My Choices for Offensive Coordinator

by TitanRob on Feb 9, 2011 10:50 AM CST

The following are my choices for the next Titans Offensive Coordinator

Brad Childress - fired as Vikings Head Coach - Childress brings a lot to the table. He worked as QB coach and OC for the Eagles under Andy Reid, and was instrumental in the development of QB Donovan McNabb. He then served as Head Coach of the Vikings where until last year, their offense was always really good. Childress would also bring some head coaching experience in and can give Munchak guidance/suggestions as Munch sees fit.
Tom Clements - current Green Bay QB Coach - What can you say? His team just won the Super Bowl. But I dug deeper and found out that Clements is a lawyer and actually practiced law for 5 years. He was also a QB coach at Notre Dame under Lou Holtz. He has been the QB coach for Green Bay since 2006 and has been instrumental in the development of QB Aaron Rodgers.
James Urban - current Eagles QB Coach - Urban has spent his whole coaching career under Andy Reid in Philadelphia. He has been the QB coach since 2009. He has been instrumental in the development of QB Kevin Kolb and the turnaround of QB Mike Vick. He is known as a teacher, which would fit Munchak's philosophies. He was recently promoted to Assistant Offensive Coordinator in Philadelphia. He would be a great fit if the Titans are planning on seeking a trade for Kevin Kolb.
Matt Cavanaugh - current Jets QB Coach - Cavanaugh is very interesting because he has 3 Super Bowl rings. One with the 49ers as a backup QB, one with the Giants as a backup QB, and one with the Ravens as the Offensive Coordinator. He has been an OC for the Ravens and Bears. As QB coach of the Jets, he has been very instrumental in the development of QB Mark Sanchez.
Jim Zorn - fired as Ravens QB Coach - Zorn is very interesting because of his head coaching experience with the Redskins. He was clearly over his head there, but it is valuable experience nonetheless. Zorn was a starting QB for the Seahawks in his playing days. He made a name for himself as a long time QB coach for the Seahawks and was instrumental in the success of QB Matt Hasselbeck. He served last year as Ravens QB coach and Joe Flacco had a career year. There was some kind of rift between OC Cam Cameron and Zorn in Baltimore that led to his firing. Several offensive players have expressed their disdain that Zorn was let go. What else is interesting about Zorn is that he could be hired as QB coach and paired with one of these other 4 candidates to make a great tandem.

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Of the above, Clements is the only one I'm interested in.

Childress – No. It took Brett Favre having a career year for that offense to finally get going.

Urban – Kolb has been up-and-down, and we have no idea how much of the success of Vick was due to Reid/the offense/Vick himself.

Cavanaugh – No way. OC for the Ravens and Bears is not a good selling point to me at all. Especially the Ravens part. Those two teams were not known for their offenses at all in the past decade. Sanchez is still borderline to me, I honestly have not been real impressed with him.

Zorn – Meh. Munch obviously wants a unified coaching staff, if Zorn is going to have an ego or cause trouble, no way he’s here.

Clements seems like a solid guy who has done spectacular work with Rodgers, and has prior experience as an OC. Yes, it was Buffalo, but give him some talent at offense and a QB to develop, let’s see what he cand o.

Ribs. I had ribs for lunch. That's why I'm doing this.

by ronburgundy7427 on Feb 9, 2011 11:33 AM CST reply actions

All have positives and negatives

Your choice, Clements had an anemic run game this year and that will probably still be what the Titans build their offense around.

by TitanRob on Feb 9, 2011 1:55 PM CST reply actions

Clements was the QB coach in Green Bay, not the OC.

I’d say he did pretty well with Rodgers.

Ribs. I had ribs for lunch. That's why I'm doing this.

by ronburgundy7427 on Feb 9, 2011 2:40 PM CST up reply actions

Touche

by TitanRob on Feb 9, 2011 8:02 PM CST up reply actions

Urban

Some of the articles I read when researching this gave Urban a ton of credit for Vick.

by TitanRob on Feb 9, 2011 1:56 PM CST reply actions

Problem is:

This late in the game many of the good young guys to promote have already gone to other teams.

by TitanRob on Feb 9, 2011 1:56 PM CST reply actions

I like Clements

As a QB coach, he has done wonders over the years. He wasn’t great as an OC at Buffalo but I would think he has learned a few things being under Mike McCarthy.

I think he’s worth taking a shot on…I wouldn’t like Childress…just saying “Brad Childress” leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

by shawneriksmith on Feb 9, 2011 2:34 PM CST reply actions

That bad taste

is contagious.. NO on Childress
Visions of " Fire Chilly" signs dance in my head
( thought about it, then mucked stalls, thought about it again)
IMO
Clements or Urban

OH YEA
This is gonna be a fun ride

by cowgirl attitude on Feb 9, 2011 3:55 PM CST reply actions

List of coaches I would love to see fill an OC spot on a team not named the Titans:

Mike Leach
Gus Malzahn
Art Briles
June Jones
Urban Meyer

I mean, a team has to try and run the spread at some point in the NFL, right? More and more, teams are tip-toeing around it, but I’d love to see a full on spread attack.

by SuperHorn on Feb 9, 2011 4:21 PM CST reply actions