MIAMI (AP) – Joe Philbin was once hired by Mike Sherman in Green Bay. On Friday, Philbin returned the favor.The new coach of the Miami Dolphins hired Sherman as offensive coordinator on Friday, also adding Kevin Coyle as the team's defensive coordinator. Combined, the 57-year-old Sherman and the 56-year-old Coyle have 68 years of football coaching experience.
"They are exactly what I am
looking for in terms of leadership, character, and teaching ability,"
Philbin said. "They are both very passionate about the game of football
and the players they coach, and that enthusiasm is evident in the
meetings rooms and on the field. They are excellent family men and I'm
thrilled they are joining the Dolphins' football family. I can't wait to
get started to work with them."
In Sherman's case, that's more like a reunion than anything Sherman and Philbin have a relationship
that goes back decades — Sherman was once Philbin's high school English
teacher. When Sherman was head coach at Green Bay, he gave Philbin his
first NFL coaching job.
Sherman
joins Miami after four years as head coach at Texas A&M. He also
has been on the staffs at Seattle and Houston, along with college stops
at Tulane, Holy Cross and UCLA.
Coyle
has been a coach in Cincinnati since 2001, serving the last nine of
those years as the Bengals' defensive backs coach. He has been a
defensive coordinator at the college level at schools including
Syracuse, Maryland, Fresno State, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and Holy Cross, and has also worked as a collegiate assistant at Cincinnati and Arkansas.
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