Eagles Hire Billy Davis As New Defensive Coordinator
BREAKING NEWS, Coaching Staff, Eagles, News Thursday, February 7th, 2013
According to CSN’s Geoff Mosher, Chip Kelly has decided to hire veteran defensive coach Billy Davis as his defensive coordinator. Davis has coached for quite a few teams in the league and was recently a linebackers coach for the Cleveland Browns. The hiring of Davis just about confirms the Eagles will be switching to a 3-4 defense.
I have learned from a NFL source that a number of coaches have turned down the opportunity. The Birds could have hired Davis a week or two ago if they were so impressed with him. Instead they waited until the Super Bowl was concluded and then they hired Davis. Or to put it more accurately, they settled for Davis.
This definitely wasn’t a decision which is going to impress the Eagles fan base because Davis doesn’t have an impressive resume. Now the Eagles have both offensive and defensive coordinators who were coaching the Cleveland Browns a year ago, Pat Shurmur and Billy Davis.
Davis has coached for the Browns twice, the Panthers, the Packers, the Falcons, the Giants, the 49ers, and the Cardinals. He’s obviously in the coaching fraternity, but I don’t see anything on his resume that shows he’s worthy of getting this job.
The long-time NFL coach has been a defensive coordinator for two organizations, the 49ers in 20005-2006 and the Cardinals in 2009-2010 and each time he did it without distinction. He has never coached a defense which has finished in the top ten in the league in yards given up or number of points surrendered.
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Why would anyone here listen to some1 with the name Eaglessuck! If they suck then why do you care?
What was I thinking??? I forgot about Jarvis Jones!! We wouldn’t take Milliner over Lotulelei. JJ would be far worse. So thats got to be the pick. He is small, over rated, disappeared in the biggest game of his life, and has significant health questions. How could I over look my man JJ. And with the fourth pick in the 2013 NFL draft the Philadelphia Eagles select Jarvis Jones. Perfect!!. That fits right in with all the other moves theyhave made so far.
JBird, they then overreach, for project QB EJ Manuel in the 2nd round & draft all smurfs, & oompa loompas with the rest of the draft! Eagles, after 3 consecutive 3-13 years, Kelly fired! SUPER BOWL BAAAAABY!!!!! I’M ALL IN!!!!
Banner will always out duel Lurie, he’s a heartless bastard that banner, you put him in a an office with a knife, turn the lights off, five minutes later, turn on the lights, everyone is gone except for banner, grinning, yellow teeth, heinous locomotive breath
lmao Jake!! @jbird what do you think of Bjoern Werner as the 4th pick?
********** Rumor: Eagles hire Alabama OL coach Jeff Stoutland ***********
I believe that is true Irish…..I like seeing a successful SEC coach take over the line. We have had a real downturn in the play of the Oline under Mudd….yeah, some injuries, but for many years the Oline was a strength of the team. Here’s hoping that we get back to the days when the Oline was strong.
philly…I don’t like him. He’s a tweener. Too big to play in space and too small to be a 3-4 DE. He is best suited as 4-3 LDE. Joekel and Lotulelei are the only value picks at four IMO. If they are gone, we should trade down for more picks. I probably wouldn’t smash the tv if we took Fisher at 4 like I did when we drafted Graham. I might at least throw something at it if we took Milliner (Sheldon Brown).
lol jbird,how many tvs have you broke over your lifetime? Who do you like as a 3-4 lb?
irish…..don’t tease me. I am not in the mood
Just heard Ossie Newsome say nobody contacted him about asking for permission to talk to any of the assistants on the Ravens, that tells me Ed Donatell must of been their first choice and when the 49ers turned teams down from interviewing him they went with Davis, I believe Pat Shurmur had a lot to do with Davis coming here considering he was on his staff.
i try…. i really do….. but im not getting this hire at all. I see no “shutoutability”, i see no inovation. I see a college geek and 2 browns coaches running the show. I also have not seen many scouting changes so….. are we to believe the drafts will be better?
He then served as a graduate assistant for Dick MacPherson for two years at Syracuse. He then returned to Southern Connecticut where he served as offensive coordinator until 1992. Stoutland then coached the offensive line at Cornell and Syracuse, before moving to Michigan State from 2000 until 2006. During his tenure at Michigan State, Stoutland helped develop six All-Big Ten selections, and led the Big Ten in fewest sacks allowed.[1]
Stoutland spent the four seasons at Miami as the offensive line coach. In 2010, the Hurricanes led the ACC in total offense and were third in rushing. On November 28, 2010, after Miami’s head coach Randy Shannon was fired, Soutland was named interim head coach for the team’s bowl game.[2] Miami lost 33-17 to Notre Dame in Stoutland’s only game as coach.[3]
On January 14, 2011, Stoutland was named Alabama’s offensive line coach, after Joe Pendry retired.[4]
Stoutland was hired by the Philadelphia Eagles to coach their offensive line on February 7th, 2013.
All you GM’s change those mock drafts – Warmack is coming with new OL coach Jeff Stoutland…
Well he might ask Chip to draft him anyway….maybe? Cliff?
Warmack is good, but being smarter than Howie, I wouldn’t draft a guard in the first round no matter who wants him. I would wait until the second round, and draft Larry Warford, and Alabama’s DJ Fluker, as my new Guards Irish.
100% agree Cliff!
I haven’t presented my mock draft yet Irish. I will present it next week, and conclude after the Combine.
GMCliff, I strongly believe that Jeff Fisher wants OT Joeckel or even OT Eric Fisher bad enough that may offer the Eagkes their #16 & #22 picks and maybe thrown in a 4th Rounder or a future 2014 3rd Rounder for the Eagles #4 Pick to get it done..
Question, do you take this Deal if Offered..
The Top 3 OT’s (Joeckel, Fisher & Lane Johnson) will all be gone if the Rams sit tight at #16 & #22
I take this deal in a heartbeat if Damonte Moore Is off the Board
You ripped me a few weeks ago, for the same suggestion, you jerk! I don’t like you no more! LMFAO! I agree Paul. We HAVE TO GET, at least 3 more top end draft picks.
No. I don’t take it. At #4 I have to have a potential All Pro, so I keep it. But, I may attempt to acquire another 1st Rounder- using Mathis, Maclin, Trent Cole, Herramans, and future #1′s – high enough for the Rams to get Fisher, or Johnson, for both #1′s.
I Then draft DeMontre Moore, and Ezekiel Ansah, and I move down the last 1st Rounder, several times for multiple extra 2nd, and 3rd Round picks, and move down in each round for more picks.
Calm down fellas. No none knows how this is going to work out so just relax and breathe easy. How many of you were excited about Jim Johnson when AR hired him? He was a “failure” as well. When Bill Belichek was hited by the patriots he was coming off abject failure as well. that seemed to turn out ok. We eagles fans are way delusional when it comes to this team. Every coach should be a Lombardi and every player must be All Pro or they suck! That’s just plain ridiculous! The Angela Cataldi disease is spreading fast! It needs to be stopped!
Agreed CM….too many moves, trades or hires are reacted to with over-reaction…like you said, the JJ hire would have gotten the same treatment but in the end he proved to be a great hire.
Ill take Warmack,hes a beast!!Trade Herremans and sign Branden Albetrs.That would be an oline!
Thanks for the pep talk concrete_marley…. We are going to move on to the Jeff Stoutland hire now! LOL
Right on Marley!
This really concerns me. There is a reason for why they had a hard time getting themselves a good Def cord. I’m starting to wonder if the problem is really all Roseman. To hire Billy Davis is not only a joke, but sounds to me like this was a desperate move. I was so looking forward to the Eagles hiring a solid up and coming Def cord. This is just pathetic. Way to go you fucking prick
I am not exactly excited about the guy either and feel there were better choices out there but it is what it is. I will have to wait and see. I don’t know how much weight for how his defenses performed, you can place on him and how much weight you can place on the players he had to work with or how lousy his teams offense was at the time. I didn’t do a deep roster analysis of his two periods spent as a DC in SF and AZ but I did notice that the Cards were not much defensively before he took over but did improve slightly in his first year as the DC with basically the same personnel. In 2010, his AZ defense took a nose dive but at least some of that was probably due to Warner retiring and the AZ offense becoming almost completely inept. I would imagine that it is safe to say that defense spent alot of time on the field. Going to the 49er’s period, their defense was horrible the year before he took over and pretty much maintained their horrible status during his two years. This was also his first DC gig so it was likely a steep learning curve. There was a slight improvement the year after he left SF and it looks like half the unit was replaced that season. Hopefully he learned from those experiences…
The most important move the Eagles will make this off season, and this is the guy? Honestly, I dont know much about Davis, so I’ll side with optimism for the time being..I’ll look forward to hearing him speak, to get a gage of his personality…
I forgot to mention that AZ did improve markedly the year after he left there. They also replaced over half their unit and changed to the 4-3.
So did SF!
I honestly never heard of this Davis guy before the birds interviewed him but I can’t realistically say we have no chance because if him. Gus Bradkey who everyone is in such deep man love with had a suckass defense up until this year. Does that make him great because he had one great year? Lets just see what happens. If he sucks I will boo his ass just like everyone else. In the meantime lets cut the femininity and worry about who we are drafting. Players win games. Coaches just manage them.
Yeah Marley! thats exactly right,it hard to know as fans what coaches are good or bad!
Check out the red zone defensive stats for the teams he coached big_moose.
Also, check out how similar his defensive scheme is to Gus Bradley’s. His defensive line scheme is identical to Bradley’s. I would not be surprised is Bradley recommended this guy.
Eagles hired Juan Castillo Oline Coach and he put up better numbers towards the end of the season his first year and into the second before being fired that was an oline coach that hadn’t coached Defense since the 80′s. Now Davis has been a D Coach straight for 21 yrs lets wait and see what we have to work with and what those other coaches we have can do maybe our secret pick will be in the Secondary Coach position that one is still vacant. We shall see but i think we will see a change in the right direction. But i also see the offense scoring so many points the other O will have to play catch up.
The Eagles had to settle for this guy purely because of Roseman’s reputation. I wonder how long it’s going to take Lurie to accept that Banner wasn’t the person that said Roseman is a stooge? How many losses will it take before finally accepts this kid is completely out of his depth.
I hope I’m wrong, but I think people will be begging for Spagnoulo by the end of this year.
You ain’t wrong Butch.
It is one thing to throw out a statement like “many guys turned down the job”…be a reporter Garry and name the names. Or is this just more rumors starting in Cleveland?
THE CHIP SHIP IS SINKING FAST GRAB RUN TO THE LIFE BOAT QUICK. WE ARE GOING TO FUCKING SUCK, WE GET NOBODY FROM THE RAVENS OR 49ERS BUT WE INVADE THE DAM BROWNS WOW.
However I do the signing at O-Line was a good one. Bama baby!
Chip ship sinking faster than titanic, good one pdiddy, don’t worry, it’s all cool, we know Lurie and Roseman will be the first weasels to grab the first life boat when this experiment fails in less than two years, even the orchestra playing the eagles fight song will bail
F^#@ING CLASSIC! Nominated for post of the year!!!! XD
Billy Davis’s defense ranks, while DC- 20th, 26th, 26th, 30th!
ENOUGH SAID!!!!
So we now have the Shurmer and Davis from the Clevland Browns… Really, I mean really… I’m glad Chip doesn’t have a family, because he will need to live at the LINC…
Looks like Banner gets the last laugh…smh