Tag: Bobby Maffei

Panthers retain 13 assistant coaches, including entire defensive staff

Panthers DC Ejiro Evero will have his entire staff back for 2024.

The Carolina Panthers did more than just roll out the hirings of six new faces on Thursday. They also announced the returns of 13 familiar ones.

In addition to their additions, the team is retaining 13 assistant coaches—headlined by defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero. Evero will be joined back by his entire defensive staff.

The group is as follows:

  • Dom Capers (defensive assistant)
  • Todd Wash (defensive line coach)
  • Bert Watts (secondary/safeties coach)
  • Jonathan Cooley (secondary/cornerbacks coach)
  • Peter Hansen (inside linebackers coach)
  • Tem Lukabu (outside linebackers coach)
  • DeAngelo Hall (assistant defensive backs coach)
  • Mayur Chaudhari (defensive assistant)
  • Bobby Maffei (defensive quality control coach)

Carolina will also keep a few offensive minds in senior assistant Jim Caldwell and offensive assistant Mike Bercovici. Game management coordinator George Li will be staying on as well.

Along with Evero, the organization previously announced the hirings of their two new coordinators in Brad Idzik and Tracy Smith—who will lead the offense and special teams, respectively.

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Panthers announce 5 additions to coaching staff on Thursday

The Panthers officially announced five additions to their coaching staff on Thursday.

The Carolina Panthers are putting the finishing touches on their all-star sideline.

As announced by the team on Thursday afternoon, five men have been officially named to head coach Frank Reich’s staff. Two of the five were first reported on last night—by Joe Person of The Athletic and Mike Kaye of The Charlotte Observer, respectively—in offensive assistant Michael Bercovici and defensive assistant Mayur Chaudhari.

Bercovici, a former quarterback for Arizona State University and the Alliance of American Football’s San Diego Fleet, comes over with three years of experience in a similar post with the Arizona Cardinals. Chaudhari, most recently, served as a special teams assistant for the Los Angeles Chargers in 2021 after spending three seasons in the same role with the Atlanta Falcons.

Joining them are Jamel Mutunga and Tyler Boyles. Mutunga, who was an offensive assistant with the Indianapolis Colts last year, will take up the same duties in Carolina while Boyles, a two-year assistant to Reich in Indianapolis, is on for offensive quality control and as an assistant (again) to the head coach.

As for the fifth name, the team has retained Bobby Maffei as a defensive quality control coach. He, under former interim head coach Steve Wilks, worked with the safeties to close out the 2022 campaign.

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