Tennessee Titans and Miami Dolphins make coaching changes – NFL Update
Mike Munchak, head coach for the Tennessee Titans, has hired four more assistant coaches and fired two more. He has hired Dave Ragone, Art Valero, Chet Parlavecchio, and Arthur Smith while firing Marty Galbraith and Tim Hauck.
Ragone has been hired as the wide receivers coach, having been with the Houston Texans from 2003 to 2005 after being drafted as a quarter-back in the 2003 NFL Draft, 88th overall, in the third round. He was in the United Football League as a quarter-back
coach for the Hartford Cardinals last year with the Titans’ new offensive coordinator, Chris Palmer.
"He has a great understanding of offense and how it all fits together, and I believe he will be a good fit for the receivers’ room," Munchak said of Ragone. "He will give them a different perspective and different approach to the game."
Valero has been in the National Football League for the past nine years coaching the offensive line, running backs and tight ends out of 21 years of total coaching experience. He will be the assistant offensive line coach after spending last season with
the Seattle Seahawks in the same position. He was also with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers when they won Super Bowl XXXVII at the end of the 2002 season.
Parlavecchio had been with Munchak at Pennsylvania State University and was then picked 152nd overall in the sixth round of the 1982 NFL Draft by the Green Bay Packers. The line-backer spent half of the 1983 season with the Packers and the other
half with the St. Louis Cardinals, now the St. Louis Rams. The 51-year-old will be assistant special teams coach with the Titans. He has also spent more than 20 years as a high school football coach in New Jersey as well as coaching the line-backers at Temple
University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1992 and 1993.
Before Smith was an administrative assistant at the University of Mississippi, he had been with the Washington Redskins for three years, spending one as a college scouting assistant and the remaining two as a defensive quality control coach. He will be the
new defensive assistant for quality control with the Titans.
In similar news, the Miami Dolphins have made coaching changes of their own. They have hired Bryan Cox, former line-backer for the team, as their pass rush coach. He was drafted by the Dolphins in the 1991 NFL Draft and has been selected to the Pro Bowl
three times, in 1992, 1994 and 1995. Cox also played for the Chicago Bears, New York Jets, New England Patriots and New Orleans Saints.
Before being hired by the Dolphins, Cox had been an analyst for a sports network as well as being assistant defensive line coach for the Jets from 2006 to 2008 and then with the Cleveland Browns as their defensive line coach.
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