Panthers announce 5 additions to coaching staff on Thursday

The Panthers officially announced five additions to their coaching staff on Thursday.

The Carolina Panthers are putting the finishing touches on their all-star sideline.

As announced by the team on Thursday afternoon, five men have been officially named to head coach Frank Reich’s staff. Two of the five were first reported on last night—by Joe Person of The Athletic and Mike Kaye of The Charlotte Observer, respectively—in offensive assistant Michael Bercovici and defensive assistant Mayur Chaudhari.

Bercovici, a former quarterback for Arizona State University and the Alliance of American Football’s San Diego Fleet, comes over with three years of experience in a similar post with the Arizona Cardinals. Chaudhari, most recently, served as a special teams assistant for the Los Angeles Chargers in 2021 after spending three seasons in the same role with the Atlanta Falcons.

Joining them are Jamel Mutunga and Tyler Boyles. Mutunga, who was an offensive assistant with the Indianapolis Colts last year, will take up the same duties in Carolina while Boyles, a two-year assistant to Reich in Indianapolis, is on for offensive quality control and as an assistant (again) to the head coach.

As for the fifth name, the team has retained Bobby Maffei as a defensive quality control coach. He, under former interim head coach Steve Wilks, worked with the safeties to close out the 2022 campaign.

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Colts make several coaching changes

Colts find a few new coaches.

The Indianapolis Colts made several changes to their coaching staff, including the hiring of three new coaches, the team announced Thursday.

Some of these have been reported while others are new. The Colts hired Brian Baker to be the new defensive line coach, Mike Groh will be the wide receivers coach and Tyler Boyles has been hired to be the Assistant to the Head Coach. Those are the new additions.

A few current coaches also made some changes. Kevin Patullo, the former wide receivers coach, will be moving into a new role called the Pass Game Specialist. Parks Frazier has been named the offensive quality control coach.

The newest addition is Baker, who has immense experience working as a defensive coach—both in the NFL and at the collegiate level. From the release given by the team:

Baker has 36 years of coaching experience, including 19 seasons in the NFL. He served as associate head coach/defensive line coach at Alabama in 2019. From 2016-18, Baker was the defensive line coach at Mississippi State. He was an assistant coach at Covenant Christian Academy of Colleyville (Texas) in 2015. Baker previously spent 19 years (1996-2014) in the NFL and coached eight Pro Bowlers. He spent time on the defensive staffs for the Washington Redskins (2014), Cleveland Browns (2013), Dallas Cowboys (2011-12), Carolina Panthers (2009-2010), St. Louis Rams (2006-08), Minnesota Vikings (2001-05), Detroit Lions (1997-2000) and San Diego Chargers (1996). Baker coached at Georgia Tech from 1987-95. He served as the linebackers coach in each of those years and added the defensive coordinator title in 1995. Baker coached running backs at Army in 1986. He spent two seasons at his alma mater, Maryland, as a graduate assistant (1985) and student assistant (1984). Baker played outside linebacker at Maryland from 1980-83 and helped the Terps win the ACC championship in 1983.

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