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Texans to hire 49ers passing game coordinator Bobby Slowik for OC

DeMeco Ryans is making former 49ers pass game coordinator Bobby Slowik his offensive coordinator.

DeMeco Ryans’ offensive coordinator in Houston will come from the 49ers’ coaching staff. NFL Media’s Tom Pelissero on Sunday reported Ryans and the Texans will hire Bobby Slowik as their new offensive coordinator.

Slowik has been with the 49ers since 2017 when he arrived with Kyle Shanahan. He entered the organization as a defensive quality control coach before joining the offensive staff as an assistant in 2019. In 2021 he was promoted to offensive pass game specialist, and then received another promotion to pass game coordinator this season.

This will be his first venture away from Shanahan. He joined the NFL as a defensive assistant with Washington while Kyle Shanahan was the OC and Mike Shanahan was the head coach.

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Texans hiring 49ers passing game coordinator Bobby Slowik as offensive coordinator

The Houston Texans are hiring San Francisco 49ers passing game coordinator Bobby Slowik as DeMeco Ryans’ new offensive coordinator.

The Houston Texans have taken another San Francisco 49ers assistant to join DeMeco Ryans’ new coaching staff.

According to Aaron Wilson from KPRC-TV, the Texans are hiring 49ers passing game coordinator Bobby Slowik as their new offensive coordinator, replacing Pep Hamilton, who was Houston’s play-caller for the 2022 season.

Slowik joins Nick Kray and Stephen Adegoke as the other former San Francisco assistants to join the Texans’ new staff under Ryans.

Slowik had been on the 49ers’ staff led by Kyle Shanahan since the 2017 season, and was even a defensive quality control coach alongside Ryans in that first year. Slowik remained in that role until 2019 when he became an offensive assistant for the next two seasons. In 2021, Slowik was the 49ers’ offensive pass game specialist.

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Updated list of OC candidates the Eagles could target with Shane Steichen heading to the Colts

Here is an updated look at 10 offensive coordinator candidates the Philadelphia Eagles could target with Shane Steichen likely to accept the Colts’ head coaching job

Nick Sirianni now appears just days away from officially having his own coaching tree and with the expectation that Shane Steichen (Colts) and Jonathan Gannon (Cardinals) will land jobs, we’re taking an early look at potential replacements.

Sirianni rightfully gets a lot of credit for the Eagles’ success.

Philadelphia’s second-year head coach has far exceeded expectations and proven that he was the perfect target for the role. However, it’s important to remember that Steichen had a massive role in the offense.

Sirianni described this last summer how involved Steichen is with everything the Eagles have done offensively. He started calling plays late in the 2021 season, playing a pivotal role in the Birds’ offense taking off. It’s a change that carried over into 2022 with Philly boasting one of the top offenses all season.

Interest in Steichen will go beyond his work in Philadelphia. He served as the Los Angeles Chargers offensive coordinator in 2020, working alongside Justin Herbert in a record-setting rookie season.

Combine his work with Herbert and Jalen Hurts, and that’s a future NFL head coach.

Here’s an updated list of potential candidates with Steichen set to take his talents to the AFC.

DeMeco Ryans coaching staff tracker: Who joins the Houston Texans?

DeMeco Ryans is assembling his coaching staff. Stay up to date on who is joining the Houston Texans.

The Houston Texans continue to assemble their new coaching staff under DeMeco Ryans, the sixth full-time coach in team history.

The Texans’ search has done exactly what Ryans said they would do in his introductory presser: commit to diversity.

“You want a diverse staff because players learn differently, so, we want to be able to present things in a different way to different players to make sure when they step on the field Sunday, they’re clear minds,” said Ryans. “They’re not thinking. They’re playing as fast as possible.”

Here is a look at who the Texans have talked to as they put together a new staff. The titles listed for each candidate is what they held at the beginning of the 2022 season.

Texans interview 49ers passing game coordinator Bobby Slowik for spot on DeMeco Ryans’ staff

The Houston Texans interviewed San Francisco 49ers passing game coordinator Bobby Slowik for offensive coordinator under DeMeco Ryans.

With DeMeco Ryans going to the AFC South, it means that some of his fellow staff members with the San Francisco 49ers might follow him to the Houston Texans.

According to Aaron Wilson from KPRC-TV, the Texans interviewed 49ers passing game coordinator Bobby Slowik for the offensive coordinator position.

Slowik, son of NFL and CFL coach Bob Slowik, started off with Washington from 2011-13 as a member of Mike Shanahan’s defensive staff. Slowik worked with Pro Football Focus between coaching jobs, and was back in the ranks in 2017 as a defensive assistant with the 49ers for the first two seasons of Kyle Shanahan’s tenure. From 2019-20, Slowik moved over to become an offensive assistant. In 2021, Slowik was the pass game specialist before taking on a new title in 2022.

The offensive coordinator for the Texans in 2022 was Pep Hamilton. Houston finished 30th in points for and 31st in total offense.

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Report: Texans request interview with 49ers passing game coordinator for OC job

The Texans requested to interview 49ers passing game coordinator Bobby Slowik for their OC opening.

New Texans head coach DeMeco Ryans is already looking to build his staff using people from the 49ers. NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport reported Ryans and the Texans are requesting to interview 49ers passing game coordinator Bobby Slowik for their offensive coordinator opening.

This has become a common theme with 49ers coaches leaving the team for head coaching jobs. Robert Saleh and Mike McDaniel have both filled some spots on their coaching staffs with familiar faces from San Francisco.

The Texans’ OC will have a key role for Ryans as he looks to build a capable NFL offense, and they’ll likely be required to oversee the development of a young  quarterback.

Slowik joined the 49ers in 2017 as an offensive quality control coach before moving up to offensive assistant in 2019, and then up to offensive passing game specialist in 2021. For the 2022 season he was promoted to passing game coordinator.

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Ranking offensive coordinator candidates the Eagles could target if Shane Steichen departs

Nick Sirianni says he has a planned response and we’re ranking 10 OC candidates the Eagles could target if Shane Steichen lands an NFL head coaching job in 2023

Nick Sirianni is weeks away from officially having his own coaching tree and with the expectation that a team will likely hire Shane Steichen (OC) and Jonathan Gannon (DC), we’re taking an early look at potential replacements.

Sirianni rightfully gets a lot of credit for the Eagles’ success.

Philadelphia’s second-year head coach has far exceeded expectations and proven that he was the perfect target for the role. However, it’s important to remember that Shane Steichen has a massive role in the offense.

Sirianni described this last summer how involved Steichen is with everything the Eagles have done offensively. He started calling plays late in the 2021 season, playing a pivotal role in the Birds’ offense taking off. It’s a change that carried over into 2022 with Philly boasting one of the top offenses all season.

Interest in Steichen will go beyond his work in Philadelphia. He served as the Los Angeles Chargers offensive coordinator in 2020, working alongside Justin Herbert in a record-setting rookie season.

Combine his work with Herbert and Jalen Hurts, and that’s a future NFL head coach.

Sirianni knows his assistants are wanted and he has a plan for their departures.

“Of course, I want to keep these guys, they’re great coordinators, but in the event that I lose them, I have an idea of what I want to do at both spots. The answer is sometimes, yes, it’s in the building, and sometimes it’s outside of the building. But I feel like we have a lot of good options, and I feel like we have a lot of good options in the building that we’d be excited about if that were to happen.”

Here are 10 potential targets for Sirianni if Steichen lands a job in the 2023 cycle ranked from best to worst option.

6 candidates to replace Saints offensive coordinator Pete Carmichael

It’s clear the Saints need to go in a new direction on offense. These candidates could be good picks to replace OC Pete Carmichael, via @RossJacksonNOLA and @john_siglerr:

It’s clear that the New Orleans Saints offense needs to change. The team made an assumption that Pete Carmichael could keep it afloat thanks to his 15 years of experience in the system, as the NFL’s longest-tenured offensive coordinator — but that blew up in their face. They averaged just 19.4 points per game this season and a meagre 13.5 points per game through their final six contests. That’s inexcusable with the playmakers assembled in New Orleans.

Carmichael mismanaged personnel throughout the season, failing to creatively use Alvin Kamara on the ground (with too many runs flowing between the tackles in 10 yards-to-go situations) and through the air (with the fewest designed screen passes in the league, and little to no targets out of the slot) and neglecting to keep his most effective short-yardage convertor, Taysom Hill, involved for long stretches of play. Electrifying rookie receiver Rashid Shaheed didn’t become a regular part of the offense until Week 11.

And that doesn’t even get into his concerning trends as a play caller. Few offenses had more rushing attempts on 2nd-and-10 after an incomplete pass than the Saints did under Carmichael (37), with defenses responding accordingly by allowing just 3.4 yards per carry on those downs. Carmichael never seemed to buck that trend, among others. New Orleans needs to evolve.

So making a change at offensive coordinator should be one of the first moves of their offseason. Whether the Saints try to keep things in-house again or fully explore their options outside the building, here are five names on our radar:

10 OC candidates the Eagles could target if Shane Steichen lands a head coaching job

We’re taking an early look at 10 offensive coordinator candidates the Philadelphia Eagles could target if Shane Steichen lands an NFL head coaching job in 2023

Nick Sirianni is weeks away from officially having his own coaching tree and with the expectation that teams will target Shane Steichen (OC) and Jonathan Gannon (DC), we’re taking an early look at potential replacements.

Sirianni rightfully gets a lot of credit for the Eagles’ success.

Philadelphia’s second-year head coach has far exceeded expectations and proven that he was the perfect target for the role. However, it’s important to remember that Shane Steichen has a massive role in the offense.

Sirianni described this last summer how involved Steichen is with everything the Eagles have done offensively. He started calling plays late in the 2021 season, playing a pivotal role in the Birds’ offense taking off. It’s a change that carried over into 2022 with Philly boasting one of the top offenses all season.

Interest in Steichen will go beyond his work in Philadelphia. He served as the Los Angeles Chargers’ offensive coordinator in 2020, working alongside Justin Herbert in a record-setting rookie season.

Combine his work with Herbert and Jalen Hurts, and that’s a future NFL head coach.

Here are 10 potential targets for Sirianni if Steichen lands a job in the 2023 cycle.