01-27-2016, 02:08 AM
(01-26-2016, 11:35 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: True, but he's had an awful lot of demotions in his coaching career it seems.
Was in college, got an NFL OC/QB Coach job, lost it and went to being an NFL assistant. Had another little run as QB Coach in the NFL, lost it and went back to college. Got another QB job in the NFL, got a OC job in the NFL, lost it, back to QB Coach.
Meanwhile someone like Zimmer went from college assistant, to ILB coach, to DB coach, to DC, to NFL DB coach, to NFL DC, NFL DC, NFL DC, NFL HC.
All an upward arc, you know? Same with Marvin Lewis, same with Paul Geunther, same with Vance Joseph, etc.
Hue Jackson had some extenuating circumstances since the owner who hired him died, but before him, the biggest names I can think of who hadn't been on an upward trajectory was Bob Bratkowski and Chuck Bresnahan, neither of which were enjoyable experiences.
(In fairness to the other side of my point though, I guess Leslie Frazier was on an upward trajectory when he became the Bengals DC in '03.)
Horrible exaggerations here.
Lazor started as an assistant at Cornell, where he played.
He was then OC/QB coach at University of Buffalo
Then spent the next 3 years as an assistant coach in the NFL.
Then the next 4 years as a QB coach.
Then got hired as an OC/QB coach at Virginia.
Then back to the NFL as a QB coach.
Then as an OC.
Now a QB coach again.
There's only one demotion in there. And that's from Miami to here.
In his two seasons in Miami, Lazor had Ryan Tannehill drop his INT rate by nearly a full point and got his QB rating up to 88 and 92 from 76 and 81.
Under Lazor Tannehill's completion % went from 59% to 64% which is a solid number, enough for Palmer and Brady to nearly reach the Super Bowl.
