On Friday, the Miami Dolphins finalized their coaching staff under new head coach Mike McDaniel that features some experienced veterans and some younger coaches getting one of their first opportunities.
Most of these hirings were known from reports over the last couple of weeks, but there are some surprises, including the fact that former offensive line coach Lemuel Jeanpierre is being kept on the staff as assistant offensive line coach under Matt Applebaum.
One of the knocks against former head coach Brian Flores was that he wasn’t able to put a solid staff around him, so McDaniel will do his best to build a unit that can collaborate together and win football games.
Here’s a look at the full staff:
- Head Coach: Mike McDaniel
- Assistant head coach/tight ends coach: Jon Embree
- Offensive Coordinator: Frank Smith
- Associate head coach/running backs coach: Eric Studesville
- Passing game coordinator/quarterbacks coach: Darrell Bevell
- Assistant quarterbacks coach: Chandler Henley
- Wide receivers coach: Wes Welker
- Offensive line coach: Matt Applebaum
- Assistant offensive line coach: Lemuel Jeanpierre
- Quality Control: Josh Grizzard
- Offensive assistant: Mike Person
- Offensive assistant: Aldrick Robinson
- Offensive assistant: Kobly Smith
- Defensive coordinator: Josh Boyer
- Defensive line coach: Austin Clark
- Assistant defensive line coach: Derrick LeBlanc
- Outside linebackers coach: Ty McKenzie
- Linebackers coach: Anthony Campanile
- Assistant linebackers coach: Steve Ferentz
- Assistant defensive backs coach: Mathieu Araujo
- Cornerbacks coach/pass game specialist: Sam Madison
- Safeties coach: Steve Gregory
- Senior defensive assistant: Ryan Slowik
- Defensive assistant: Patrick Surtain
- Special teams coordinator: Danny Crossman
- Assistant special teams coach: Brendan Farrell
- Head strength and conditioning coach: Dave Puloka