NFL coordinators are a little tougher to evaluate than head coaches. For one thing, it can be hard to attribute ownership of offense or defense, when some head coaches prefer to impose a familiar scheme or control playcalling for one side of the ball. For another, coaching staffs tend to shuffle every year or two, so it’s not often that we see the same coach build up his resume with a team. Still, we have a few noteworthy coaches to discuss in our final two articles, so let’s go over them.
Gilbride was a long-tenured NFL coach when he took over as Gregg Williams’s offensive coordinator in 2002.