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Ohio State football loses offensive analyst Joe Philbin to the NFL

The Buckeyes are losing great offensive mind

Ohio State football head coach Ryan Day made a shrewd move last year when he hired [autotag]Joe Philbin[/autotag] as an offensive analyst to help bridge Brian Hartline to offensive coordinator.

It didn’t work out like many would have liked, but the former NFL head coach quickly returned back to The League. On Tuesday it was announced that the Las Vegas Raiders had hired Philbin as its senior offensive assistant.

The move clearly was predicated by the hire of Chip Kelly as the Buckeyes offensive coordinator, the need for a senior voice to help with play-calling was not unnecessary. Losing Philbin should still be viewed as a loss, but not as big anymore.

At this point in his career, Philbin no longer is a head coaching candidate, but is a great voice in a coaching room and should help Antonio Pierce as he begins his first full season with the Raiders.

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Raiders hiring former Dolphins HC as offensive assistant

Former Dolphins coach lands with the Raiders.

At this point in the NFL offseason, most teams are putting their finishing touches on their coaching staff for the next season, as some were let go or moved on to new opportunities.

On Tuesday, NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported that the Las Vegas Raiders are hiring former Miami Dolphins head coach Joe Philbin as a senior offensive assistant.

Philbin, 62, was the Dolphins head coach from 2012-15, leading the aqua and orange to a 26-30 record before being fired midseason and being replaced by current Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell.

Since leaving Miami, Philbin has spent time with the Indianapolis Colts (2016-17), Green Bay Packers (2018), Dallas Cowboys (2020-22) and Ohio State (2023).

The Dolphins are scheduled to play the Raiders in 2024 at Hard Rock Stadium, so Philbin may be seen on the sideline or in their coaching box for the matchup.

Raiders to hire former Dolphins head coach Joe Philbin as senior offensive assistant

Antonio Pierce brings on Joe Philbin as senior offensive assistant, adding another former head coach to his ranks

Another veteran NFL coach and former head coach is joining Antonio Pierce’s staff in Las Vegas. Former Dolphins head coach Joe Philbin is coming aboard the Raiders staff as a senior offensive assistant.

Philbin last coached in the NFL with the Cowboys where he had been the team’s offensive line coach for three seasons.

He entered the NFL in 2003 with the Packers, working his way up to offensive coordinator in 2007 and spent five seasons in that role before taking the head coaching job in Miami.

Philbin spent four seasons from 2012-15 as the head coach of the Dolphins. Since then he has had stints as the offensive line coach with the Colts and Cowboys with a single season as the OC back in Green Bay in between.

All told, Philbin brings two decades of NFL coaching experience into the building.

Pierce is surrounding himself with veteran coaching minds like Philbin and Marvin Lewis, who is a defensive minded coach and the team’s assistant head coach.

Former head coach talks giving Ben Johnson his first NFL coaching job

How is Ben Johnson as a leader?

The Detroit Lions have a huge game on Sunday. The Lions will host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFC divisional round of the playoffs. With a win, the Lions would play in their first NFC championship game since Jan. 1992.

Detroit’s opponent in 1992 was the then-Washington Redskins. Washington defeated Detroit 41-10 and would go on to win Super Bowl XXVI.

These days, the Lions and Washington are connected by Detroit offensive coordinator Ben Johnson. Johnson is reportedly the Commanders’ top target for their vacant head coaching position.

This week, Johnson was asked if he knew Washington’s new GM Adam Peters. Also, Detroit head coach Dan Campbell discussed why Johnson was ready for the next step in his coaching career.

Someone who knows both Campbell and Johnson well is former Miami Dolphins head coach Joe Philbin. It was Philbin who brought Campbell and Johnson together in 2012. When Philbin was hired as Miami’s head coach in 2012, he inherited Campbell as his tight ends coach.

When Philbin put together his first coaching staff, he hired a then-24-year-old Johnson as an offensive assistant. It was Johnson’s first NFL job after three seasons at Boston College as an offensive assistant.

Philbin recently spoke to Scott Abraham of ABC 7 in Washington, D.C. about Johnson’s progression as a coach.

“Ben was with me all four years I was down there and started off as just a quality control coach, kind of the beginning of the whole journey,” Philbin said. “And really just exceeded expectations in every single assignment that we gave him. He was eventually the assistant quarterbacks coach for me, he and Zac Taylor (Bengals head coach), so he was in pretty good company with those two.”

Taylor began his NFL coaching career on the same staff as Johnson as Miami’s assistant QB coach. After one year in that role, Taylor became the quarterbacks coach with Johnson replacing him in the assistant role. After four more seasons as an assistant coach with three teams, Taylor began his head coaching career with Cincinnati in 2019.

Last week, in his introductory press conference, Peters was asked about the most important trait he looked for in a head coach. He said leadership.

How is Johnson’s leadership?

“Absolutely, I think they developed over time,” Philbin said regarding Johnson’s leadership skills. “But I know the players then held him in high regard, as I’m sure they do in Detroit for much the same reasons. No. 1, I think he’s in coaching for the right reasons; I don’t think it’s all about Ben Johnson, necessarily. I think he really the challenge of helping a player reach his potential as an athlete, as a football player. I think that’s really what makes Ben Johnson tick.”

Washington has competition for Johnson, as he’s interviewed with several other teams, too, and is believed to be Carolina’s top target.

Paul Chryst reportedly turned down Iowa Hawkeyes’ OC offer

Former Wisconsin head football coach and current Texas Longhorns analyst Paul Chryst reportedly turned down Iowa’s OC offer.

As the Iowa Hawkeyes‘ offensive coordinator search rolls into the back half of January, there’s an update on the ongoing coaching search for Brian Ferentz’s replacement.

Per Chad Leistikow of Hawk Central, former Wisconsin head coach and current Texas Longhorns analyst Paul Chryst turned down the offer to become the Hawkeyes’ next offensive coordinator.

Ferentz’s top target, Paul Chryst, has decided to stay at Texas, where he was an analyst last season. The Register has learned that Chryst was given the opportunity to take the job but ultimately declined in recent days.

The former Wisconsin head coach would have made total sense. Personally and professionally, Chryst was a perfect fit for Iowa and Ferentz. – Leistikow, Hawk Central.

Chryst’s work in morphing Barry Alvarez’s offense from a unit that averaged 20.8 points per game in 2004 to 34.3 points per game in 2005 put Chryst on the national map. Then, with quarterbacks Scott Tolzien and Russell Wilson, Wisconsin averaged 41.5 points and 44.1 points per game during the 2010 and 2011 seasons, respectively.

Having coached at Wisconsin as a tight ends coach, offensive coordinator and head coach for so long, Chryst seemed a natural fit given his familiarity with the Big Ten and with the Hawkeyes.

But, it’s time for Iowa to pivot. According to Leistikow, fans can scratch two other popular names as well.

There have been countless other rumored candidates. One of them is Joe Philbin, the former Iowa offensive line coach and offensive coordinator of the 2010 Green Bay Packers’ Super Bowl-winning team with NFL head-coaching experience.

The latest flavor of the week (or day) has been UNLV offensive coordinator Brennan Marion.

From what I’ve learned in the last 24 hours, neither Philbin nor Marion is happening. – Leistikow, Hawk Central.

Iowa already missed on another popular prospect in the offensive coordinator ranks when former South Dakota State OC Zach Lujan joined Northwestern head coach David Braun’s staff as the new Wildcats offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.

Could this mean a promotion from within for senior special assistant Jon Budmayr? Or, does Iowa turn to the NFL ranks?

This is a fascinating development in a search that Iowa head football coach Kirk Ferentz expected to be nearing its end by this point when he met with the media ahead of the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl against Tennessee last month.

“Obviously, it’s tabled right now. The focus is right on this game. Hope to have a clear idea the first two, three weeks of January. I’d like to think by the third week of January that we’ve got it done. Feel really optimistic right now and we’ll end up with a really good person,” Ferentz said ahead of the Hawkeyes’ bowl date.

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Iowa fans react to rumors of Joe Philbin as Hawkeyes’ next offensive coordinator

Is Joe Philbin going to be Iowa’s next OC? Those rumblings started heating up. Here’s how Hawkeye fans digested that possibility.

There’s plenty of names that have gotten thrown around as possibilities as the Iowa Hawkeyes‘ next offensive coordinator.

Earlier this week, rumors about Scott Frost made their way to the Pat McAfee Show. That seemed like perhaps too gargantuan of a philosophical leap.

An in-house name like senior special assistant Jon Budmayr or former Wisconsin head coach Paul Chryst always seemed like more likely candidates. But, if the recent buzz from Hawk Fanatic‘s Pat Harty is true, there might be another name to be excited about.

Harty took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to relay that one of his sources expects former Miami Dolphins head coach Joe Philbin to be hired as Iowa’s new offensive coordinator.

Of course, Philbin was also the Hawkeyes’ offensive line coach from 1999 through the 2002 season. Then, Philbin climbed the ranks with the Green Bay Packers beginning in 2003 as an assistant offensive line coach.

During the 2004 and 2005 NFL seasons, Philbin added the role of tight ends coach before assuming the full-time role as Green Bay offensive line coach in 2006. Then, while serving as the Packers’ offensive coordinator from 2007-11, Philbin helped quarterback Aaron Rodgers bring the Lombardi Trophy back to Green Bay to cap the 2010 season.

That led Philbin to the Miami head coaching gig from 2012-15 where he compiled a record of 24-28 leading the Dolphins before being fired early in the 2015 season.

Philbin spent this past season as an offensive analyst with the Ohio State Buckeyes.

Call it news, or just call it more speculation, but it created quite the stir among Hawkeye fans across social media.

Former Dolphins HC joining Ohio State staff as offensive analyst

He spent the last three seasons as the Cowboys offensive line coach.

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When someone reaches the top of the professional coaching profession it’s hard to hold that spot for long, unless you’re a perennial winner.

Former Miami Dolphins head coach Joe Philbin ran the South Florida team from 2012-15, leading them to a 24-28 record before being fired just four games into his fourth season. Philbin got an opportunity as Green Bay Packers interim head coach in 2018 when Mike McCarthy got fired. Under him, Green Bay went 2-2.

Now, after following McCarty to Dallas and spending three seasons as the Cowboys offensive line coach, Philbin has jumped back to the college football ranks for the first time since 2002. According to ESPN’s Pete Thamel, Philbin has joined the Ohio State Buckeyes coaching staff as an offensive analyst.

Philbin’s last collegiate coaching job was with the Iowa Hawkeyes as offensive line coach from 1999-2002.

Ohio State continues to be one of the premier college football programs in the country, despite not winning a championship since 2014. He’ll also have an opportunity to work with the top receiver in the nation in Marvin Harrison Jr., who’s expected to be a top pick in the 2024 draft.

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Ohio State hires former NFL head coach as offensive analyst

What appears to be another quality hire by Ryan Day. #GoBucks

Ryan Day and the Ohio State football program continue to tweak the coaching staff to try to come up with the right mix of personnel on the offensive and defensive side of the ball. It’s the ongoing bid to gain the competitive advantage to stay at the forefront of the college football world.

The latest is the announcement of OSU hiring former NFL head coach Joe Philbin as an offensive analyst, as first reported by ESPN’s Pete Thamel.

Philbin has extensive NFL and college experience. His last stop prior to being hired by the Buckeyes was in Dallas as the Cowboys’ offensive line coach from 2020-2022. Prior to that, Philbin was the offensive coordinator and interim head coach for the Green Bay Packers (2018), assistant head coach/offensive line coach with the Colts (2016-2017) and the head coach of the Miami Dolphins (2012-2015). He held several other assistant coaching posts with the Packers from 2003-20011.

Before entering the NFL, Philbin had Big Ten experience as the offensive line coach for the Iowa Hawkeyes from 1999-2002.

Philbin joins one other analyst Ohio State hired in the offseason along with defensive analyst Mike Dawson, another guy that has had stops in the NFL.

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COVID-19 to have ripple effect on multiple Cowboys coaches for Week 13

The Cowboys will have several assistants pitch in with the offensive line this week after multiple coaches have tested positive for COVID. | From @ToddBrock24f7

The Cowboys’ roster has been harangued by COVID-19 all season long, with the virus affecting more players in Dallas than any other locker room in the league.

Now it’s working its way though the coaching staff, too, causing a ripple effect of gameday duties.

The Cowboys have announced that offensive line coach Joe Philbin, assistant offensive line coach Joe Blasko, and coaching assistant Scott Tolzien have entered the league’s COVID-19 protocol and will miss Thursday night’s game against the Saints.

Their absences will put several other Cowboys staffers in new roles on a fill-in basis.

“We have some different scenarios of exactly how we’re going to work the week,” head coach Mike McCarthy said Sunday in a conference call with media members.

Those scenarios include tight end coach Lunda Wells, quality control coach Chase Haslett, and Ben McAdoo, who has been serving the team in a consultant role, scouting future opponents.

Wells’s first coaching job was as an offensive line assistant at LSU for two seasons; he did the same job again with the New York Giants from 2013 to 2017.

Haslett is the son of former NFL coach Jim Haslett. He was hired by Dallas in 2020 after gaining offensive coaching experience at Nebraska, Mississippi State, and Mercer.

McAdoo’s name is most familiar as the head coach of the Giants in 2016 and most of 2017. Most of his body of work as a coach comes on the offensive side of the ball, working with the offensive line, tight ends, or quarterbacks.

Now all three will pitch in on getting the Cowboys’ line- without Terence Steele, who has also tested positive for COVID– ready for New Orleans.

As for whether McCarthy himself will get personally more involved with that unit for the Week 13 game, the coach had this to say:

“I think the biggest thing is just to make sure that the job description and responsibility is always tight. We feel really good about our game plan process. How we’ll do the group meetings, we’ll spend a little more time together as a group. This is something that I think that this an opportunity for young coaches to take advantage of. Definitely, I’ll be where I need to be this week.”

Philbin tested positive for the virus last week and missed the Thanksgiving Day game versus Las Vegas, as did assistant strength and conditioning coaches Kendall Smith and Cedric Smith.

Blasko handled O-line coaching responsibilities on Thursday; he and Tolzien turned in positive COVID tests since then.

Following the clash with the Saints, the Cowboys will have nine full days off before beginning their final five-game stretch of the regular season, in which they’ll play four divisional games and one against the NFC’s top seed Arizona Cardinals.

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Trio of Cowboys assistant coaches out due to COVID-19

The Dallas Cowboys will be without CeeDee Lamb, Amari Cooper and a trio of assistant coaches

The Dallas Cowboys will be shorthanded in the receiver department for their Thanksgiving game with the Las Vegas Raiders. They also will be missing 3 assistant coaches.

Jay Glazer of FOX Sports reported Thursday Joe Philbin and two other assistants to Mike McCarthy will miss the game after testing positive for COVID-19.

More rough news for Dallas, already without Amari Cooper (Covid), Dallas will now be without three assistant coaches out today bc of COVID, including asst head coach/offensive line coach Joe Philbin who tested positive for today after feeling symptoms

Dallas will also be without wide receivers CeeDee Lamb (concussion) and Amari Cooper (COVID).