rushing touchdowns.

During his three seasons in Indianapolis, he served three years on the offensive staff under Colts Offensive Coordinators Clyde Christensen and Tom Moore. The Colts won back-to-back AFC South division titles in 2009 and 2010, including a 14-game winning streak in 2009 to propel the team to an appearance in Super Bowl XLIV against New Orleans.

A former quarterback at the University of Tennessee, Cooter got his coaching start at his alma mater as a graduate assistant from 2007-08. As a player, he appeared in six games for the Volunteers and earned four Academic All-Southeastern Conference honors. He earned a bachelor’s degree in sports management from Tennessee in 2006 and went on to receive a master’s degree in sports psychology in 2008.

- From Detroit Lions press room.

In Denver he was an "Offensive Assistant." Not sure what that entails.

RW states:

although head coach Jim Caldwell is expected to now call plays.

...I have no idea what their source is for that.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Anyone see any changes in the way the lions do things?

 

[lod01]

Anyone see any changes in the way the lions do things?

Peyton Manning is impressed with Cooter. That's good enough for me to think Cooter will feature Calvin Johnson. Hope it works. Garbage like Philbin & Lombardi needs to be exposed & eliminated permanently from high level coaching positions. Pretty obvious Philbin was a total moron and I think this move will show that Lombardi was equally inept. The biggest question will be if Caldwell herminates Cooter if the Lions get any sort of lead.