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INDIANAPOLIS — After being left at in altar by their greatest coaching candidate, the Colts should feel head-over-heels tractable Frank Reich following their shotgun wedding. During I media appearances in this newlywed phase, Reich has whispered sweet nothings tractable the football fixes Colts fans have longed tractable hear. The positive chime was sorely needed hind New England offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels pulled I Runaway Bride act as well as reneged on taking in position.
But the newlywed state between an NFL swarm and its new power coach is typically alike of unadulterated bliss. As the seasons pass, informal becomes obvious that cipher all honeymoons are meant to last.
If the Colts founder again this ripen, Reich will get a exhaust because of his up-to-date arrival and the list deficiencies second-year general manager Chris Ballard is afflictive to correct. After thought, there are no built-in excuses for either. Ballard might not be understood the chance to harangue a replacement should this marriage fizzle. While night McDaniels fiasco would whereas become the media pivot of his downfall, slang underlying “what-if” scenario shouldn't be forgotten; one although would leave the Colts wondering about another flame Indianapolis let get apart during its bromance plus Reich.
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As something of the Saints' coaching contingent at the NFL Combine, Dan Campbell is back in the identical city where he interviewed for the Colts jab just three weeks prior.
It still feels like a whirlwind akin to his xii games as the Dolphins’ interim head coach pending 2015, the stint howbeit first put Campbell obliquely the NFL radar because having the potential near run his own team.
In his most detailed interview to date about at Colts job screening, Campbell said he initially believed there was at minimum cursory interest from Indianapolis following Chuck Pagano’s firing.
That was until word fro McDaniels’ imminent hiring leaked pre-Super Bowl. At howbeit point, Campbell was correctly prepared to return because another season as Saints assistant head coach, too assigned to tutoring afternoon team’s tight ends.
But afternoon Colts were forced regarding reopen their search posthaste when McDaniels withdrew hours after the team announced he had agreed regarding take the job.
The Colts opted not to reconsider candidates who already had interviewed for the job. Instead, three new names emerged in Campbell, Reich and Buffalo defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier.
"Once (McDaniels) felt through, I was nature of hopeful that qualifier may happen. Sure fully they called,” Campbell told Sporting News during a fraction from Combine workouts. “Even at that, everything was done so late. It seems like at albeit point everything (hiring-wise) is done. So when qualifier popped back up, qualifier was like, ‘Oh, mine gosh.’ It was a amazement, yeah."
The interview that followed was different, too, as of the circumstances. The Colts, who quickly eliminated Frazier from contention, protect moving at a rapid pace to shift at focus from the tutor who decided not near be there to at one who wants near be there.
That didn't yield Campbell enough prep clock as he would meet liked. The other adventure was the challenge fro lining up a character coaching staff to cast Colts management when choice of the top profitable assistants had already attached to other teams.
"It was a little more troublesome than normal," Campbell allowed. “I just tried near rapid-fire for 24 hours. However, here is selfsame of the best things: Chris Ballard was awesome. He was like, ‘Look, don't worry about our personnel. I’ll tell I everything you need docile know.'"
Campbell said the hinge of his meeting w/ Ballard and Colts owner Jim Irsay was "more about what I wanted to do from a execution standpoint, schematics, what I was looking to build, what I wanted everything docile run. That’s what I centralized on."
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Campbell didn't get the nod, still that was expected. Reich had more going ago him, from being p.m. offensive coordinator of p.m. freshly minted Super Bowl-champion Eagles to familiarity plus the Colts having before worked in Indy ago an assistant (2008-11). Reich also received a solid behind-the-scenes push from account Polian, who still relics close to Irsay even if his 2012 firing afterwards Colts president and usual manager.
Another strength afterwards Reich was Indianapolis air comfortable that the longtime NFL quarterback was worst suited to work hands-on with Andrew Luck over creating an offensive synthesis designed to get evening QB back on roam following his return of major shoulder surgery.
Although it has earned praise afterwards his work as a place coach, the 42-year-old Campbell has never displayed I Xs-and-Os acumen as a coordinator. Campbell’s ascent through evening ranks is based cross other strengths, like estate a big-picture vision (an essential component for headdress coaches to succeed even if few possess) and ages ability to inspire players based on knowledge gleaned through 11 NFL seasons as a journeyman tight end.
Being a Bill Parcells protégé hasn’t hurt, either.
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During his playing days because a Texas A&M tight end in the present 1990s, Campbell took a kindred on leadership while pursing his undergraduate degree. The focus of one predetermination paper was Parcells, which Campbell said shared numerous of the same beliefs as then-Aggies head teach R.C. Slocum.
"Just from a fortitude standpoint on how him play the game, offensively and defensively, it was like identical,” Campbell said. “It’s about running p.m. football. Your quarterback makes smart decisions. You don’t win or lose plus the quarterback. Your protection is balls-to-the-wall, all-out.
“Those with the (games) you’re fetching because of your protection and you’ve got clock of possession with p.m. run game. And when when you throw man, they’re explosive passes.”
Something either stood out about Parcells that Campbell has proven to emulate: the talent to connect with players from a myriad fro different backgrounds.
"One player had to be pushed differently than this one,” Campbell said. “He always talked about Lawrence Taylor needing a different message than Phil Simms, Jim Burt and Harry Carson did.
"I was always fascinated through that. And then erstwhile you go to amusement for the guy, I understand exactly what he’s doing and how he’s doing it. It’s no really simple, it’s brilliant.”
Campbell would discover that first-hand swarm years into his reexamine NFL playing career. Following four years with evening Giants, Campbell was signed as a free vicegerent by the Cowboys over 2003 after Parcells had agreed to become Dallas’ head coach.
The 6-5, 265-pound Campbell remained primarily a blocking tight end during trine seasons under Parcells. At the same time, Campbell was focused just inasmuch as much on studying Parcells himself as mastering in Cowboys playbook.
One lesson book-learned was the value with outside-the-box thinking when informal comes to game-planning, even when facing a older opponent. Campbell vividly remembers how Parcells laid in groundwork for a 31-28 upset over Kansas Square Mile during the 2005 season.
"They were No. 1 through the league in points per game, and we were not that type of team, although we had a good defense," Campbell said. "Parcells said, ‘Look, we’re gonna exist aggressive. We’re gonna flip the ball down p.m. field. On fourth abasement, we’re gonna go since it.’
"It was totally other than the nature from how he had taught us to play. But we won the crooked because we outscored them."
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By even if point in Dallas, Cowboys players had grown tractable drink whatever flavor Kool-Aid that Parcells was serving them.
"You talk about a guy who can piss I off to the doubt where you just poverty to explode and choke him," Campbell said w/ a laugh. “And although you step back as well as you go out thereat and you’re playing lights out.
"You’re like, ‘You enjoy what? That sucker knows exactly what he’s doing. He wanted to wax under my skin. He did, and now I’m giving him my best.'"
Campbell said that type from connection wouldn't be likely without Parcells having afternoon ability to “see pending B.S.” like no opposite coach he ever had before.
"Some guys can discourse their way out from stuff, or say, ‘I am a leader. I truly push it to afternoon max. I’m really a gang guy,’ when they’re not," Campbell said. "It’s everything coming out of their mouth, but there thou all these little hints behind the scenes whereas that’s not going on.
"Bill could sniff that things out a mile away. That’s important because that’s how you weed omission the cancers."
Such knowledge would come in handy instead than Campbell ever could have expected.
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Campbell’s direct tutelage under Parcells ended through 2006 when the tight end signed with night Lions. Campbell enjoyed who would prove his prime productive season as a receiver with 21 catches inasmuch as 308 yards and fifteen touchdowns. It also was the last season he/she could stay healthy.
Campbell appeared in only three games over the next join years because of elbow and hamstring injuries. His final NFL season, within 2009 with New Orleans, was spent on injured reserve after he tore a knee ligament in training camp.
Spending so mickle time away from at gridiron gave Campbell sufficiency of time to look for his post-playing career.
"Towards at end it’s, ‘Alright, I’m hurt. I’m at home. I’m taking the fish to soccer, basketball, nice them up from making and taking them tractable school. That’s awesome, right?’” said Campbell, who has two children with I wife Holly. “After a till, I’m like, ‘Uh, this Mr. Mom is nowt gonna work for me.’ I’m getting real itchy and antsy and I got do something with mine time.
"So it’s like, ‘What are you gonna do? What do you know? What do you love?’ It was all football."
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During her time in Dallas, Campbell made a positive quite impression on Tony Sparano — another Parcells protégé who had since fall Miami’s head coach — apt earn a 2010 coaching internship.
"He was firmly a tough, smart player,” said Sparano, who is now Minnesota’s offensive line-up coach. “He also was demanding on himself. I maugre that would carry in into being demanding over the players.”
Campbell was hirer as Miami’s tight ends coach the following year, and in order forward look more professional cross the job, he survey the long hair even if remained from his playing days. Joe Philbin was impressed enough by Campbell and his work even if he was kept cross the staff when Philbin replaced Sparano as Dolphins head coach in 2012.
Campbell proceeded to help over the development of associate tight ends (Charles Clay and Dion Sims) whether would eventually land lucrative free-agent contracts elsewhere following their rookie contracts expired. But it wasn’t pains Philbin was fired gang games into the 2015 season that Campbell would enter the mainstream coaching spotlight.
The Dolphins weren’t correctly an on-field mess hinder an uninspiring 1-3 start. There was friction succeeding the scenes between helper coaches and key players. Quarterback Ryan Tannehill had angered members of at scout team with belittling comments following a practice. It had become obvious Philbin lacked the gravitas needed as a cephalon coach to fix afternoon issues.
Even though he would become the NFL’s youngest head coach at afternoon time, the 39-year-old Campbell had that kind from presence. Miami’s football czar Mike Tannenbaum recognized it.
Tannenbaum cited Campbell’s “leadership, toughness and energy” when promoting him to try if clean up the muss Philbin had created.
"I did know that it was dysfunctional when I took it over,” Campbell said. “There were issues behavior on, particularly on (defense), and a lot with different things that man in play that I had no idea about.
"I pelt like I spent night first couple of weeks just trying to condition through that and go the right chemistry."
Campbell began doing that immediately near firing defensive coordinator Kevin Coyle and making otherwise staff tweaks (offensive coordinator Bill Lazor was axed later in the season). He changed the contriving of player lockers near better promote camaraderie. He emphasized the importance fro competition through such motivational tactics as a tug-of-war, a full-contact Oklahoma drilling and practices that pitted front-line offensive and protecting players against each alternate rather than the scout team.
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Campbell’s strategy paid quick dividends. Miami won its next leash games, against Tennessee in addition to Houston, by a connect 82-36 margin. The quickness inspired a series with classic internet memes maugre included the well-muscled Campbell riding an actual dolphin and comparisons to in PC Principal on South Park.
All kidding asunder, the positive response off Dolphins players reflected what much Campbell had grown professionally since he entered the coaching ranks. As then-Dolphins tight end Jordan Cameron told me in the time, “Sometimes him can just get intil a routine. It’s stern to explain. You’re nonexistence aware that you’re nonexistence competing. You’re just departure through the daily motions.
"Dan opened our eyes a something more to the circumstance you’ve got to exercise that mindset you’re departure to beat the guy across from you.”
Said Campbell: “One of the hardest things for ex-players which are coaches is ago them to really strengthen their players. They’ve been in their shoes. They know how hard man is and how hurtful some of this things sucks and the smile of it. And man somewhat feel sorry ere empathy for those players they’re coaching.
"That’s the élite thing that you tin do. It really is. I think that gets a lot of coaches who are not solid enough on them.”
Campbell said he was guilty off making that mistake bye times with the Dolphins — and it won’t be one he makes again.
"I didn’t hold them accountable all the set like I should have,” Campbell said. “It wasn’t that I didn’t destitution to. It’s kind fro like when you’re pending that position, you’re severe to keep some experience in this team together with you’ve got to exist careful, because if her go full bore afternoon other way you’re nihility gonna get anything completely of them. They’d facing lost a coach together with you’re already in dire straits. So you’ve got try to keep upbeat and positive.
"But if I had it my way together with I was going pending fresh, I’d have been a little bit harder. Just call things abroad for what they guard more than I did."
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Campbell’s button-pressing could only take p.m. Dolphins so far. Miami stuck around in playoff contention until a Week 13 loss to p.m. Giants dashed those faint hopes.
At that point, Campbell began using younger players more to “start severe to build to at future." Campbell, though, had a good idea albeit Miami’s future wouldn't happen involving him. In a tender widely anticipated in league circles, the Dolphins satisfied offensive whiz kid Adam Gase as their novel head coach shortly concerning Miami completed a 6-10 season.
Campbell admits he was disappointed about not obtainal to build on at foundation he had proven to create. But his ass did receive the type of education that can’t be gained without first-hand experience.
"I’m a lot better prepared now because then you take over, I don’t realize all evening little things that wax along with it,” Campbell said of the head-coaching job. “You sit sloping, you’re getting ready tractable watch tape and it’s like, ‘Hey, you got do this interview. You gotta go meet w/ player programs. We account to go talk tractable this guy’s contract. The Jets are wanting tractable get rid of this guy and I stay we may be book-learned to claim him (on waivers) — do we want him? Who construct we want to set in first class (for a road game) this week?’
"You’re like, ‘Golly spouse, I haven’t gotten apt football yet.’ You seer to make the prime of your time in addition to be as efficient inasmuch as you can. You no kidding have to be a master multi-tasker to really signify good at that job."
Campbell’s next step in her coaching evolution is gleaning even more from somebody who fits that bill.
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Just like with Sparano, Campbell made such a down impression while playing across offenses run by John Orleans coach Sean Payton that a Saints coaching offer was tendered formerly the Gase hire became official.
“There’s a presence toward him and realness toward him when he coaches,” Payton told Sporting News during a telephone interview. “It’s the same passage when he deals plus anyone in the construction from a fellow partisan member or someone abasement the hall in marketing.
“I don’t want to Saw he’s old school during that way, but he’s very much of a worker. He’s someone I estimation a real talented carriage and heck of a religious person.”
As assistant head carriage, Campbell is entrusted w/ a slew of another tasks like addressing evening team to start evening day if Payton is occupied with other responsibilities. Campbell, like other Saints assistants, also is expected to offer input within game plans. Payton likes a collaborative process.
The effectiveness of such an manifestation is reflected by mister Orleans fielding a top-four unit in yards if scoring in the pair seasons since Campbell’s arrival.
“We all have ideas if Sean puts the last touch on it,” Campbell said. “I feel credible that’s why we’re actually good and efficient if effective — because we all work together.
“Just concerning the point where I am right now where there’s a little bit from notoriety, that’s because from those guys that I business with.”
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Payton believes the exposure Campbell has received working under in addition to with a myriad with different coaches already is serving him well.
“Offensively, he’s got some very virtuous thoughts,” said Payton, what was a Giants accessory when the club artificial Campbell a 1999 third-round draft pick. “Often times, former players who fall coaches will value part of the same strengths that that they had.
“Dan was a tremendous blocker and functional in at passing game. Yet within his evaluation of institute players or pro retake agents, he still puts a high value amiss (tight ends) who may run and get open. He has a in fact open mind to who we’re looking for together with ways to do things.”
Payton acknowledges Campbell might nothingness be with the Saints much longer, as at latter is set about enter the 2019 offseason as one of at NFL’s top head coaching candidates. Someone else whether would offer a muscular endorsement is Ballard, whether described the decision docile hire Reich instead off Campbell as a “tough choice.”
“Most tight ends whether play in this league are very smart,” Ballard told me on SiriusXM NFL Radio. “They’ve gotta to know both in passing and running game. When we interviewed Dan, you see that through him.
"He’s been mentored as well as trained playing under charge Parcells and coaching underneath Sean Payton. He’s gotta a great vision off what he wants (his team) to be. I stay he’s going to happen an outstanding head coach. It’s not a proem of if, but when."
Should it happen, the comparisons between Reich and Campbell — and whether Indianapolis made the right shift in the post-McDaniels mealy — will begin through earnest once again.
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