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The Official 2014 Head Coaching Search / Candidate Thread

Dash Global

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methodtoll Proficient

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You dont understand the obsession with a guy that has done nothing but field top 10 offenses and turned out un godly stats from QBs?

He is about as proven as an offensive / qb guru as you can come.

Whether his offense will work in the NFL is another story.

I am more than ready to take a chance. Fug these defensive minded simple offensive schemes. We need innovation and someone with a PROVEN record of producing un goldly QB stats.

And how is Chip Kelly doing?

Just say no to Sumlin

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BIOGRAPHY
  • Joined Packers on Jan. 29, 2006. Promoted to offensive coordinator on Feb. 2, 2012.
  • Possesses 20 years of coaching experience, including three seasons as an NFL offensive coordinator.
  • Has been instrumental in the development of QB Aaron Rodgers, who ranks No. 1 in NFL history with a 104.9 career passer rating and earned NFL Most Valuable Player honors in 2011.
  • Prior to Green Bay, spent 10 seasons coaching quarterbacks under some of the game’s most successful coaches, including Bill Cowher, Mike Ditka and Lou Holtz.
  • Played 12 years in the Canadian Football League at quarterback and was a seven-time divisional all-star and two-time Grey Cup champion; was inducted into the CFL Hall of Fame in 1994.
  • An All-American at Notre Dame in 1974, he finished fourth in Heisman Trophy balloting that year.

 

Tom Clements, entering his 21st season in the coaching profession, is in his second year as Green Bay’s offensive coordinator.

Now in his 17th overall NFL season, Clements was named to his current position on Feb. 2, 2012, after serving as Green Bay’s quarterbacks coach for the previous six seasons (2006-11). Having originally joined the Packers on Jan. 29, 2006, Clements also served as offensive coordinator for Buffalo (2004-05) and QBs coach for Pittsburgh (2001-03), Kansas City (2000) and New Orleans (1997-99).

During his seven seasons in Green Bay, the Packers have ranked in the top 10 in scoring in six of those seasons and in the top 10 in total offense six times. In 2012, Clements coordinated an offense that ranked No. 5 in the NFL in scoring (27.1 ppg), tied for No. 2 in giveaways (16) and No. 3 in red-zone efficiency (68.1 percent). The 16 giveaways were tied for the second fewest in a season in franchise history, and the team’s red-zone TD percentage was the best in a season since the statistic began to be recorded in 1995.

In 2012, QB Aaron Rodgers led the NFL in passer rating (108.0) for the second straight season and also ranked No. 1 in TD/INT ratio (4.88) and No. 2 in TD passes (39). He joined 49ers QB Steve Young (1991-94) as the only QBs in NFL history to register a 100-plus passer rating in four consecutive seasons (2009-12).

WR James Jones led the league with a career-high 14 TD catches in 2012, becoming the first Packer to do so since WR Sterling Sharpe (18) in 1994, and Jermichael Finley set a single-season franchise record for tight ends with 61 receptions.

As QBs coach, Clements’ extensive tutelage of Rodgers paid dividends, culminating with a 2011 campaign that saw him earn NFL Most Valuable Player honors from The Associated Press. Rodgers set an NFL record with a 122.5 passer rating and franchise marks for TD passes (45), passing yards (4,643), completion percentage (68.3), yards per attempt (9.25), TD/INT ratio (7.50) and 300-yard games (eight). Clements helped Rodgers become the first QB in NFL history to register two seasons with 500-plus attempts and seven or fewer INTs (2009 and 2011) .

Clements also tutored QB Matt Flynn, a seventh-round choice by the club in 2008, as he set single-game franchise records in the 2011 season finale with 480 passing yards and six TDs (later matched by Rodgers) vs. Detroit. Combined with Rodgers’ five TD passes the previous week vs. Chicago, it marked the first time in the history of the NFL that a team had two different QBs each throw five-plus TDs in consecutive games.

Rodgers’ first 4,000-yard season in 2008 gave the Packers 4,000-yard passers in consecutive seasons for just the second time in team history, and for the first time in league history those back-to-back 4,000-yard passers were different QBs.

The previous two seasons, in addition to tutoring Rodgers as the backup and heir apparent, Clements oversaw a mini-renaissance of Brett Favre’s career. In 2006, Favre reduced his interceptions from a career-high 29 the year before to just 18, setting the stage for a near-MVP season in 2007, when he surpassed 4,000 yards passing for the fifth time and led the Packers back to the playoffs.

Before coming to Green Bay, Clements spent two seasons (2004-05) as offensive coordinator for the Buffalo Bills. In 2004, the offense increased its scoring output by 152 points and reduced its number of sacks allowed from 51 to 38. In 2005, RB Willis McGahee became the fifth running back in Bills history to register back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons and QB Kelly Holcomb set a club single-season record with a 67.39 completion percentage.

Prior to joining the Bills, Clements served as Pittsburgh’s quarterbacks coach for three seasons (2001-03) under Bill Cowher. In 2002, he helped Tommy Maddox earn the Comeback Player of the Year award from AP.

Clements also worked with Pittsburgh’s Kordell Stewart (2001) and Kansas City’s Elvis Grbac (2000) during each quarterback’s best season, both culminating in Pro Bowl berths. Mike Ditka gave Clements his first NFL coaching job, hiring him to coach the Saints’ quarterbacks (1997-99), a group that included Jake Delhomme and Kerry Collins.

Prior to his post with the Saints, Clements served under Lou Holtz as quarterbacks coach (1992-94) and wide receivers/assistant head coach (1995) at his alma mater, Notre Dame. While with the Fighting Irish, Clements coached eventual 1993 NFL Rookie of the Year QB Rick Mirer, and WR Derrick Mayes, the Packers’ second-round draft pick in 1996. In addition, he tutored QB Ron Powlus, Notre Dame’s career passing leader in attempts, completions, yardage and touchdowns at the time of his graduation.

Inducted into the Canadian Football League’s Hall of Fame in 1994, Clements played QB for Ottawa (1975-78), Saskatchewan/Hamilton (1979), Hamilton (1981-82) and Winnipeg (1983-87) during a 12-year career in the CFL. Selected seven times as a divisional All-Star, Clements guided two teams, Ottawa (1976) and Winnipeg (1984), to Grey Cup championships, earning the Outstanding Offensive Player award in each game. The league’s Rookie of the Year in 1975 and Most Valuable Player in 1987, Clements completed 2,807 of 4,657 passes (60.3 percent) for 39,041 yards and 252 touchdowns during his CFL career.

Clements also spent one season, 1980, as a quarterback for Marv Levy’s Kansas City Chiefs.

A three-year starter at Notre Dame (1972-74) under Ara Parseghian, Clements led the Irish to a 29-5 record, including an unblemished national championship season in 1973. An All-American in 1974, he finished fourth in Heisman Trophy balloting when Archie Griffin earned the award. Clements received his degree in economics from Notre Dame in 1975.

A licensed attorney, Clements worked from 1988-92 for Bell, Boyd & Lloyd (now known as K&L Gates), a Chicago-based law firm. He pursued his law degree during his playing career, graduating magna cum laude from Notre Dame’s School of Law in 1986. In 1994, while on the Notre Dame coaching staff, Clements was an adjunct associate professor of law at the university’s law school, where he taught “Sports and the Law.”

 

 

 

 

Please. Please. Please. 

 

Btw, Maybe we can get Winston Moss to come on as Defensive Coordinator. 

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Everyone thought I was crazy in the offseason when I said I'd fire Ron Rivera right now to hire Andy Reid.  Everyone had visions of Chip Kelly dancing in their heads.  What say y'all now?

 

Get back at me when Reid wins a SB. 

 

He had plenty of time in Phi. 

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Get back at me when Reid wins a SB. 

 

He had plenty of time in Phi. 

 

Mighty cocky talk from a Panthers fan.  We haven't made the playoffs since '05.  We should probably focus on getting there before we talk Super Bowls.  JR isn't ponying up the cash for a coach with a SB ring or a hot prospect like Kelly or Harbaugh.  When we can Rivera, we'll probably replace him with another Rivera - another 1st time head coach who is just happy to have the job because it's the only HC offer he's ever received or will ever receive.  We got lucky with Fox.

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You realize he coached at other schools besides Texas A&M?!?

 

Clueless much?

 

Yeah, because Houston is certainly comparable to the NFL, right?

 

I'm not saying he's a terrible coach.  He may turn out to have a long, successful career.  I'm just saying that at this point wanting to hand him a NFL head coaching job seems majorly premature.

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