Our Defensive Backs Coach

[returnofthemak]

Herm Edwards has been fired and expressed interest in being a secondary coach. Doesn't want to be a DC. Is he the next man on the list of accomplished coaches added to the defensive staff?

[Badgerinmaine]

I have lots of respect for him...I'd love to see him in Green Bay. I've read some speculation that Jon Fox--who played with him in college--might pursue him as a DC for the Panthers.

[Farley Face]

Re: Our Defensive Backs Coach

Herm Edwards has been fired and expressed interest in being a secondary coach. Doesn't want to be a DC. Is he the next man on the list of accomplished coaches added to the defensive staff?

Sounds good to me. We have enough talent back there to make it enticing for him. Do you have a source for the comment about him preferring a secondary coach role? I hadn't heard that. Thanks. FF

[returnofthemak]

Herm Edwards, the head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs during the worst two-year span in team history, was fired Friday.

Three and out
Herm Edwards took the Chiefs to the playoffs in his first season in Kansas City, but since then it's been all downhill. A look at his three-year run as head coach:
Year Record Finish
2006 9-7 L, Wild Card playoffs
2007 4-12 3rd, AFC West
2008 2-14 4th, AFC West
Edwards goes out with a three-year regular-season record of 15-33 and one year remaining on a four-year, $12 million contract. As head coach of the New York Jets in 2001-05, he had a regular-season mark of 39-41 and was 2-3 in the playoffs.

Edwards told FOXSports.com's Jay Glazer that he was fired at 3 p.m. CT, with new general manager Scott Pioli telling him the team wanted to go in another direction.

"That's OK," Edwards told FOXSports.com. "I told (Pioli) I didn't need an explanation. I understand the business. I'm OK with it.

"I'm going to take until after the weekend to decide what I want to do next. I need to talk to my wife and see which direction I want to go."


Edwards said he will decide between taking time off, doing TV, and being a defensive backs coach, a job he truly enjoyed before becoming head coach of the New York Jets. Edwards said he does not want to be a defensive coordinator.
Edwards had been waiting to learn his fate since president and general manager Carl Peterson abruptly resigned on Dec. 15. When Pioli was introduced as Peterson's successor on Jan. 13, he was noncommittal and said only that he intended to speak with Edwards.

"This was not an easy decision. Herm is an outstanding football coach and a man of integrity. We appreciate his leadership over the past three seasons, and we wish him all the best in the future," Chiefs owner Clark Hunt said in a written statement.

Pioli said he has had several conversations with Edwards over the last week.

"After careful consideration, Clark and I felt that it was best to make a change," Pioli said.

Bob Moore, a spokesman for the team, said the Chiefs didn't have a timeline for replacing Edwards. He said all the assistant coaches still with Kansas City are under contract.


Edwards expressed his gratitude to the Hunt family and said he respected "the tough decision that was made to move in a new direction."

"There is not a more gracious family in all of professional sports than the Hunts," Edwards said in a statement released by the team. "To the players and coaches who worked so hard for our team, I appreciate their efforts."

After Edwards and Peterson launched a full-fledged rebuilding project in 2008, youth and injury led to a 2-14 record and a distressful two-year tally of 6-26 that cost both men their jobs. Particularly embarrassing to Edwards was a defense that managed only 10 sacks this season, gave up a team-record 332 yards rushing in one game and a team-record 54 points in another. Edwards had promised on his first day as head coach to repair the weak defense that characterized the five-year Dick Vermeil regime.

Following a 10-year career as an NFL cornerback, Edwards' first experience with Kansas City came as a training camp assistant in 1989. Seventeen years later, he had the distinction of being the first man to become head coach of the team that brought him into the NFL through the league's minority coaching fellowship program.

In spite of the losses, his players remained loyal to their charismatic coach whose background as a cornerback on Philadelphia's 1980 Super Bowl team gave him a special rapport.

[Farley Face]

Thanks.

[BallHawk]

Re: Our Defensive Backs Coach

Herm Edwards has been fired and expressed interest in being a secondary coach. Doesn't want to be a DC. Is he the next man on the list of accomplished coaches added to the defensive staff?

I'd be very happy with him on our staff. He's got everything you want in a coach.

Welcome to the forum.

[mraynrand]

Good Bye to Mike sHerman Edwards. I would be surprised to see him come to GB as secondary coach.

[Tarlam!]

Welcome ROTM.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY9ZvOc0uII

[Gunakor]

JSO reports that former Oakland Raiders defensive backs coach Darren Perry has been named our new safeties coach.

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/38456749.html

[HarveyWallbangers]

Dude coached the Raiders secondary the last two years, and coached the Steelers secondary the previous four years. He also played for the Steelers at the time Capers and Greene were there. Sounds promising.

Over those 6 years, here is the opposing passing stats for those defenses

2008 - 56%, 201 ypg, 20 TDs, 16 ints
2007 - 59%, 195 ypg, 17 TDs, 18 ints
2006 - 60%, 212 ypg, 21 TDs, 20 ints
2005 - 57%, 198 ypg, 15 TDs, 15 ints
2004 - 55%, 177 ypg, 14 TDs, 19 ints
2003 - 60%, 190 ypg, 20 TDs, 14 ints

Over a 6 year stretch, teams are completing around 57% of their passes for ~197 ypg with a 107 TD/102 int ratio. Pretty darn good.

[rbaloha1]

Trade for Lionel Washington.
Another great pickup.

[Patler]

Trade for Lionel Washington.

More evidence of pro sports simply recycling their coaches.

[mission]

I heard he's our secondary coach and not just safeties ... Joe Whitt guy, isn't he just a defensive (film, assistant) "intern" like that other guy on offense (can't think of his name, just woke up).