Tag: Quarterbacks Coach

Raiders former OC returns for third go round, this time as QB coach

Twice former Raiders offensive coordinator Greg Olson is back as quarterbacks coach under OC Chip Kelly.

A very familiar face to the Raiders is returning to the team with the new coaching staff. Greg Olson is back in Silver & Black for his third go round. The twice former Raiders offensive coordinator will be the Raiders QB coach under new OC Chip Kelly.

New head coach Pete Carroll is also familiar with Olson as he was Carroll’s QB coach in his final season with the Seahawks.

Olson first joined the Raiders in 2013 as OC under then head coach Dennis Allen and was ousted along with the rest of Allen’s staff following the 2014 season.

He was lured back to the Raiders by Jon Gruden to be his OC and once again was out after Gruden was forced to resign and the staff was not brought back.

So, basically every other coaching staff for more than a decade has brought Olson back into the fold. The difference this time is he will be the QB coach instead of offensive coordinator. A position Olson has held with seven NFL clubs dating back to 2001.

Report: Cowboys interview Schottenheimer’s former right hand to tutor Dak Prescott

A former assistant with Schotty in Seattle, Joseph has experience on both sides of the ball. | From @ArmyChiefW3

The Dallas Cowboys are off and running in looking to form their staff for 2025. While Jerry Jones likes his staffs small in nature, there will have to be some hires. Bringing Matt Eberflus aboard as defensive coordinator seems to have hit a compliance snag, and while waiting for that, Brian Schottenheimer is looking for other candidates.

Dallas has interviewed former CFL standout Kerry Joseph for the team’s open quarterback coach opening.

Joseph spent last season in Chicago developing rookie quarterback Caleb Williams, the first overall pick in the 2024 NFL draft. The Bears hired Joseph almost a year to the day, but a change in their coaching staff made him available.

Before his lone year in Chicago, Joseph spent four seasons in Seattle serving as an offensive assistantm including in 2020 under then-offensive coordinator Schottenheimer. He would be Seattle’s assistant receivers coach in 2021, then an assistant quarterbacks coach from 2022 through the 2023 season.

His potential addition would replace former quarterback Scott Tolzien who served as the Cowboys QB coach from 2022 through 2024 and spent the last four seasons as an offensive assistant in some capacity.

Joseph was a dual-threat quarterback at McNeese State before latching on with the Bengals as an undrafted free agent in 1996. He also spent time with Washington before making the jump to defense for the Rhein Fire of NFL Europe.

The switch to defensive back landed him with Seattle and played four seasons for the Seahawks appearing in 56 games including 14 starts.

The Ottowa Renegades from the Canadian Football League (CFL) came calling in 2003 asking him to play quarterback. In 2007 with the Saskatchewan Roughriders, Joseph led his team to the Grey Cup Championship and was named the CFL’s Most Valuable Player.

There are conflicting reports on if Broncos QBs coach is a HC candidate

There are conflicting reports on whether or not the Saints want to interview Broncos quarterbacks coach Davis Webb.

Eventually, Denver Broncos quarterbacks coach Davis Webb seems likely to become a head coach candidate in the NFL. It remains to be seen if that will happen in 2025.

Jordan Schultz of Fox Sports reported late Tuesday evening that the New Orleans Saints requested an interview with Webb for their head coach opening. About eight hours later, Nick Underhill of NewOrleans.Football reported that New Orleans has not requested an interview with Webb.

It’s curious that this exact scenario has happened twice now.

Earlier this week, NFL Network’s Jane Slater reported that New Orleans planned to interview Broncos senior personnel executive David Shaw for their head coach opening. Less than two hours later, Underhill reported the Saints “do not have plans” to interview Shaw.

Slater and Schultz are reputable reporters, so it seems that either their sources are getting inaccurate information, or New Orleans is having Underhill shoot down stories they don’t want in the public.

Underhill’s latest counter-report on Webb has been endorsed by NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport and ProFootballTalk.com’s Mike Florio, so it seems safe to say Webb won’t interview for the Saints’ head coach opening.

Webb could draw interest from other teams, though, and it wouldn’t be surprising to see him pop up as an offensive coordinator candidate when new head coaches start making hires in the coming weeks. Stay tuned.

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Report: Wisconsin football has its new quarterbacks coach

Report: Wisconsin football hires new quarterbacks coach

Wisconsin football is moving wide receivers coach Kenny Guiton to quarterbacks coach, according to ESPN’s Pete Thamel.

Luke Fickell expressed his desire to hire a designated quarterbacks coach when meeting with the media after the 2024 season concluded. That move comes from within, leaving the team with a soon-to-be-filled vacancy at wide receivers coach.

Related: Tracking Wisconsin football’s transfer portal offers, visits and commitments

Guiton joined the Badgers for the 2024 season after three years as Arkansas’ wide receivers coach (2021-23). That followed previous stops at Colorado State (2020), Louisiana Tech (2019) and Houston (2017-18).

The rising assistant does not have any experience coaching quarterbacks.

Guiton played the position at Ohio State from 2009-13, however. He played in 22 games during his career with the Buckeyes, completing 66.4% of passes for 893 yards, 16 touchdowns and four interceptions. He appeared in eight games (two starts) as a senior in 2013, throwing for 749 yards, 14 touchdowns and two interceptions, plus rushing for 330 yards and five touchdowns on 40 carries. Guiton’s time in Columbus overlapped with Fickell’s — the current Badgers head coach was Ohio State’s co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach from 2005-16.

Guiton moves over to coach a quarterback room that enters 2025 with Billy Edwards Jr. (transfer, Maryland), Danny O’Neil (transfer, San Diego State) and Carter Smith (true freshman). The room saw a top-down turnover during the winter portal window, as Tyler Van Dyke, Braedyn Locke, Mabrey Mettauer and Cole LaCrue all transferred out.

Wisconsin is ushering in a new offensive system under coordinator Jeff Grimes. Guiton’s work with the quarterbacks will be among the most important factors in the team’s success both in 2025 and beyond.

Fickell will now search for a new wide receivers coach to round out his staff.

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Do the Broncos have any future head coaches on Sean Payton’s staff?

Vance Joseph is the most likely candidate among Broncos coaches to draw head coach interest this offseason.

The best NFL teams often lose members of their coaching staff during the offseason. It’s a good problem to have.

For the Denver Broncos, defensive coordinator Vance Joseph is the most obvious and most likely candidate to draw head coach interest this offseason. Someday in the future, quarterbacks coach Davis Webb might also get looks as a potential head coach candidate.

Sean Payton’s coaching tree includes Dan Campbell, Doug Marrone and Dennis Allen. Are there any coaches on his current staff who could become head coaches in the future?

“It’s an interesting league,” Payton said in June. “We went through — you hear the term that it is a copycat league. There is success with let’s say a young Sean McVay, then there is a couple of years where I am getting calls from GMs asking about not only candidates on my staff, but other candidates. It was always, ‘We are interested in an offensive play-caller.’ So I would say, ‘So you are not interested in the next Bill Belichick?’ I think this past year, we saw a number of defensive coaches. We’ve seen special teams coaches with John Harbaugh, who I worked with in Philly. We’ve seen offensive line coaches. There is a little cycle to that.

“Ultimately, you are looking for and projecting who can lead. Sometimes, I think it is a little like the quarterback position. You may have a talented prospect that maybe ends up in the wrong place. In three years, he is back in the coordinator’s role and who knows if he ended up in another place. I’ve shared that story with you and the late [former Saints owner] Mr. [Tom] Benson coming to me those early years and saying, ‘Hey, we have all of these coaches getting interviews for head jobs. I said, ‘Mr. B, we need to worry if no one is interviewing them.’ I love seeing what Dan Campbell is doing, I love seeing Dennis Allen now, Doug Marrone and a number of these guys that I have worked with. I want that for them. It’s hard to predict though.” 

Payton wasn’t willing to give any predictions earlier this year, but Joseph seems likely to get interviews this offseason. Joseph, of course, previously served as Denver’s head coach from 2017-2018. We’ll see if other teams come calling in the offseason.

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Broncos have a promising up-and-coming coach in Davis Webb

Broncos coaches have been full of praise for young quarterbacks coach Davis Webb.

The Denver Broncos seem to have a gem in Davis Webb.

The 29-year-old coach was a backup quarterback in the NFL from 2017-2022 before jumping straight into coaching with the Broncos in 2023. Sean Payton hired Webb as the team’s quarterbacks coach last fall and the young coach quickly drew praise from his new boss.

“He’s been a great asset,” Payton said in 2023. Added offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi: “I certainly see a bright future for him in the coaching profession.”

After hiring Payton and Webb, Denver saw quarterback Russell Wilson improve his completion, touchdown and interception totals from 2022-2023. The Broncos moved on from Wilson this spring and Webb is now helping mentor the team’s rookie quarterback, Bo Nix.

“He has a lot of experience obviously playing the position, and that’s always helpful,” Lombardi said in June earlier this year. “A lot of energy, smart, works really hard. His meetings are always prepared. He gives them a lot of good information but makes them entertaining. He’s just really good with the technology and using the audio-visual to maximize the learning experience. [He’s] just real sharp and a hard worker, and that’s what you want from coaches. [He’s] easy to get along with.”

Payton has also praised Webb for those traits, and Nix is putting together a case to win Offensive Rookie of the Year this fall. Payton is the mastermind, of course, but a great head coach is aided by a great staff, and Webb’s experience at quarterback has been huge for Denver.

“I obviously went through it, and I had Eli Manning in the room, which was pretty great,” Webb said in June when asked about his experience playing QB in the NFL. “[Nix] has a different experience with ‘Stiddy’ (Jarrett Stidham) being his second year in the offense, Zach [Wilson] being in multiple systems throughout his career. So it’s a good room to have that for a young guy.

“Over the offseason, I called plenty of coaches, plenty of former teammates just kind of talking, ‘Hey, back then this is what we did. What would you change? What would you like now? What was really important? What wasn’t?’ So that’s been a process honestly since February in regards to just gathering information and kind of getting everybody ready.”

If Webb is going to move up the coaching ranks as some in Denver believe he will, the next logical progression would be an eventual promotion to offensive coordinator — either with the Broncos or elsewhere. After that, Davis could perhaps one day become a head coach candidate. That’s a conversation for down the road. For now, Denver’s happy to have Webb coaching up the team’s QBs.

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Ex-Broncos assistant coach has Saints’ offense flying

Former Broncos QBs coach Klint Kubiak is now the offensive coordinator of the highest-scoring offense in the NFL.

It’s tough to watch a player leave your team and find success elsewhere. The same can happen with coaches.

At a time when the Denver Broncos‘ offense is struggling to move the ball and score points, the New Orleans Saints are flying. Through two weeks, the Saints have scored 91 points, an average of 45.5 points a game. The Broncos, meanwhile have scored 26 points through two weeks, an average of 13 points per game.

The New Orleans attack is being led by offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak, the son of former Broncos coach Gary Kubiak. The younger Kubiak has “completely renovated” the Saints’ offense. Also on staff in New Orleans are ex-Denver offensive coaches Rick Dennison and Clancy Barone.

Kubiak, 37, was a passing game coordinator with the San Francisco 49ers in 2023 after holding that title plus quarterback coach duties with the Broncos in 2022. He was an offensive assistant in Denver from 2016-2018 before a three-year run with the Minnesota Vikings.

Klint was initially hired to join Gary’s staff with the Broncos in 2016, and he later followed his dad to Minnesota. There was no nepotism involved when Denver re-hired Klint in 2022 as part of Nathaniel Hackett’s staff.

Sean Payton arrived in 2023 and cleared out nearly all of Hackett’s staff, including Kubiak. Payton joined the Broncos with a reputation as an offensive genius, but he hasn’t been able to kickstart Denver’s offense thus far. Kubiak, meanwhile, is off to a great start with the Saints.

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Broncos HC Sean Payton praises QBs coach Davis Webb

“He was tremendous on keeping things simple and knowing how to read certain plays,” Broncos HC Sean Payton said of QB coach Davis Webb.

Earlier this offseason, Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton said quarterbacks coach Davis Webb is part of a “new generation” of coaches that utilizes digital files in a way Payton has “no idea” how to access or organize.

Webb, 29, is less than half the age of Payton, 60. He spent six years as a backup quarterback in the NFL before Payton recruited him to coaching last spring. So far, so good for the young coach.

“[H]is meetings are extremely organized,” Payton said on May 30. “He’s played the position. I think even as a player at this level, when you talk to — and I spoke with Eli [Manning] and various players. He was tremendous on keeping things simple and knowing how to read certain plays and how to approach the game. I think he’s very positive with these guys.” 

Payton retold a story about the hiring process that he shared last offseason. The Broncos had scheduled other interviews for after Webb’s appointment but Payton decided to cancel them.

“You’ve heard the story: when I interviewed him, you get kind of caught in a schedule,” Payton said. “Tomorrow we’re going to interview [somebody else], and then here he is driving to the airport, and I’m thinking, ‘What am I doing?’ We called the driver and brought him back and hired him.”

Webb is only two years older than Jarrett Stidham, but he’s been in the NFL longer than any of the team’s three QBs, and he connects with them well.

“Davis brings energy, experience and almost like that wily veteran quarterback that’s in the room, which I think is a plus,” Payton said. 

After coaching Russell Wilson last year, Davis will now work with Stidham, Zach Wilson and rookie Bo Nix in 2024. Just like Payton, Davis got his first job in the NFL as a QB coach. Now he’ll aim to replicate Payton’s success.

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Broncos QBs coach Davis Webb will lead West offense at East-West Shrine Bowl

Broncos QBs coach Davis Webb will serve as the West team’s offensive coordinator at the East-West Shrine Bowl next month.

Denver Broncos quarterbacks coach Davis Webb will get a close look at quarterbacks featured in this year’s East-West Shrine Bowl.

Webb has been named the offensive coordinator for the West team. Quarterbacks set to participate in the East-West Shrine Bowl include Devin Leary (Kentucky), John Rhys Plumlee (UCF), Jack Plummer (Louisville), Austin Reed (Western Kentucky), Kedon Slovis (BYU) and Jordan Travis (Florida State). Those QBs have not yet been assigned to specific teams.

Webb, 28, was a backup quarterback in the NFL from 2017-2022. He retired as a player last spring to become Denver’s QBs coach under new head coach Sean Payton.

Although he only has one year of experience under his belt, Webb has already been dubbed a coach to watch for promotion in the coming years. Webb impressed Payton in 2023 and he also drew praise from Broncos offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi.

Webb now gets another opportunity to gain valuable coaching experience while also scouting QBs for Denver ahead of April’s draft. The 2024 East-West Shrine Bowl will be played in Frisco, Texas on Thursday, Feb. 1.

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Broncos HC Sean Payton impressed with QBs coach Davis Webb

“I’m really impressed with his teaching ability and his style. He’s organized, and I think it’s invaluable for the quarterback.”

Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton brought in two rookie coaches this offseason who both played in the NFL just last year.

After hanging up their cleats, Davis Webb joined as quarterbacks coach and Chris Banjo joined as an assistant special teams coach.

Payton was asked about Webb after a training camp practice earlier this month.

“He’s been a great asset,” Payton said on Aug. 17. “He’s smart and it’s unusual to get a player — we have two, he and Chris. [They] were literally playing a year ago and are now coaching. He’s prepared. I’m really impressed with his teaching ability and his style. He’s organized, and I think it’s invaluable for the quarterback. You have someone who actually understands it. We have a number of guys who are in the quarterback meetings, but on a daily basis, he’s been really good.

“I told this story after he finished his interview. You get into this routine after an interview. You go, ‘Alright, let’s get him to the airport and the next one.’ I’m sitting and talking to George [Paton] and I’m thinking to myself, ‘Why are we letting him leave? I know better.’ We called him up. I called the driver up and brought him back and hired him. I’m glad we did that.”

Webb, 28, was a backup with the New York Giants in 2017, then with the New York Jets in 2018 and with the Buffalo Bills from 2019-2021. Buffalo wanted Webb to retire and become their QBs coach after the 2021 season, but Webb decided to spend another season as a player.

After serving as a backup with the Giants again in 2022, Webb decided to retire and he interviewed for Denver’s QB coach opening. Payton let Webb leave the building but quickly brought him back to hire him. The former QB will make his coaching debut when the Broncos host the Las Vegas Raiders in Week 1.

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