<p style="font-size:18px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Sumlin, 50, has had a taste of the NFL. He served two minority coaching internships at summer training camps in the 1990s. For all practical purposes, they were graduate courses on offense and defense.

<p style="font-size:18px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">In his first stint under coach Ray Rhodes with the Philadelphia Eagles, he worked with the offense. Sumlin was able to watch new offensive coordinator Jon Gruden implement the West Coast offense and observe Bill Callahan working with the offensive line.

<p style="font-size:18px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">In his second stint under Tony Dungy with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, he was able to spend time with the defense. He wandered over to the defensive side of the building in the evenings and sat in on staff meetings in a think tank that included Dungy, Monte Kiffin, Rod Marinelli, Lovie Smith and Herman Edwards.

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<p style="font-size:18px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">While that was a while back that is great company to learn from.  Just tired of seeing us constantly lose. 

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