Coordinator Thread...and rest of staff

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The Vikings offensive lines under Pat Morris’ direction have performed despite roster movement and have answered the call regardless of the task. Morris enters his 14th NFL season in 2010 with a track record of success developing linemen that are adept pass and run blockers.

In the past 13 seasons (1997-2009), Morris has coached lines that have cleared the way for the NFL’s #1 rushing attack 3 times (1998, ‘99, ‘07) and ranked in the NFL’s top 10 on 8 occasions.

The 2009 Vikings adapted to starting rookie 2nd-round pick Phil Loadholt at RT and inserting 2nd-year pro John Sullivan at center to make his debut as a starter. The unit didn’t skip a beat and featured a pair of Pro Bowlers in LT Bryant McKinnie and perennial choice LG Steve Hutchinson while Loadholt was an All-Rookie honoree. The line helped RB Adrian Peterson earn All-Pro and Pro Bowl honors while setting a new team record with 18 rushing TDs to lead the NFL. Peterson notched 1,383 yards on the ground, the 3rd-best total in Vikings history.

The 2009 team also protected 40-year-old QB Brett Favre as he posted one of the best statistical seasons of his career. The front line kept Favre safe against the playoff-bound Green Bay Packers in both games during the season, not allowing a sack or thrown an INT against the NFL’s #2 total defense. Favre did not throw an INT in 10 games on the season and was not sacked in 3 games during the season. Favre’s protection and the efficiency of the running game keyed the Vikings to a 2nd straight NFC North title, a berth in the NFC Championship game and a 12-4 regular season mark, tied for the 2nd-most wins in Vikings history.

The Vikings powerful 2008 rushing attack was key to the club winning the NFC North title with a 10-6 mark, the 1st Division championship for the Vikings since 2000. In his 2nd NFL season, Peterson became the 1st Viking to lead the league in rushing and broke team records with 1,760 yards rushing and 10 games over the 100-yard mark. Hutchinson was named 1st-Team All-Pro and went to his 3rd straight Pro Bowl in his 3 seasons with Minnesota.

The 2007 Vikings featured the top-ranked rushing offense in the NFL and set a team record with 2,634 rushing yards. The team set a franchise record with a 5.33 yard per carry average, scored 22 rushing TDs, and had 8 games on the season featuring a 100-yard rushing performance. The Vikings posted the top 2 team rushing performances in the NFL in ’07 with a team-record 378 yards on the ground vs. San Diego and 311 yards at Chicago.

Two of Morris’ players, C Matt Birk and Hutchinson, earned Pro Bowl honors for their performances in 2007 for the 2nd consecutive season, which was the 1st time since 1999-2000 that the Vikings had 2 offensive linemen earn the honor in back-to-back years. Peterson joined veteran Chester Taylor as the tandem combined to rush for a team-record 2,185 yards. In his 5th NFL game Peterson broke the Vikings single-game rushing record with 224 yards on the ground at Chicago and 3 games later he set a new NFL record with 296 rushing on the ground against San Diego. Peterson ended the season with 1,341 yards to finish 2nd in the NFL rushing race and post the 2nd-best single-season rushing mark in Vikings history. Peterson and Taylor became the 1st Vikings RB duo to rush for consecutive 1,000-yard seasons in Vikings history.

In 2006 Taylor took advantage of his 1st full-time starting role in the NFL to run for 1,216 yards, the 4th-highest single-season total in team history. The Vikings posted 5 games with a 100-yard rusher on the season, which matched the 2004 and 2005 Vikings teams combined.

Morris spent 2004 and 2005 in the NFC North as the offensive line coach for the Detroit Lions on Steve Mariucci’s staff.

Before joining the Lions, Morris spent 7 seasons with the San Francisco 49ers, 2 as TEs/assistant offensive line coach (1997-98) and 5 as OL coach (1999-2003), and 6 of those seasons (1997-02) were under Mariucci. During the 6 seasons under Mariucci, the 49ers made the playoffs 4 times with a pair of NFC West titles. During his time with the 49ers, the team totaled the 2nd-highest rushing total in the NFL, averaging 135.5 yards per game over the 7-year span. San Francisco’s offensive line cleared the way for 5 2,000-yard rushing seasons, with 2,544 in 1998 (franchise record), 2,095 in 1999, 2,244 in 2000, 2,244 in 2002, and 2,279 in 2003. Four offensive linemen played in the Pro Bowl during Morris’ time working with the line, including G Kevin Gogan (1998), G Ray Brown (2002), C Jeremy Newberry (2002-03), and G Ron Stone (2003). The 49ers had 1,000-yard rushers in 6 of Morris’ 7 seasons with the team, including Garrison Hearst’s franchise-record 1,570 yards in 1998.

Morris also has familiarity with the state of Minnesota from his 4 seasons at the University of Minnesota (1979-82) as offensive line coach under Joe Salem. He spent a season at Northern Arizona (1978) before joining the Gophers’ staff. Morris began his coaching career at Southern California as a graduate assistant from 1976-77. He graduated from USC following his playing days in 1976.

During his college playing and coaching career, Morris was associated with 5 Rose Bowl teams and 2 national championships. Morris was born in Cleveland, OH, and is married to wife, Kathy.

Originally posted by nw49erfan:

Originally posted by 602_JamestownAve:
How about bringing back Ray Rhodes to whip them DB's into shape. Maybe one of his good ol' "losing is like letting someone come in your house and beat your kids and rape your wife" speeches would do them some good. And his is one of only a couple of coaches from the Walsh and Seifert(he does also) years that has all 5 Super Bowl rings.

I love this idea, the only question I have is how is his health? I'm up in the Seattle area and he had to be re-leaved of his defensive coordinator position and moved into an adviser roll because of health issues. The Seahawk defense went from being pretty good to awful after John Marshall had to take over. I just don't want to see another situation like what happened with the Seahawks and Alex Gibbs where he resigned a week before the season started because he was worried about his health.

Originally posted by 49ersrock75:

Originally posted by RedWaltz24:
Stanford looking in-house for HC

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=6002373

Shaw-OC
Fangio-DC

Chris Peterson to Stanford.

Originally posted by SandSlingin49er:
So def. not trying to rush a good thing, but when are we going to find out who the staff is, position coaches, OC/DC....

Any guesses ?????

Originally posted by Kalen49ers:

Originally posted by SandSlingin49er:
So def. not trying to rush a good thing, but when are we going to find out who the staff is, position coaches, OC/DC....

Any guesses ?????

Hard to say really. Some guys we may want will be interviewing for HC spots. Might take a good week or two.

Originally posted by PatrickJira411:
Ray Sherman- Wide Receivers Coach. Has plenty of background in the WCO. Was an assistant with the 49ers (91-93)

Originally posted by CrunchE:

Originally posted by brucesf49:

Originally posted by CrunchE:
I'm not interested in bringing in past 49er greats as position coaches. If they haven't had the itch to coach this point in their retirement it's probably not something they would excell at anyhow.

As far as the ocasional apperance or assistance I'm all for that. In fact it should be mandetory.

Yeah, I'm not interested in having pure excellence around either

Can't we just take Rice's mojo and inject it into Crabtree by now?

Originally posted by PatrickJira411:
Ray Sherman- Wide Receivers Coach. Has plenty of background in the WCO. Was an assistant with the 49ers (91-93)

Originally posted by PTulini:
How about Pat Morris as O-line coach? He was just fired from the Minnesota Vikings.

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The Vikings offensive lines under Pat Morris’ direction have performed despite roster movement and have answered the call regardless of the task. Morris enters his 14th NFL season in 2010 with a track record of success developing linemen that are adept pass and run blockers.

In the past 13 seasons (1997-2009), Morris has coached lines that have cleared the way for the NFL’s #1 rushing attack 3 times (1998, ‘99, ‘07) and ranked in the NFL’s top 10 on 8 occasions.

The 2009 Vikings adapted to starting rookie 2nd-round pick Phil Loadholt at RT and inserting 2nd-year pro John Sullivan at center to make his debut as a starter. The unit didn’t skip a beat and featured a pair of Pro Bowlers in LT Bryant McKinnie and perennial choice LG Steve Hutchinson while Loadholt was an All-Rookie honoree. The line helped RB Adrian Peterson earn All-Pro and Pro Bowl honors while setting a new team record with 18 rushing TDs to lead the NFL. Peterson notched 1,383 yards on the ground, the 3rd-best total in Vikings history.

The 2009 team also protected 40-year-old QB Brett Favre as he posted one of the best statistical seasons of his career. The front line kept Favre safe against the playoff-bound Green Bay Packers in both games during the season, not allowing a sack or thrown an INT against the NFL’s #2 total defense. Favre did not throw an INT in 10 games on the season and was not sacked in 3 games during the season. Favre’s protection and the efficiency of the running game keyed the Vikings to a 2nd straight NFC North title, a berth in the NFC Championship game and a 12-4 regular season mark, tied for the 2nd-most wins in Vikings history.

The Vikings powerful 2008 rushing attack was key to the club winning the NFC North title with a 10-6 mark, the 1st Division championship for the Vikings since 2000. In his 2nd NFL season, Peterson became the 1st Viking to lead the league in rushing and broke team records with 1,760 yards rushing and 10 games over the 100-yard mark. Hutchinson was named 1st-Team All-Pro and went to his 3rd straight Pro Bowl in his 3 seasons with Minnesota.

The 2007 Vikings featured the top-ranked rushing offense in the NFL and set a team record with 2,634 rushing yards. The team set a franchise record with a 5.33 yard per carry average, scored 22 rushing TDs, and had 8 games on the season featuring a 100-yard rushing performance. The Vikings posted the top 2 team rushing performances in the NFL in ’07 with a team-record 378 yards on the ground vs. San Diego and 311 yards at Chicago.

Two of Morris’ players, C Matt Birk and Hutchinson, earned Pro Bowl honors for their performances in 2007 for the 2nd consecutive season, which was the 1st time since 1999-2000 that the Vikings had 2 offensive linemen earn the honor in back-to-back years. Peterson joined veteran Chester Taylor as the tandem combined to rush for a team-record 2,185 yards. In his 5th NFL game Peterson broke the Vikings single-game rushing record with 224 yards on the ground at Chicago and 3 games later he set a new NFL record with 296 rushing on the ground against San Diego. Peterson ended the season with 1,341 yards to finish 2nd in the NFL rushing race and post the 2nd-best single-season rushing mark in Vikings history. Peterson and Taylor became the 1st Vikings RB duo to rush for consecutive 1,000-yard seasons in Vikings history.

In 2006 Taylor took advantage of his 1st full-time starting role in the NFL to run for 1,216 yards, the 4th-highest single-season total in team history. The Vikings posted 5 games with a 100-yard rusher on the season, which matched the 2004 and 2005 Vikings teams combined.

Morris spent 2004 and 2005 in the NFC North as the offensive line coach for the Detroit Lions on Steve Mariucci’s staff.

Before joining the Lions, Morris spent 7 seasons with the San Francisco 49ers, 2 as TEs/assistant offensive line coach (1997-98) and 5 as OL coach (1999-2003), and 6 of those seasons (1997-02) were under Mariucci. During the 6 seasons under Mariucci, the 49ers made the playoffs 4 times with a pair of NFC West titles. During his time with the 49ers, the team totaled the 2nd-highest rushing total in the NFL, averaging 135.5 yards per game over the 7-year span. San Francisco’s offensive line cleared the way for 5 2,000-yard rushing seasons, with 2,544 in 1998 (franchise record), 2,095 in 1999, 2,244 in 2000, 2,244 in 2002, and 2,279 in 2003. Four offensive linemen played in the Pro Bowl during Morris’ time working with the line, including G Kevin Gogan (1998), G Ray Brown (2002), C Jeremy Newberry (2002-03), and G Ron Stone (2003). The 49ers had 1,000-yard rushers in 6 of Morris’ 7 seasons with the team, including Garrison Hearst’s franchise-record 1,570 yards in 1998.

Morris also has familiarity with the state of Minnesota from his 4 seasons at the University of Minnesota (1979-82) as offensive line coach under Joe Salem. He spent a season at Northern Arizona (1978) before joining the Gophers’ staff. Morris began his coaching career at Southern California as a graduate assistant from 1976-77. He graduated from USC following his playing days in 1976.

During his college playing and coaching career, Morris was associated with 5 Rose Bowl teams and 2 national championships. Morris was born in Cleveland, OH, and is married to wife, Kathy.

Originally posted by alburns:
wide receivers coach: jerry rice

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According to sources, Marc Trestman, head coach of the Montreal Alouettes of the CFL, is drawing consideration for NFL offensive coordinator jobs. The 49ers contacted him Friday. The Panthers are considering him because he lives in Charlotte, N.C., during CFL offseasons. …