Pat Shurmur Hired As New Cleveland Browns Head Coach
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http://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/...head_coach.html
BEREA -- Rams offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur has been named the Browns' fifth head coach since they returned as an expansion franchise in 1999.
In doing so, Browns President Mike Holmgren is retracing the path which led him to his first NFL head coaching job in Green Bay 19 years ago.
Shurmur was never a head coach at any level. But like Holmgren and his many eventual coaching proteges, Shurmur learned the NFL game as a quarterbacks coach and then as a coordinator in the pass-first offensive system now commonly referred to as the West Coast offense.
Others who followed the path paved by Holmgren include Steve Mariucci, Andy Reid, Marty Mornhinweg and Brad Childress. Jon Gruden started as a receivers coach before ascending to coordinator and then head coach. Of those, only Mornhinweg failed to reached the playoffs as an NFL head coach.
Shurmur, 45, never worked with Holmgren, but learned his offensive system under Reid in Philadelphia for 10 years -- the last seven as Eagles quarterbacks coach. For eight of those years, Browns General Manager Tom Heckert held various titles as the head of the Eagles' player personnel department.
Shurmur's connections to Holmgren stretch farther. He is the nephew of the late Fritz Shurmur, who was Holmgren's defensive coordinator in Green Bay for five seasons in the 1990s. Shurmur also shares the same agent, Bob LaMonte, as Holmgren and Heckert and numerous other branches of the Holmgren coaching tree.
Shurmur left the Eagles in 2009 to become coordinator in St. Louis under former Eagles defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo. They were members of Reid's initial coaching staff in Philadelphia in 1999.
When Shurmur arrived in St. Louis, the Rams were coming off a 2-14 season and their offense ranked 27th. In 2009, they fell to 1-15 and the offense dipped to 29th. The arrival of quarterback Sam Bradford with the No. 1 choice in the 2010 draft had an instant impact. With Bradford starting every game, the Rams improved to 7-9 and their offensive ranking inched up to 26th.
Like the Browns, the Rams were hampered by an inexperienced receiving corps after injuries wiped out veterans Donnie Avery and Mark Clayton. They were 26th in points with 289 -- five notches ahead of the Browns (31st), who had 271. The Rams' 21 giveaways were eight fewer than the Browns' 29.
Shurmur received some criticism for play selection in the Rams' season-ending 16-6 loss to Seattle, which cost the Rams a spot in the playoffs as NFC West champion. In that game, Rams 1,200-yard running back Steve Jackson carried the ball only 11 times for 45 yards. He had only four rushing attempts in the second half. The Rams had seven possessions in the second half and none longer than six plays.
Shurmur, a native of Dearborn, Mich., was a three-year starter at center for Michigan State University in the late 1980s. He returned to the school in 1990 to launch his coaching career and coached tight ends, special teams and assisted on the offensive line for a span of eight years. He worked under former Browns defensive coordinator Nick Saban the last five years.
Shurmur moved to Stanford University in 1998 as offensive line coach before joining Reid in Philadelphia in 1999 as tight ends coach.
Reid named Shurmur quarterbacks coach in 2002. In that role through 2009, he was position coach for Eagles quarterbacks Donovan McNabb, A.J. Feeley, Koy Detmer, Jeff Garcia, and Kevin Kolb.
Shurmur is the first Browns head coach with purely an offensive background since Chris Palmer in 1999. He represents a final break from the Bill Belichick coaching tree, which spawned the Browns' last two coaches, Eric Mangini and Romeo Crennel.
When he launched the search to replace Mangini, Holmgren tipped off his intentions when he said, "I can get real excited about finding a young guy and having him take the ball and go with it."
Holmgren also said it would be "a pretty wide search ... we're not limiting ourselves in any way."
But only three candidates were formally interviewed. Shurmur was the first, following by Falcons offensive coordinator Mike Mularkey and Giants defensive coordinator Perry Fewell.
Former Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh turned down the Browns' invitation for an interview before he accepted the 49ers head coach job. Also, Gruden, who was considered a hot candidate before the search began because of his history with Holmgren, never was interviewed and said he would return to the ESPN announcing booth in 2011.
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Just heard breaking news on WKNR, Pat Shurmur hired as coach of the Cleveland Browns. I'm still not sure I like this pick. I guess we will see. The "rebuild" continues!
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Thanks for merging my thread with this one. I think I added mine just as this one went up.
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Shurmur....worked under former Browns defensive coordinator Nick Saban the last five years.
Shurmur is the first Browns head coach with purely an offensive background since Chris Palmer in 1999. He represents a final break from the Bill Belichick coaching tree, which spawned the Browns' last two coaches, Eric Mangini and Romeo Crennel.
Uh, if Shurmur worked for so long under Nick Saban I think it CAN be fair to say that he is also a member of the Bill Belichick "coaching tree"....as Saban of course was the DC here with Belichick for the 5 years BB was here.
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How about this then, biblical style:
Paul Brown begat:
...Bill Walsh who begat:
......Mike Holmgren who begat:
.........Andy Reid who begat:
............Pat Shurmur.
So? Is Shurmur just a matter of bringing it all home to the shores of Lake Erie?
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How about this then, biblical style:
Paul Brown begat:
...Bill Walsh who begat:
......Mike Holmgren who begat:
.........Andy Reid who begat:
............Pat Shurmur.
So? Is Shurmur just a matter of bringing it all home to the shores of Lake Erie?
How about this then, biblical style:
Paul Brown begat:
...Bill Walsh who begat:
......Mike Holmgren who begat:
.........Andy Reid who begat:
............Pat Shurmur.
So? Is Shurmur just a matter of bringing it all home to the shores of Lake Erie?
i like your style.
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Im more interested in who pat will choose for his trusty sidekick coordinators because that overall is more telling of his ability to coach this team...
There is so little about shurmur so few headlines just celebrating rams fans glad to be rid of him, they should make their way to the board soon to give us their condolences as many are apologetic that we got him as a HC, many dont think he was ready to be an OC and cant believe he is now a HC.
I dont care much for spags and i know how his system works so we gotta give coach shumur the benefit of doubt here...hehehehehe
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Is there going to be a press conference? I would like to see what Shurmur has to say...
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I like it a lot. It basically signals that the Browns are going to be Holmgren's team... and Holmgren is the prized pupil of my favorite coach of all time, Bill Walsh. In the WCO Mafia, Shurmur is the next guy up. My gut says if not for two years helping to turn around a truly busted franchise, if he were coming off 10 years with the Eagles and 7 as the QB coach, we'd like the pick. That's how Mariucci became the Niners head coach, right? From Green Bay QB coach to SF head coach.
I'm sure we'll see an OC from that tree, maybe Bevell. Not sure if we'll keep Ryan and the 3-4 (my preference) or go all in and hire John Fox to overhaul it.
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Is there going to be a press conference? I would like to see what Shurmur has to say...
Is there going to be a press conference? I would like to see what Shurmur has to say...
tomorrow 11:30
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It barely got mentioned on Sportscenter..like a basketball score..Rebuilding..Rebuilding..He has less then 24 months to get to the play offs right.
Thats what the last guy got and he started from ground zero.
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Dustin Fox makes the Harbaugh/Tomlin connection without naming them:
http://www.cantonrep.com/browns/x174523428...ns-headquarters
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The only thing that I don't like hearing about this is that "Shurmur also shares the same agent, Bob LaMonte, as Holmgren and Heckert and numerous other branches of the Holmgren coaching tree." I don't like that Holmgren limits ALL of his searches to within his agents client list.
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welcome pat. let's not have any negative "this guy sucks and he will fail" comments. give the guy a chance.
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And so it began, lets see what the guy has give him a chance and look foward to adding some much needed pieces in the draft
And so it began, lets see what the guy has give him a chance and look foward to adding some much needed pieces in the draft
He has all of the tools necessary to win now or Mangini wouldn't have been fired for his number of wins. The wait is over playoffs this year easily
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Is there going to be a press conference? I would like to see what Shurmur has to say...
Is there going to be a press conference? I would like to see what Shurmur has to say...
Yeah. Me too.
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Like that he's been a part of winning teams:
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