Redskins Fill OL Coach Position; Hire Chris Foerster from the 49ers
by KevinE on Jan 21, 2010 12:12 PM EST
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Quick Bio from 49ers website:
Foerster's 2008 line helped pave the way for RB Frank Gore's third consecutive 1,000-yard rushing season, while also blocking for an offensive unit that ranked fifth in the NFL in plays of 20-or-more yards (64). In the final eight games of the season, the offensive line limited opponents to two sacks per game after allowing four sacks per contest during the first half of the year.
and from Wiki:
Foerster was hired by the San Francisco 49ers on February 15, 2008 as the co-offensive line coach. He assumed the title of offensive line coach in week 8 of the 2008 season.
Prior to joining the 49ers, Foerster spent three years (2005-07) as the offensive line coach and assistant head coach for the Baltimore Ravens. Foerster has also served as the offensive coordinator for the Miami Dolphins (2004), tight ends coach for the Indianapolis Colts (2002-03), offensive line coach for the Tampa Buccaneers (1996-2001) and assistant offensive line/tight ends coach for the Minnesota Vikings (1993-95).
With a total of 26 years coaching experience, Foerster also made an impact in the collegiate ranks, serving as the offensive line coach for the University of Minnesota (1992), assistant offensive line/special teams coach for Stanford (1988-91) and offensive line coach for Colorado State (1983-87). He began his coaching career in 1982 as a graduate assistant at Colorado State after a successful career with the Rams as a center from 1979-82. Foerster originally joined the Rams football team as a walk-on before earning a scholarship as a sophomore.
Chris looks to bring a solid background. Obviously, it's impossible to replace someone of Joe Bugel's character, but the Skins have brought in a guy with proven success.
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He comes in with good experience
couple that with the fantastic line that cerrato left him and we should be sound as a pound.
by monk81 on Jan 21, 2010 12:15 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
looks like a good choice
turn our OL guys into blocking monsters coach Foerster!
by aFan4Life on Jan 21, 2010 12:20 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I likee
Shanny must be telling a whale of a story about what he expects out of this team and organization to prospective coaches, because they are flocking to us with, for the most part, outstanding pedigrees. Wahooo!
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
by Scott E on Jan 21, 2010 12:21 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
That is interesting
Shanahan that respected or the money that good
by dr WNC on Jan 21, 2010 1:51 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Never heard
“Show me the Shanny” before, so I suspect the latter.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
by Scott E on Jan 21, 2010 1:52 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
He could of got 10 million in Buffalo.
by travisjh86 on Jan 21, 2010 2:03 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
That's a lot of Shanny!
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
by Scott E on Jan 21, 2010 4:59 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah but is he went to Buffalo, he would have to coach the Bills.
Who wants that?
Orakpo!!! Russel Okung next year!
by Horcasitas4 on Jan 22, 2010 1:11 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Officially announced Baby Shan yesterday
along with Quarterbacks and Tight Ends Coach
Newest Redskins Coaching Additions
SpottieOttieDopaliscious
by Rekka on Jan 21, 2010 12:24 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
great picture of the TE coach and that article
by pas493 on Jan 21, 2010 12:32 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, it was probably too much trouble for them to find a picture that showed his face…
by travisjh86 on Jan 21, 2010 1:12 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
It’s not like Google doesn’t have any face pictures of him…
by travisjh86 on Jan 21, 2010 1:13 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Looks like we are going young with the coaching staff, too
Like in a big way.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
by Scott E on Jan 21, 2010 12:50 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
A good mix...or are you in the Shanahan is young
by dr WNC on Jan 21, 2010 1:52 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
It's seems this latest batch is pretty young
esp. QBs coach. I haven’t done an empirical survey, though, to support that statement for the entire staff now that I actually think about it.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
by Scott E on Jan 21, 2010 1:54 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Kyle Shanahan is probably the most interesting coach on the staff
since I have a sneaking suspicion that he is being groomed to take over the HC after the elder Shanny has proven that he’s still a winner.
by CarverM on Jan 21, 2010 2:23 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Appears to be a good mixed group which..
would be what I would like, my one knock on Gibbs when he returned is he seemed to surround himself with an older staff. A mix of young and old has a better opportunity to gel and be inovative.
It seems the coaching staff is a mix of talent from 1949 through 1979…like the mix..
by dr WNC on Jan 21, 2010 2:24 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Looks like a good hire.
Does this do away with the Zone Blocking Scheme?
by johnnydee83 on Jan 21, 2010 12:39 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Please no
I’m greatly anticipating the day Chad “PIZZA PIZZA” Reinhardt ends DeMarcus Ware’s career with a vicious chop block.
by CJHutch on Jan 21, 2010 1:19 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
"Maybe the Noid
should have avoided him."
by CarverM on Jan 21, 2010 1:40 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
you like that nickname?
I figured “Rhino the Wino” was too easy.
by CJHutch on Jan 21, 2010 1:45 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
But you know he was drinking Schlitz.
by CarverM on Jan 21, 2010 4:24 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
So you are saying...
Rhino the bitch…?
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
by Scott E on Jan 21, 2010 5:01 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
The new regime
has, for the most part, made good, sensible moves this offseason. Its a refreshing breath of fresh air after the dutch oven that was Vinny Cerrato.
by CarverM on Jan 21, 2010 1:12 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I like it.
Obviously he’s not Bugel, so he needs to earn his keep but I trust that he will.
I like his credentials though, hopefully he goes to Shanny and says “Dude, you gotta help me out here. Give me the first pick. Okung.”
by travisjh86 on Jan 21, 2010 1:15 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I'd love to be able to read Shanny's plan right about now.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
by Scott E on Jan 21, 2010 1:56 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
49ers fans
I posted a link to this over at Niners Nation. I don’t know how much the 2009 woes are to blame on talent versus the coach, but fans are relatively pleased.
by Fooch on Jan 21, 2010 2:12 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laydODN6xVk
by hibachi on Jan 21, 2010 2:24 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
why do I get the feeling
like we just got fleeced
SpottieOttieDopaliscious
by Rekka on Jan 21, 2010 2:37 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Reading some of the comments
They might have just been calling for his head as a way of justifying them not making the playoffs. Looks like the 49ers had injuries along the offensive line (sound familiar?) and then struggled with the replacement. I remember some people on here saying that Joe Bugel was washed up, etc. and we all know that he was a great coach. Looks like some of them are even suggesting that they want the old Seahawks OL coach as the replacement, and its fairly obvious that the Seahawks Oline was “less than stellar” last year. So all in all, I wouldn’t read too much into the 49er reaction. Not many people here cried when Jerry Gray left either, and he was fairly well liked.
by CarverM on Jan 21, 2010 2:49 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
hard to tell for me
I don’t think I even saw 1 49ers game this year (which is fine by me). Gore did well and the OL gave up 40 sacks so they did slightly better than our OL in pass protection. But I have to wonder, how much of the success in the running game was Gore? I have a hard time believing he’d average 4.9 yards per carry with an awful line.
Unlike Campbell, this is the only year Smith has even looked at least mediocre (statistically). This is the first year he’s had more TDs than interceptions. So is he holding the ball too long and getting sacked for it? It doesn’t look to me like they have a very good WR corps considering Crabtree didn’t play the entire season.
by aFan4Life on Jan 21, 2010 3:06 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Saw alot of Niners games
They really struggled when their stud LT went out for awhile. The rest of the O-line was mostly re-treads and mediocre guys.
by BayAreaBullet on Jan 21, 2010 4:12 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
that's so funny it's sad
SpottieOttieDopaliscious
by Rekka on Jan 21, 2010 4:20 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
yeah except their LT was young
not an older guy who had been banged up the previous few seasons.
by BayAreaBullet on Jan 21, 2010 4:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
49ers OL
They ended the year with the starting LT being a UFA who came up through some lower leagues into the NFL. Not a good sign usually (although Joe Jacoby was a UFA also). It doesn’t look like they ignored their OL like we have though:
Pos Name Year Round Overall
LG Baas 2005 2 33
C Heitmann 2002 7 239
RG Rachal 2008 2 39
RT Snyder 2005 3 94
It looks like (after looking at their games played and games started) Heitmann is the only 1 with a lot of experience in actually starting games though. In fact CBS sports had Snyder listed in the depth chart as the starting RT but he played LG in other years. Not a good sign. The guy they had at LT at the beginning of the year was playing RT last year and then he got hurt. Lots of shuffling of players can be a real problem.
It looks like they had a real mess on their hands. So was that the OL coach or did he not have anything to work with. Given that you said they had re-treads and mediocre guys I’m hoping it had nothing to do with the position coach.
by aFan4Life on Jan 22, 2010 9:21 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
well they started out with Barry Sims as the RT
Staley is a good LT but was hurt. Sims not surprising got hurt so they signed Tony Pashos(who I advocated us signing when he got cut early) who played a couple of games and got hurt. Rachal was raw and Snyder is more of a guard. If Staley had played all 16 games they would have been ok but not great. They had some decent young prospects(Staley is already good and rachal is a blue chipper). I don’t think there was all that much to work with though having a guy like V. Davis who is a beat of a blocker from the TE spot helps. They didn’t ignore the line to the extent we have(drafting Staley at the end of the 1st round and developing him is what we have been advocating for 2 years) but it had alot of hole and was trying to patch it with sub par guys(especially RT).
by BayAreaBullet on Jan 22, 2010 2:40 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
they ran the spread offense for part of the year
Shawn Hill started they year for them and played like Shawn Hill. Then they went to Alex Smith and resorted to running a college spread offense b/c that is the only thing he knows how to run. He put up good numbers in the spread, but they did not win many games. They returned to a traditional offense and ended the year going 5-3 with Gore putting up 4 100yd games in those games. Gore had a 4.9 yard per carry year too. I’m not worried about Foerster, it seems like a good signing.
by liger99 on Jan 21, 2010 5:06 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Yea...
It’s not like the 49ers OLine gave up that last second TD to Favre and the Vikings.
haha. Sorry Fooch!
"It was one of those things where everyone in the building was suddenly excited again," Cerrato said. "And all the women in the building were the most excited. They couldn't believe we were getting the guy from "Dancing With the Stars."
by KevinE on Jan 21, 2010 3:03 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
that Brandon Lloyd dig one of the commenters posted hurt.
SpottieOttieDopaliscious
by Rekka on Jan 21, 2010 3:11 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah.
I think that hurt worse than when the Broncos guys brought up us giving them Bailey AND a draft pick for Morris.
by CarverM on Jan 21, 2010 3:41 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
who the hell is Morris?
SpottieOttieDopaliscious
by Rekka on Jan 21, 2010 3:55 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Good question
someone was talking to me while I was typing I think. I meant Portis
by CarverM on Jan 21, 2010 4:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
yeah but people forget
Bailey rejected the highest contract offered to a defensive player at the time so the Skins had to have a fire sale. When team know you have to trade someone you always get hosed.
by BayAreaBullet on Jan 21, 2010 4:23 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Cleveland felt the same about Belichick
When he left;
Some Coaches, Like some players need the right environment to succeed which does not make them unique but adequate will get the job done.
by dr WNC on Jan 21, 2010 3:26 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Belichick's record is 41-56 with 1 playoff defeat
without Tom Brady. With Brady, Belichick is 111-38 with 3 rings.
I’m just sayin.
by johnnydee83 on Jan 21, 2010 3:53 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Exactly
A very good coach in the Right situation, that situation happens to be Tom Brady.
I’ve never considered Belichick a great coach, he has performed well in a new environment, NE vs Cleveland.
by dr WNC on Jan 21, 2010 4:17 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
It's only a suspicion,
but I suspect they had an O-line during that 111-38 run.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
by Scott E on Jan 21, 2010 5:11 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I was wondering what those 5 fat dudes were standing in front of Brady for
SpottieOttieDopaliscious
by Rekka on Jan 21, 2010 5:15 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
now that's not padding!
or is it, they are fat after all. But I like that comment as part of the laughs of the day “I was wondering what those 5 fat dudes were standing in front of Brady for”
by aFan4Life on Jan 22, 2010 9:24 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
but remember that Campbell is better than Brady
Just ask LJP for the proof. So how can these 2 both be true?
by aFan4Life on Jan 22, 2010 9:23 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
They're true
if LJP says they are! LOL fist pump head butt chest pound reach-around
by CarverM on Jan 22, 2010 3:25 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Damn
if I were into rap, that would be a good one.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
by Scott E on Jan 22, 2010 7:00 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
It had more of a "hokey pokey"
sound to it in my head.
by CarverM on Jan 23, 2010 11:54 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Adam Snyder
While he started 16 games, he also allowed a lot of sacks. He might have been moved to guard from RT during the latter part of the season. Adam Snyder 7 Sacks Allowed and Median Time 2.6
http://www.ninersnation.com/2009/11/13/1156459/sacks-allowed-by-each-lineman
“In the final eight games of the season, the offensive line limited opponents to two sacks per game after allowing four sacks per contest during the first half of the year.”
by Jefferson1935 on Jan 21, 2010 8:36 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Things look alot better for them when Staley is on the field
They had a RT carousel that was as bad as ours and they lost Staley for awhile. When he came back to man the LT spot they really improved.
by BayAreaBullet on Jan 21, 2010 10:37 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
What?
Are you implying you can’t just hire anyone to play on the OL? But that’s worked so well for us….right?
by aFan4Life on Jan 22, 2010 9:25 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
It won us some games
4 of them, to be exact. Hey, that’s better than 3! Now that would have been embarassing!
by CarverM on Jan 22, 2010 3:27 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Definitely
something to talk about.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
by Scott E on Jan 22, 2010 7:01 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
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