(01-22-2024, 06:03 PM)NewJagsCity Wrote: Ugh. Another 'rising star' guy. A project with 1 year of exp. Are we allergic to experienced coordinators, or are we now a DC/OC farm system?

The only experienced DC hires that I can recall off the top of my head are Dom Capers and DEL Rio.  They did pretty well.

Del Rio was our head coach and not our defensive coordinator.

Ryan Nielsen has been coaching in the NFL for the last seven years including having experience as a defensive coordinator, co-defensive coordinator and as an assistant head coach.  He also has a dozen years of college coaching experience including multiple years as a college defensive coordinator.  It's not exactly a weak resume.

In regards to past defensive coordinators, yes, Dom Caper had a long resume.  You forgot Greg Williams.  Prior to the Jaguars, his prior experience included defensive coordinator for four years, assistant head coach-defense for four years and head coach for three years.  Mel Tucker and Bob Babich also both had prior experience as defensive coordinators prior to joining the Jaguars.  Gary Moeller had been an NFL head coach, NFL assistant head coach, college head coach and college defensive coordinator, although technically was never an NFL defensive coordinator.

It's true many of our prior defensive coordinators had never been NFL defensive coordinators before, but that's not always a bad thing.  Mike Smith left the Jaguars to become a head coach.  He remained as head coach with his new team for seven years.  Dick Jauron also left to be a head coach.  He remained five years with that team and later got a job as head coach with a second team for another four years.

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