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Some things that went right for the Dolphins this past year.
The Miami Dolphins completed their second season under head coach Mike McDaniel with an 11-6 regular-season record and a wild-card loss to the Kansas City Chiefs to end their playoff hopes.
While Miami may not have accomplished everything they would’ve liked to in 2023, they still did have some impressive showings up and down both the roster and coaching staff.
As we reflect on the year that was, let’s take a quick look at four things that went right for the Dolphins during their 2023 campaign.
The former first-round pick is trying to earn the starting right tackle job for 2023.
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Entering the 2023 season, the Miami Dolphins made a change to their coaching staff, replacing Matt Applebaum with Butch Barry after just one season.
The Dolphins are no strangers to shuffling offensive line coaches, as they’ve had seven since the start of the 2016 season.
Barry has experience working with Mike McDaniel, as the two worked together in 2021 in San Francisco.
He’ll be tasked with figuring out the two spots that aren’t currently manned by Terron Armstead, Connor Williams or Robert Hunt. Left guard and right tackle have been sore spots for the Dolphins in recent years, and last year, Liam Eichenberg and Austin Jackson were given those jobs out of camp.
Both dealt with injuries in 2022, with Jackson playing in just two games. While they’ve only been working together for a short time, Barry is already liking what he’s seen from Jackson this offseason.
“He’s been awesome to work with,” Barry said (transcribed by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel). “He really has. He’s been very intentional in everything that we try to do. He’s taking the approach, the process, the standard that we’re trying to go about it and he’s embraced it.
“And look, it’s not going to be perfect. No player plays the perfect game. No player has the perfect practice. But he has intentionality in everything he’s trying to do. And he comes with an emphasis every day. Every day, he has an emphasis on what he wants to get better at, and as a coach that’s all you can ever ask for.”
Jackson has to really show that talent that got him drafted in the first round of the 2020 draft if he wants to earn that starting job again in 2023. He’ll have competition for the role, as Miami signed two former first-round selections in Isaiah Wynn and Cedric Ogbuehi to at least push Jackson if not take the job from him completely.
At least he’s showing the effort now, but he’ll need more than that to be protecting Tua Tagovailoa’s blind side against the Los Angeles Chargers in Week 1.
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Here are some of the latest updates for the Broncos’ 2023 coaching staff.
There have been a few developments since our last update on the state of the Denver Broncos’ coaching staff.
First up, the departures: After being let go by Denver, inside linebackers coach Peter Hansen has joined the Carolina Panthers in a lateral move. He will reunite with defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero in Charlotte.
The Broncos are also losing defensive intern coach DeAndre Thompson, who announced on Twitter he has joined the Detroit Lions.
Elsewhere on the coaching front, offensive assistant Kevin Petry has decided to remain with the New Orleans Saints after drawing interest from Denver. And former Broncos offensive line coach Butch Barry has landed an o-line coach job with the Miami Dolphins.
Finally, the most notable development of the last 48 hours: The Broncos have discussed bringing 75-year-old coach Mike Westhoff out of retirement to join Sean Payton‘s staff “in some capacity,” according to The MMQB’s Albert Breer.
Bringing coaches out of retirement certainly isn’t unheard of — Denver just brought a 67-year-old Jerry Rosburg out of retirement last year to serve as a senior assistant, but it’s also not common.
Westhoff has served as a special teams coach with four different teams, but he hasn’t coached in the NFL since 2018. The veteran coach worked under Payton with the Saints from 2017-2018.
If the Broncos do hire Westhoff, it presumably wouldn’t be as the special teams coordinator. He would be more likely to join the team as a consultant or senior assistant, similar to the kind of role Bill Kollar (70) had last year.
We are tracking all of the coaching staff changes on this page.
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He’s worked with Mike McDaniel before.
The Miami Dolphins are continuing their offseason moves to the coaching staff after firing defensive coordinator Josh Boyer, offensive line coach Matt Applebaum and three defensive positional coaches.
On Wednesday, Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald reported that the Dolphins are hiring Butch Barry to be their next offensive line coach.
Barry spent the last year as the offensive line coach for the Denver Broncos, but he worked with Mike McDaniel in 2021 in San Francisco where he was the assistant offensive line coach to Chris Foerster.
He also had stops in Tampa Bay and Green Bay prior to their time together.
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After firing HC Nathaniel Hackett on Monday, the Broncos also parted ways with ST coordinator Dwayne Stukes and OL coach Butch Barry.
After firing Nathaniel Hackett on Monday, the Denver Broncos parted ways with two more coaches a few hours later.
The Broncos announced on Monday evening that special teams coordinator Dwayne Stukes and offensive line coach Butch Barry were “relieved of their duties.”
For the final two games of the season, Mike Mallory will coach special teams, Ben Steele will coach the team’s offensive line and Jerry Rosburg will serve as interim head coach.
Denver ranks last in kickoff return yards this season (16.9 yards per return) and kicker Brandon McManus ranks 31st in field goal percentage (75%). Corliss Waitman, the team’s punter, ranks 22nd in yards-per-punt average (46.2).
That explains the Stukes firing.
Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson has been sacked a league-high 49 times this season, and Denver’s offensive line overall has allowed 57 sacks this year, the highest total in the NFL.
That explains the Barry firing, who was a curious hire from the start. Hackett added Barry after parting ways with accomplished offensive line coach Mike Munchak, a move that was questioned by both pundits and fans.
Munchak took a break from coaching this year and it’s possible that the team’s next head coach might be able to convince him to return.
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More hires are on the way.
After hiring Justin Outten (offensive coordinator), Butch Barry (offensive line coach) and Klint Kubiak (passing game coordinator/quarterbacks coach) earlier this month, Denver Broncos head coach Nathaniel Hackett made seven more hires official on Monday.
Denver announced the official additions of Dom Capers (senior defensive assistant), Ramon Chinyoung (offensive quality control), Peter Hansen (linebackers), Mike Mallory (assistant special teams), Jake Moreland (tight ends), Ben Steele (assistant offensive line) and Bert Watts (outside linebackers), bringing the total to 10 new coaches so far.
More hires are on the way.
Most notably, Los Angeles Rams secondary coach/pass game coordinator Ejiro Evero is expected to become the team’s new defensive coordinator. The Rams just won the Super Bowl on Sunday, so that move not becoming official on Monday is not surprising.
The Broncos are also expected to hire Rams assistant special teams coach Dwayne Stukes as their new offensive coordinator. Other additions that are not yet official include Tyrone Wheatley (running backs coach) and Marcus Dixon (defensive line coach).
We are tracking all of Denver’s coaching changes on this page.
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Butch Barry, a senior analyst for the Packers, is leaving Green Bay for a chance to join the 49ers.
The 49ers have hired Butch Barry, who served as the Packers' senior analyst this past season, a source said. He will be the 49ers assistant offensive line coach. https://t.co/XvfbgI788S
— Rob Demovsky (@RobDemovsky) January 29, 2021
One of Matt LaFleur’s assistant coaches is leaving Green Bay for an opportunity on Kyle Shanahan’s staff with the San Francisco 49ers.
According to Rob Demovsky of ESPN, the 49ers are hiring Packers assistant Butch Barry, who served as a senior analyst on LaFleur’s staff in 2020. He’ll be the 49ers’ new assistant offensive line coach.
Barry has experience coaching the offensive line. Before arriving in Green Bay, Barry was the offensive line coach for the Miami Hurricanes. From 2015-18, he served as the assistant offensive line coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The 49ers are losing offensive line coach John Benton, who left for a spot on Robert Saleh’s new staff with the New York Jets.
The Packers still have offensive line coach Adam Stenavich and assistant Luke Butkus.
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The Packers are adding a senior assistant to the coaching staff.
The #Packers are hiring Butch Barry as senior assistant, source said. He was most recently at the University of Miami and has a background coaching offensive line.
— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) March 9, 2020
The Green Bay Packers are adding an assistant coach with NFL experience to Matt LaFleur’s offensive coaching staff.
According to Tom Pelissero of NFL Network, the Packers hired Butch Barry – who coached the offensive line at the University of Miami last season – as a senior assistant.
Barry, a Wisconsin native who played college football at Central Michigan, spent four years (2015-18) as the assistant offensive line coach of the Buccaneers.
Barry also coached the offensive line and tight ends for five years as an assistant at Central Michigan.
— Butch Barry (@ButchBarry) March 9, 2020
The Packers still have not hired an official wide receivers coach to replace Alvis Whitted.
