It may be Jim Schwartz, the above Detroit Lions arch drillmaster who accustomed in Philadelphia on Monday to allocution with new arch drillmaster Doug Pederson. Pederson’s hiring was appear Monday. He will be alien at a account appointment Tuesday.
Schwartz has interviewed for arresting coordinator positions with the Cleveland Browns and Jacksonville Jaguars. He could be alien as the Eagles’ arresting coordinator as anon as Tuesday.
The best of Pederson hearkens aback to Philadelphia's hiring of Andy Reid in 1999. Reid’s primary appoint aloft accepting the job was arresting coordinator Jim Johnson. Beneath Johnson, the Eagles' aegis was able-bodied advanced of Reid’s breach for the aboriginal several years of their collaboration.
If Pederson is searching to carbon that dynamic, he could do worse than Schwartz. The 49-year-old Schwartz bankrupt into the NFL as an abettor with Bill Belichick in Cleveland. He became a arresting coordinator beneath Jeff Fisher in Tennessee in 2002.
Schwartz was assassin as arch drillmaster of the Lions in 2009. He was accursed afterwards 5 seasons and a 29-51 record. He spent one division as arresting coordinator of the Buffalo Bills beneath Doug Marrone. If Marrone accommodated at the end of 2014, Schwartz took a position in the NFL office, accouterment a coach’s angle to the league’s officials.
In his one division with Buffalo, Schwartz took the Bills' aegis from 19th all-embracing in yards accustomed to fourth. The Bills led the NFL with 54 sacks and were fourth in scoring, acceptance 18.1 credibility per game.
Schwartz’s arrangement uses the “Wide 9” alignment that Eagles admirers became all too accustomed with in 2011. Schwartz uses the alignment, which places arresting ends able-bodied alfresco the abhorrent tackles, alone in assertive situations. The Eagles’ use of it beneath arresting band drillmaster Jim Washburn was about criticized, but that was due to their cadre and the scheme’s vulnerability adjoin the run.
Washburn was Schwartz’s arresting band drillmaster in Tennessee, but backward with the Titans if Schwartz went on to drillmaster the Lions. Washburn abutting the Eagles in 2011, but was accursed amid through the 2012 season.
Schwartz’s abject defenses accept been 4-3 schemes. The Eagles ran a 3-4 aegis beneath Chip Kelly and arresting coordinator Bill Davis, but abounding of their bigger arresting players accept acquaintance in the 4-3 scheme. Arresting ends Fletcher Cox and Vinny Curry should be abnormally adequate fits in Schwartz’s scheme.
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