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For Immediate Release

January 27, 2015

REDSKINS ADD TWO TO COACHING STAFF

LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. – The Washington Redskins announced today that they have named Perry Fewell as Defensive Backs Coach and Mike Clark as Head Strength and Conditioning Coach.

Fewell is entering his 18th NFL season after having spent the last five seasons as defensive coordinator of the New York Giants, a stint that included a victory in Super Bowl XLVI. In Fewell’s five seasons in New York, his unit amassed 160 takeaways, second-most in the NFC and third-most in the NFL.

Fewell entered the NFL in 1998 as a defensive backs coach with the Jacksonville Jaguars, a position in which he served for five seasons. He went on to coach defensive backs in St. Louis (2003-04) and Chicago (2005) before earning his first defensive coordinator job in 2006 with the Buffalo Bills. In 2009, he served as the Bills’ interim head coach for seven games.

Prior to joining the professional ranks, Fewell spent 13 years coaching collegiately. During his college coaching career, he held various positions at North Carolina, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Kent State and Vanderbilt.

Fewell lettered as a defensive back at Lenoir-Rhyne (N.C.) from 1980-83 and was part of the university’s Hall of Fame class in 2011. A native of Gastonia, N.C., he was on the football and track teams at South Point H.S. in Belmont, N.C., and was inducted into the Belmont Sports Hall of Fame in 2001.

Fewell and his wife, Kathleen, have two sons.

Clark is entering his 12th NFL season after having most recently served as Strength and Conditioning Coordinator for the Chicago Bears from 2013-14. His previous NFL experience includes stints with the Kansas City Chiefs and the Seattle Seahawks. He was named the NFL Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year by American Football Monthly in 2005 and helped the Seahawks advance to Super Bowl XL.

Clark spent 23 seasons in strength and conditioning at the collegiate level, including 14 seasons at Texas A&M from 1990-2003. He added the duties of assistant athletic director in 2000. During his time with the Aggies, he was named the Strength Coach of the Year in 1993 and 2000 by the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association.

A native of Wichita, Kan., Clark played high school football at Oak Park H.S. in Kansas City, and continued as a center at Ottawa (Kan.) University. He and his wife, Kris, have three children, Matthew, J.J. and Alicia.

FEWELL FOOTBALL TIMELINE

2010-14: Defensive Coordinator, New York Giants

2009: Interim Head Coach, Buffalo Bills (final seven games)

2006-09: Defensive Coordinator, Buffalo Bills

2005: Defensive Backs Coach, Chicago Bears

2003-04: Secondary Coach, St. Louis Rams

1998-2002: Defensive Backs Coach, Jacksonville Jaguars

1995-97: Secondary Coach, Vanderbilt

1992-94: Defensive Line Coach, U.S. Military Academy at West Point

1988-91: Wide Receivers Coach, Kent State

1987: Defensive Backs Coach, U.S. Military Academy at West Point

1985-86: Graduate Assistant, North Carolina

1980-83: Defensive Back, Lenoir-Rhyne

CLARK FOOTBALL TIMELINE

2013-14: Strength and Conditioning Coordinator, Chicago Bears

2010-12: Strength and Conditioning Coach, Kansas City Chiefs

2004-09: Strength and Conditioning Coach, Seattle Seahawks

1990-2003: Strength and Conditioning Coach, Texas A&M

1988-89: Strength and Conditioning Coach, Southern California

1983-87: Strength and Conditioning Coach, Oregon

1982: Strength and Conditioning Coach, Kansas

1981: Strength and Conditioning Coach, Wyoming

1979-80: Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers Coach, Topeka (Kan.) H.S.

1977-78: Graduate Assistant, Kansas

-REDSKINS-

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For those wondering about Fewell, here's his DC/HC defensive record:

 

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Varied yards rankings, average points rankings, and solid takeaway rankings, for the most part.

 

I don't know much about Clark other than some tweets and what TK just posted, but my initial reaction is that it's not bad.

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So with good players he's a good coach. With bad players he sucks ass. Sounds like every other nfl coach to me

 

Pretty much.  He seems like a fairly average coach.  His takeaways are interesting though.  We'll have to see if/how that changes Amerson's game.  He's getting to that 3rd year, when he should be decent and comfortable in that outside CB spot, and his forte coming out of college was supposed to be ballhawking.

 

We'll see, I suppose.

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So what's the word on Mike Clark?

I know there aren't really great options to look at injury stats and compare them anywhere, but were the Bears relatively healthy last year? How about the Chiefs under him?

I know Matt Forte was always injury prone, but went through the entire season last year relatively healthy.

I was impressed Gruden fired Wright immediately following the season because it was an issue and very few people, if any, even thought about it. It's been on the back of my mind the whole time ever since and I couldn't wait to hear word on who we're looking at to bring in.

I feel like the importance placed on that spot is too minimized.

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So with good players he's a good coach. With bad players he sucks ass. Sounds like every other nfl coach to me

Basically Scot is the X factor for this team, if he can start turning over this roster into a contender right away, these coaches should be able to succeed. Here's to eternal hope.

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At first, I'm not that excited about Fewell, because I can hardly see Giants DB as a real football unit :P They never seemed that good. If not for their DL and LBs buddies, they really looks like toasts.

Then, I was wondering how can he really feel motivated after being fired, unfairly to me, and now being demoted to DB Coach. But he didn't look that bad when on the same position back in Jacksonville (with a not so great roster to deal with). So, maybe not a bad choice after all. Just didn't got me excited at first.

 

Not gonna judge Mike Clark as I really don't know him, but it's nice to have someone at S&C, as I was really wondering how would this side of coaching sort out. As it was due diligence to have Ray Wright fired after all the injured players on IR by the end of last year.

 

So, after getting rid of:

Foerster

Morris

Haslett

Burnley

Wright

we're pretty close to what I stated nearly a month ago: http://es.redskins.com/topic/386135-black-monday-thread-potential-changesfiringsetc/?p=10087169

 

I got all of them fired, but didn't expected Baker fired. Kind of a shame, but it was still weird to have 2 LB coachs on the team. And as much as I'm pretty sad to let him go, we might have well kept the best of the two around us. Could have been interesting to have Baker as DL coach, but maybe that didn't interested him. Don't know, just guessing here.

 

Now find a QB Coach a good DL Coach, and let Scott get us players and it'll be time ro Rock N' Roll again!

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I think its wise to bring in a guy who has many years of DC experience as your DB coach, when you have very little.  Too many young guys just way undervalue experience, and those who have it.

I agree, it's always wise to have a bunch of different experience levels on the coaching staff.  Too much experience, and guys stop being inovative, too little, they don't know which way is north.  Blended together, can be very dangerous. 

 

I don't think its a coincidence that we hired Callahan (former OC) and Fewell (former DC) for support of McVay and Berry. I think that makes sense. Younger energetic coach combined with experience.

There is no such thing as coincidences. 

 

To be fair, a mannequin and a cabbage patch doll would be upgrades over last years defensive staff so 'upgrading' over that shambles isn't saying much. 

 

Hail. 

It's true.  However, I think that it IS important to note that while the defensive staff was lacking, the talent was also lacking as well.  Especially after Hall went down. Breeland turned out to be a rather nice surprise.  Amerson regressed, and by all accounts that wasn't all on coaching, some of that was on him.  

 

The players they brought in to play safety were a complete joke.  

 

So, even with a better staff, SM had better get some better players, or even the better coaches won't fare much better.  

 

I was impressed Gruden fired Wright immediately following the season because it was an issue and very few people, if any, even thought about it. It's been on the back of my mind the whole time ever since and I couldn't wait to hear word on who we're looking at to bring in.

 

I noticed that as well, clearly Jay wasn't happy about something. FWIW (probably not much) Cooley liked Wright.  But as a team we ALWAYS seem to have a lot of pulled muscles, and for whatever reason, the team seems to wear down. 

 

I keep going back to something Jon Gruden said when he took over the Raiders.  He walked in, and apparently after 1 practice said, "well, you guys are just out of shape."  

 

I wonder if Jay noticed the same thing, but he just didn't have the authority or guts to make it happen. 

 

 

This team is starting to look professional.

There are 3 positions on the coaching staff that are either inexperienced at their current job who have not had any success at their job: Gruden (1 year HC, which went poorly), Barry (2 years DC - and for a BAD team), McVay (1 year OC, which wasn't very good.)

 

Other than that, they got rid of a few guys that weren't performing well and replaced them with some other guys who have experience.

 

I'm going to hold judgement on the staff until I see progress.  And I am not going to judge progress on wins/losses this year.  I'm going to look to see how our players improve from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.  If we see improvement, then I think they're doing a good job.  If not, they're not.  

 

Still need to get the DL and QB coaches, which are very important, in my opinion.  

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