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Pumchavas28
01-02-2008, 11:38 AM
What are ya'lls thoughts on him possibly being the new OC???

http://www.seahawks.com/Team/Coaches.aspx?id=8346 (http://www.seahawks.com/Team/Coaches.aspx?id=8346)

http://www.seahawks.com/uploadedImages/Seahawks_Content/Team/Coaches/Cromwell_Nolan2006.jpg


Named to his current position on January 14, 1999, Nolan Cromwell enters his 28th NFL season; the first 11 as a Pro Bowl-caliber safety and the last 16 as an assistant coach.

Cromwell enters 2007 without Darrell Jackson for the first time since 1999. Under Cromwell’s guidance, Jackson finished his career ranking fourth in Seattle history in catches (441), third in yards (6,445) and second in receiving touchdowns (47).

This season, Cromwell’s receiving corps is led by Super Bowl XXXIX MVP Deion Branch, who tied (D.J. Hackett) for second on the team with four touchdowns, Hackett and 12-year veteran Bobby Engram. Also in the mix is Nate Burleson, who caught 68 balls for more than 1,000 yards while with Minnesota in 2004.

In 2005, Engram led the team in catches (67) and yards (778) for his best season since 1999.

Cromwell’s 2002 receivers helped set franchise records for most 300-yard (5) and 400-yard (2) passing games and in 2003 helped QB Matt Hasselbeck set a franchise record with 3,841 passing yards.

In 1999, he helped Derrick Mayes have a career year, leading the team in receptions (62) and touchdowns (10).

In 1998, Cromwell coached the Green Bay Packers' wide receivers under Mike Holmgren, after serving as special teams coach from 1992-97.

Cromwell's squad included Pro Bowl standout Antonio Freeman who established career-highs leading the NFL with 1,424 yards on 84 receptions. Overall, the Packers passing game accounted for 33 touchdowns that year, while helping guide the team to a sixth-consecutive postseason appearance.

Before taking over the wide receivers, Cromwell coached Green Bay's aggressive special teams units. One of the league's most feared punt return teams, the Packers paced the NFL in 1996 with a 15.1-yard return average. That year, his group of field position warriors also led the league by scoring 24 points, and adding another two touchdowns in the postseason en route to a Super Bowl XXXI victory. On five different weekends during the 1996 season, one of Cromwell's players was honored as Special Teams Player of the Week.

Prior to taking on duties with the Packers, Cromwell coached on John Robinson's Los Angeles Rams staff as a defensive and special teams assistant in 1991.

A second-round draft choice by the Rams in 1977, Cromwell played his entire 11-year career for Los Angeles, earning four Pro Bowl berths, an NFC Defensive Player of the Year award (Kansas City Committee of 101) in 1980, and an NFL Defensive Back of the Year award (Football Digest) in 1984.

He ended his Rams career as the team's all-time leader in interception return yardage with 671 yards on 37 picks. He was also a member of the Rams' Super Bowl XIV team following the 1979 season.

An All-America wishbone quarterback at Kansas, Cromwell established an NCAA single-game rushing record for quarterbacks with 294 yards as a junior, after playing safety his first two collegiate seasons. He also was an accomplished decathlete in track.

Born on January 30, 1955, in Kansas, Nolan and his wife, Mary, have two children, Lance and Jennifer.


Career History:

1991-92 - Los Angeles Rams: Defense/Special Teams Assistant
1992-97 - Green Bay Packers: Special Teams
1998 - Green Bay Packers: Wide Receivers
1999- - Seattle Seahawks : Wide Receivers

Pumchavas28
01-02-2008, 11:41 AM
The reason I ask is because the San Antonio Express News (not always 100% accurate but right about Frangate) is reporting that he is close to becoming the new OC for A&M....

http://www.mysanantonio.com/mysaStories/20080102.sports.aggiesmail.html (http://www.mysanantonio.com/mysaStories/20080102.sports.aggiesmail.html)

COLLEGE STATION – Nolan Cromwell and Dave Elmendorf are closing in on a reunion – in Elmendorf’s old stomping grounds.


Cromwell, the Seattle Seahawks’ receivers coach, is considered the leading candidate to become Texas A&M’s offensive coordinator under new coach Mike Sherman.

PinetarAg
01-02-2008, 11:42 AM
What happened to Barone

Pumchavas28
01-02-2008, 11:44 AM
Don't know..... This kinda threw me for a loop today also..... It's definetly an interesting twist...

jagowar
01-02-2008, 11:50 AM
I dont think this hire matters as much as the d side does because most people think sherman will run his own offense anyways.

whitelightnin_23
01-02-2008, 11:51 AM
we definitely could use an NFL caliber WR guy...but an unproven O Coord...we'll have to wait & see...:popcorn:

Pumchavas28
01-02-2008, 11:53 AM
I agree.... but if he is running the Offense (supposedly)... I would think he might wind up helping our WR's....

I am would hope he can help bring in more 6'4 WR's in the future along with helping A&M produce a passing game that's been missing for..... well for God knows how long...

Not to mention Sherman will be working closely with the O'Line also....

Seems we need a TE, QB & RB coach still....

whitelightnin_23
01-02-2008, 11:55 AM
...WE NEED A QB COACH!!!

it made all the difference @ ut...see Peyton Manning & T Martin...they won a nc with T MARTIN!!!

Pumchavas28
01-02-2008, 11:58 AM
I think every QB on every team needs a QB coach.... JMO.... but it couldn't hurt.....

Besides... It's funny Peyton didn't win a Chip until he had a QB coach at Indy...

http://cache.colts.com/sub.cfm?page=coachbio&coach_id=19

Also it could help our present & future QB's become NFL ready....

whitelightnin_23
01-02-2008, 12:02 PM
actually David Cutcliffe was Peyton, T, Heath Shuler & Eli's QB Coach...

whitelightnin_23
01-02-2008, 12:04 PM
Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning and his brother, New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning, credit Cutcliffe for helping them develop in college. At Tennessee, Cutcliffe also coached future NFL quarterbacks Tee Martin and Heath Shuler.
Archie Manning, the former NFL quarterback and father of Peyton and Eli, said Wednesday in an interview that he did not know if Cutcliffe had the job at Duke.
But he said Cutcliffe would be a good fit. "He's just a quarterback coach," Manning said, giving Cutcliffe most of the credit for developing his sons. "He did all the little things, the mechanics, the cerebral part of the game, the whole maturation process. I feel [he] did more than anyone else. ..."



http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/story/829856.html

Vlyrock
01-02-2008, 01:04 PM
...WE NEED A QB COACH!!!

it made all the difference @ ut...see Peyton Manning & T Martin...they won a nc with T MARTIN!!!
They won 1 NC, but also went on a 10 year drought of not winning the SEC....

Pumchavas28
01-02-2008, 02:22 PM
Either way White.... they had a QB Coach.... that's why they credit him.... either way... We need one...

polish
01-02-2008, 02:24 PM
I think Sherman is going to call his own plays and is surrounding himself with teachers

Pumchavas28
01-02-2008, 02:38 PM
Every coach is a teacher... otherwise how else would they make it this far...

I just want Sherman to bring in folks who work well together & who can out coach the rest of the Big XII coaches... ttu has either caught up to A&M or is about to pass us & that is unfortunatly a horrible truth... neither RC or Fran were able to stop it or prevent it...

All I want is for Sherman to do for A&M what Stoops did for OU & Mack for tu....

Getting to the Chip is up to the Voters (who wind up finding way s to screw it up)... so I'd rather 1st & foremost rather have a coach that can have us not even with ttu or about to slip beneath them & have us pull even with tu & OU & if possible surpass them....

Obviously winning the Big XII is not easy... Even Stoops & Mack don't win it every year, but at least they are there every year...

I want Sherman to get us to the Big XII Chip 4 out 5 years.... After A&M wins it, it's up to the Voters on if we get screwed or not....