Eagles QB coach Pat Shurmur headed to St Louis
by JasonB on Jan 21, 2009 8:20 AM EST
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PrintMultiple sources are reporting this morning that the St. Louis Rams are set to announce Eagles QB coach Pat Shurmur as their new offensive coordinator.
The Eagles probably won't have a new quarterback for the 2009 season, but they will have a new quarterbacks coach. A league source told the Daily News that St. Louis will announce the hiring of Pat Shurmur as its offensive coordinator.
On Sunday the news broke that former long time Eagles defensive assistant Steve Spagnuolo would leave the Giants to become the Rams' head coach. It appears that he'll be raiding at least one of his former teams for his coordinators.
Shurmur has been an assistant with the Eagles since Andy Reid came here a decade ago. He started as Tight Ends coach, but spent the last 7 years coaching the QBs. Shurmur has long been rumored as a possible coordinator elsewhere, something coach Reid has seen coming.
""Pat's a very good football coach and teacher,"" said head coach Andy Reid. ""He's received a lot of attention from other teams to be a coordinator [in the last two years] that's going to happen for him.""
In all likelhood, offensive assistant Mark Whipple will be named the new Eagles QB coach. Whipple coached Ben Roethlisberger in Pittsburgh under Bill Cowher and was brought in here when it appeared Shurmur might leave last year.
Best of luck to Shurmur... and get ready for some passing Rams fans!
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Interesting
and I wonder what it will mean for McNabb as a passer (probably little) and for Kolb’s development (probably a lot).
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Bear Bryant
Question from St. Louis
So are you saying that you’d like Shurmur around to tutor Kolb? We’re going to need to groom a replacement for Bulger and quick.
"Attaway to stomp 'em. Stomp the piss out of 'em. Stomp 'em when they're down. Kick 'em and stomp 'em. Attaway to go boys. Pound that old Budweiser into you and go get them tomorrow." -- Joe Schultz
I think it says something that he was here for 7 years but Andy was the QB coach for Favre. It’s hard to tell exactly how much these guys do but if he had any hand in developing McNabb I’d say your in for a good coach.
"I need to do a better job of putting players in the right position to perennially come up short of expectations"
Wasn’t he also the hatchet man for Reid when they decided to bench McNabb? That takes some cold blood…
"Attaway to stomp 'em. Stomp the piss out of 'em. Stomp 'em when they're down. Kick 'em and stomp 'em. Attaway to go boys. Pound that old Budweiser into you and go get them tomorrow." -- Joe Schultz
Isn’t it usually the job of a position coach to deal with the players under him?
I get the significance of benching the QB…. but the coach delegates to these guys pretty regularly.
That may be the way professional teams do it...
But I wouldn’t know, I’ve had to watch the Rams. Though it looks like Devaney is starting to seriously set things right.
"Attaway to stomp 'em. Stomp the piss out of 'em. Stomp 'em when they're down. Kick 'em and stomp 'em. Attaway to go boys. Pound that old Budweiser into you and go get them tomorrow." -- Joe Schultz
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