Interview Request for Todd Grantham

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(02-13-2019, 03:15 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: So he went from "solid" to "bad" and "bad".


In '05 and '06, yeah. In 2007, their offense ranked 8th in both yards and points, and was pretty much entirely responsible for their 10-6 record, as Grantham's defense ranked 30th in yards and 21st in points allowed.


Not excited by it at all, not going to lie.


Fair enough. We'll just have to see. I don't find it exciting, but we'll see.

Indianapolis Colts (1999–2001)  -  D line coach


 His D-Line was one of the catalysts of the biggest turnaround in league history (3–13 to 13–3), ultimately helping the Colts defense compile 56 sacks in two years, which was a club record since moving to Indianapolis





Houston Texans (2002–2004)  -  D line coach



constant improvement with strong play from the defensive line each of the 3 years.  In his first year, he took basically the same players who were terrible against the run and turned them into the 13th strongest run defense.

Cleveland Browns (2005–2007) - Defensive coordinator


This is a real outlier, but if you think about the Browns in 2005-2007 you have to understand the type of organization we're talking about.  This is a great quote from a browns news outlet.


"Cleveland seems to bring out the suck in otherwise phenomenal coaches. Perhaps internal tensions within the Browns organization may have contributed to some of that. Perhaps the Browns really do suck that bad, and Grantham just didn't have the mojo to turn the whole thing around all by himself. The NFL, perhaps more than college football, is about talent. Every coach in the NFL has the schematic chops."


During his two years, he only drafted 3 times in the first or second round in the draft and two had very productive careers.  Fact is his team got older and were constantly injured.  




Dallas Cowboys (2008–2009) - Defensive Line coach



During Grantham's 2 seasons with Dallas, the Cowboys improved from 13th (2007) to 2nd (2009) in the league in points allowed.  Despite only getting 1 draft pick in 2009 ( Brandon Williams ) he basically accomplished this with the same roster up front.





Georgia Bulldogs (2010–2013) - Defensive Coordinator /  Assistant Head Coach



In 2009 Bulldogs were ranked 113th Nationally in defense 

2010 they ranked 19th in his first year
2011 they ranked 5th
Georgia defense finished No. 45 in the nation in the 2013–2014 season after new players came in





Louisville Cardinals (2014–2016) - Defensive Coordinator
2014 - No. 1st ranked defense in college
2015 - No. 6st ranked defense in college
2016 - No.18th ranked defense in college


2017 -  After he left it dropped to 62nd ranked defense in college




Mississipi State (2017) - Defensive Coordinator


In what I think was the strangest moves ever in college football coaching Louisville decided to swap coordinators with Mississippi state.


While the Cardinals dropped to 62nd ranked defense he lead Missippi State to the 10th ranked defense in college


just to prove this isn't a just him taking over great defenses.  The year before they were ranked 56th




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So when someone tells me this guy is a failure because he was the defensive coordinator on the browns 14 years ago it's almost laughable.  He has arguably one of the best resumes I've ever seen and we are lucky to get a guy of this caliber this late.