Beardown wrote:
Be pretty dumb to hire Mangini as Offensive Coordinator. Since, you know, he's a defensive coach. Hate to break that to all of you cuz everybody is all excited about this. He was Belicheck's defensive coordinator in New England and had other assistant defensive jobs before that.
I know Harbaugh had him as TE coach. But he has a defensive backround.
Looks like he's had more offensive experience besides under Harbaugh according to this interesting article. He knows both offense and defense.
http://www.sacbee.com/sports/nfl/san-fr ... 05155.htmlMangini said coaching tight ends was a “totally new world for me” but that he likes the challenge and craves being taken from his comfort zone. He also said it wasn’t the first time he switched from one side of the ball to the other.
In 1995, when Mangini was an assistant with the Browns, he first worked with the offensive line and the quarterbacks. But the head coach at the time, Bill Belichick, had Mangini and the other young coaches switch to the other side of the ball to gain perspective.
“That was something Bill Belichick always did with his younger coaches,” Mangini said. “ … So when you’re attacking the other side, you’re not saying, ‘Well, I think they’re doing this.’ You’re saying, ‘This is exactly what they’re doing. This is why they’re doing it. Here’s the weakness. So let’s attack here.’ ”
Mangini adopted the approach when he became a head coach, going so far as to have “swap days” in New York and Cleveland during spring OTA sessions. On those days, the offensive and defensive players switched sides, with the defensive backs, for example, studying the same film and receiving tutorials on the same techniques the wide receivers worked on every day.
At age 43, Mangini is the 49ers’ youngest position coach, and he is entering the final year of his two-year contract. He’s been open about wanting to be a head coach again.
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