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Broncos’ new ILBs coach is a former defensive coordinator

Greg Manusky, the Broncos’ new inside linebackers coach, has served as a defensive coordinator with four teams in the NFL.

Sean Payton‘s coaching staff will include an assistant head coach helping run special teams, and a positional coach on defense with 20 years of experience coaching defenses in the NFL.

Payton announced several coaching hires earlier this month, including Greg Manusky as the team’s new inside linebackers coach. Manusky, 56, has an impressive resume for a position coach.

Manusky had a 12-year career as a linebacker in the NFL from 1988-1999, playing for Washington, Minnesota and Kansas City. He started his coaching career as a linebackers coach with Washington in 2001.

He later held the same role with San Diego before being hired as a defensive coordinator in San Francisco (2007-2010). Manusky later went on to serve as a DC for San Diego (2011), Indianapolis (2012-2015) and Washington (2017-2019) before joining Kentucky in 2020 as a defensive quality control assistant.

After two years at the college level, Manusky joined the Minnesota Vikings as an inside linebackers coach in 2022, and he now lands in Denver to fill the same role with the Broncos. With 22 years of coaching experience and 32 years of experience in the NFL, Manusky should have Denver’s inside linebackers ready to go this fall.

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Former Washington player/defensive coordinator Greg Manusky has a new job

Greg Manusky spent a total of eight seasons in Washington, including three as defensive coordinator.

Greg Manusky was a popular player for the then-Washington Redskins from 1988-90. An undrafted linebacker from Colgate, Manusky appeared in 39 games, making 15 starts during his three seasons in Washington.

Manusky left Washington for Minnesota, where he spent three seasons before playing his final six seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs.

Shortly after his playing career ended, Manusky returned to Washington to begin his coaching career. He was the linebackers coach for Washington in 2001 under his former Kansas City coach Marty Schottenheimer. After a five-year stint as linebackers coach with the Chargers, Manusky spent the next nine seasons as a defensive coordinator with three teams.

Then, he once again returned to Washington.

After spending one season as outside linebackers coach in 2016, Manusky spent the next three seasons as defensive coordinator and frequently drew the ire of fans for his struggling defensive teams.

It was a hard fall for Manusky, who went to the college game for two seasons as a defensive quality control assistant for the Kentucky Wildcats. He returned to the NFL in 2022 as an inside linebackers coach for the Vikings under former Washington colleague Kevin O’Connell.

Now, Manusky has another new job in the NFL. He is the inside linebackers coach for new Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton. Why Denver? New defensive coordinator Vance Joseph was the assistant defensive backs coach under Manuksy for four seasons in San Francisco, while Manusky was the defensive coordinator.

While Manusky’s defenses in Washington weren’t very good, he remains a respected coach around the NFL.

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Broncos coaching staff update: Final pieces falling into place

The Broncos are expected to add Joe Lombardi, Keary Colbert, Michael Wilhoite and Greg Manusky to their coaching staff.

Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton is getting closer to adding the final pieces to his staff.

In addition to hiring Vance Joseph as the team’s new defensive coordinator on Thursday, Payton also hired Joe Lombardi for the offensive staff, according to KUSA-TV’s Mike Klis. It’s not yet clear if Lombardi will serve as the offensive coordinator or in another role.

Lombardi worked under Payton in three different roles with the New Orleans Saints, including as a quarterbacks coach from 2016-2020. He served as offensive coordinator with the Los Angeles Chargers from 2021-2022 before reuniting with Payton in Denver.

Payton also hired wide receivers coach Keary Colbert on Thursday, according to a report from On3.com’s Matt Zenitz. Colbert, a former Broncos receiver, coached at the University of Florida last fall. Before that, Colbert coached at USC from 2016-2021, helping develop a group of receivers including Michael Pittman Jr., Amon-Ra St. Brown and Drake London.

Denver is also bringing in Davis Webb as quarterbacks coach, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Webb spent time as a backup QB with three teams — most recently with the New York Giants last year — before joining the Broncos as a coach.

On special teams, Denver will hire Chris Banjo as an assistant special teams coach, according to Klis. Banjo, 32, is a former safety who was just officially cut by the Arizona Cardinals on Thursday. Banjo played under Payton in New Orleans and under new Broncos defensive coordinator Vance Joseph in Arizona.

Meanwhile, on the defensive side of the ball, Denver is hiring Michael Wilhoite as its new linebackers coach, according to Klis. He coached under Payton with the Saints from 2019-2020.

Wilhoite will presumably oversee the outside linebackers because Greg Manusky is joining the team as their inside linebackers coach, according to NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero. He has DC experience with four NFL teams and most recently coached ILBs with the Minnesota Vikings last season.

Joseph’s defensive staff will also include holdover defensive line coach Marcus Dixon and defensive backs coach Christian Parker, NFL Network’s James Palmer confirmed Thursday. Klis had previously reported that the Broncos hoped to keep Dixon and Parker on staff regardless of who was hired as DC.

Ben Steele, who served as Denver’s assistant offensive line coach last season, will not be staying. Steele has joined the Arizona Cardinals as their new tight ends coach. We are tracking all of the changes to the Broncos’ coaching staff on this page.

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Vikings lose another assistant coach

The Vikings have now lost six assistants so far this year

The Minnesota Vikings had some coaches earlier this offseason requested for interviews with all of them coming on the offensive side of the football. None of them resulted in new positions for them, but they have lost multiple assistant coaches since then.

Per NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero, the Cardinals took the Vikings sixth assistant coach in hiring assistant linebackers coach Sam Siefkes to be their linebackers coach.

The Vikings had already lost five coaches prior to Siefkes accepting the job with the Cardinals.

  • Assistant quarterbacks coach Jerrod Johnson-Houston Texans
  • Defensive coordinator Ed Donatell-Terminated
  • Inside linebackers coach Greg Manusky-Terminated
  • Defensive line assistant A’lique Terry-Oregon Ducks
  • Assistant special teams coordinator Ben Kotwica-Denver Broncos

Siefkes joined the Vikings in 2021 as a quality control coach before getting promoted to assistant linebackers coach with new head coach Kevin O’Connell.

Expect new defensive coordinator Brian Flores to continue building up his staff with his own guys.

Vikings put finishing touches on coaching staff with a slew of hirings

Vikings coaching staff is set with six new hirings

Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell has put the finishing touches on his coaching staff with the team confirming six new hires.

Greg Manusky being brought in as the inside linebackers coach was reported last week, but it was made official on Tuesday.

Other names on the list include Tony Sorrentino (assistant wide receivers/quality control), Derron Montgomery (offensive quality control), A’Lique Terry (assistant defensive line), Steve Donatell (defensive quality control) and Ryan Cordell (pass game specialist/game management coordinator.

Steve Donatell is an interesting addition to the staff with his father, Ed Donatell, being named as the team’s new defensive coordinator. So there will be another father and son duo in the coaching room for the Vikings.

Manusky has served as a defensive coordinator for the Washington Commanders, Indianapolis Colts and Los Angeles Chargers. So he’ll bring in a lot of experience in helping the Vikings improve their struggling defense.

Here is the list of Vikings coaches in its entirety.

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Report: Vikings hiring Greg Manusky as linebackers coach

Vikings bringing in a former defensive coordinator to coach their linebackers

After serving as the defensive quality control assistant for Kentucky over the last two seasons, Greg Manusky is expected to make the trek back to the NFL as the new inside linebackers coach for the Minnesota Vikings, according to Pro Football Network’s Aaron Wilson.

Manusky will serve on head coach Kevin O’Connell’s staff as an inside linebackers coach under newly-hired defensive coordinator Ed Donatell. With all of the talk surrounding hybrid defenses, his job will be key in helping Donatell teach and install a multiple-front look.

Before coaching at Kentucky, Manusky spent four years with the Washington Commanders as a defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach. That stint followed previous jobs as a defensive coordinator for the Indianapolis Colts and Los Angeles Chargers.

So he’ll come to the team with plenty of experience.

The connection with the Commanders obviously links back to O’Connell, who was still with the team at the time serving as the quarterbacks coach. Quarterback Kirk Cousins was also there at the same time as Manusky.

In many ways, this is quickly becoming a bit of a reunion for O’Connell with previous coaches he’s worked with and trusted in the past.

Hopefully, it leads to big things when the team steps back onto the field in 2022.

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Former Washington safety D.J. Swearinger exposes old texts with Jay Gruden

Swearinger took the opportunity on Friday to air out old text messages with Jay Gruden, who challenged him on comments made to the media.

Were you looking for another juicy storyline to come out of Washington this week? Well, you’ve got one. Just days after the team announced that it will be retiring the controversial name and mascot, and just a day after a groundbreaking report came out accusing several staff members of sexual and verbal abuse, another story is hot off the press where one former player in Washington is calling out the former coach in Washington.

You get all of that?

It all started on Friday afternoon when former Washington safety D.J. Swearinger posted a picture of what are supposedly old text messages with Jay Gruden, who was fired midway through the 2019 season. Swearinger was released by Washington in 2018 after he publicly criticized the then-defensive coordinator Greg Manusky. Earlier that month, on December 8th, 2018, Swearinger had told reporters not to blame the players for the Redskins’ defensive struggles.

In a text message marked December 8th, Swearinger says Gruden texted him, starting the conversation with a profane message: “Wanna play? Let’s [expletive] play.”

In his caption to the post, Swearinger wrote that “As A Man You Have To Find Your Peace Through All The Negativity & Move Fwd!! I Was Gonna Give The Man A Pass but after what’s going on with that organization with women! They all need to be exposed.”

We’ll see if more current or former Washington players choose to use this opportunity to come out and expose some of their former coworkers or not. Stay tuned.

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Jack Del Rio says it’s time to stop blaming Greg Manusky for Redskins’ struggles

Del Rio is in charge of Washington’s defense, and he wants to assure fans that he has it under control, and they can move on from Manusky.

When your team has been down in the dumps for as long as the Washington Redskins, it’s easy for the fan base to deflect blame onto certain people in the organization. For the past decade, it’s been mainly Bruce Allen who shoulders the load, but Jay Gruden also caught a lot of flack, as did Dan Snyder and a few others.

During the 2019 season, after Gruden was finally removed from his post as head coach, the overarching blame shifted to defensive coordinator Greg Manusky, who was failing with a talented defense week after week, unable to keep an unproductive offense in the game. Now that Manusky has been fired alongside much of the old regime, and Jack Del Rio has replaced him as the new DC, it’s time to let go of that ill-will, and move on.

Maybe Del Rio is trying to unite the fanbase and buy into the new regime. Maybe he is also quote tweeting this article to remind everyone how truly terrible Manusky really was. It’s probably the former, but there may be a bit of the latter sprinkled in there too. Whichever it is, a new day is on the horizon, and it’s been made clear that in order to fully embrace the new regime, getting rid of the old one is paramount.

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Former Redskins coach Greg Manusky lands college job as quality control assistant

Manusky has landed a small-time job in college after being fired as the defensive coordinator for the Redskins.

Many of the former Washington Redskins coaches have been forced to look for work in the past few months, as a new coaching staff followed Ron Rivera to the nation’s capital.

We’ve seen people like Jay Gruden, Kevin O’Connell, and Bill Callahan land safely with other NFL teams, but not everyone was able to find such a nice position after being fired by the Redskins. Former defensive coordinator Greg Manusky has finally found work, but it’s no longer in the NFL, and no longer as a DC.

According to NBC Sports Washington, Manusky has agreed to become the next defensive quality control assistant at the University of Kentucky. This is a head-scratcher, as that position is usually held by a young coaching prospect who is looking to make his way up the coaching ladder, not a former NFL player and coordinator who has spent years in the big leagues.

There were certainly strong arguments to be made against Manusky finding another NFL job, as his defense ranked in the bottom five of the league when it came to points and yards allowed in 2019. The Redskins since overhauled their defensive staff and are looking for a better outcome in 2020.

As for Manusky, it looks like he will have to prove himself at the college level once again before he gets any serious looks from an NFL team.

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Dallas Cowboys hire former Redskins defensive line coach Jim Tomsula

Jim Tomsula didn’t take long to find a new coaching job, as he has been hired by the Dallas Cowboys under Mike McCarthy.

While the Washington Redskins have brought in a number of new coaches to fill out their ranks under new head coach Ron Rivera, that has left several former Redskins coaches to find a job elsewhere.

With names like Kevin O’Connell, Bill Callahan, and Greg Manusky now on the market looking for work, news will likely start to trickle in over the next few weeks detailing where these former Redskins have found a new home. For defensive line coach Jim Tomsula, he has already found a new home, and he’s keeping it in the division.

According to ESPN, Tomsula has been hired by the Dallas Cowboys as the new defensive line coach, now under the Cowboys’ new head coach, Mike McCarthy. Tomsula spent three years in Washington under defensive coordinator Manusky.

Tomsula will reportedly be working under Mike Nolan, the Cowboys new defensive coordinator, and he will get to see his old pals in Washington at least twice a year going forward.

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