You don’t often get to hear very much from position coaches over the course of a calendar year. You don’t often know exactly what their responsibility is in terms of whether or not their position group is struggling or thriving because of the hierarchy. That all makes it difficult to judge how good a position coach might be.
But I do know one thing so far about new ‘senior defensive assistant’ Teryl Austin, who is essentially the co-defensive backs coach, and that is that I like the way he communicates. He gave a great interview that you can hear on The Fan that, full disclosure, is a blogger’s goldmine that I’ll be harvesting over the next couple of days.