NFL: Carolina Panthers hire Rob Chudzinski as offensive coordinator
The Carolina Panthers have hired San Diego Chargers’ tight ends and assistant head coach Rob Chudzinski as their own offensive coordinator.
This comes just a few days after hiring another Charger, Ron Rivera, to join their coaching staff.
The team announced on Tuesday that Chudzinski would run the offence, after he was tight ends and assistant head coach to the number one offence in the League in 2010-11.
By taking this job, Chudzinski takes on the monumental task of turning the Panthers’ offence around after being placed as the 32nd team in the League, the lowest possible rank. They had the worst red zone offence, least passing yards per game,
least total yards per game, and lowest number of points per game. All of this was due to an inefficient offence headed by quarterbacks Matt Moore and Jimmy Clausen.
The Panthers were 2-14 in the 2010 season, winning by a close margin against the San Francisco 49ers in Week 7 and an inexplicable win over the Arizona Cardinals in Week 15. They did not make the playoffs, obviously, the same which cannot be said about the
next team that made a coaching staff change.
On the other side of the league, the Baltimore Ravens have taken Chuck Pagano’s secondary coach label and swapped it with defensive coordinator. He becomes defensive coordinator just a day after ex-defensive coordinator Greg Mattison left the Ravens to take
up the same position at the University of Michigan under their new head coach, Brady Hoke.
Fabian Washington, cornerback for the Ravens, felt that the promotion was “way past overdue” and that Pagano’s promotion should have taken place a long time ago. He has a reputation of running an aggressive defence, which is perfect for the Ravens and their
already superb defence.
Cornerback Josh Wilson says that it is “going to be like nothing ever changed” as far as the team goes because he knows that Pagano is more than capable for his new post.
Pagano had been a defensive coordinator at the University of North Carolina in 2007 and has previous professional football experience, being a secondary coach to the Cleveland Browns and Oakland Raiders.
The Ravens made it to the playoffs in 2011. They defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the Wild Card game on Sunday, 9 January but lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the American Football Conference divisional round of the playoffs.
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