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COPYRIGHT 2005 Century Publishing
JIM FASSEL COACHED THE NEW York Giants to a Super Bowl. Norm Chow helped Southern California win two national championships. Both bring superb credentials to their new jobs as offensive coordinators. Fassel with the Baltimore Ravens--coincidentally, the franchise that beat the Giants in the 2001 Super Bowl--and Chow with the Tennessee Titans.
Those were two of a collection of moves made at perhaps the most important assistant's position on an NFL staff.
Chow wound up in Tennessee after the highly accomplished Mike Heimderdinger's contract expired and he was hired by the New York Jets to replace the befuddled and often beleaguered Paul Hackett. With head-coaching changes in Miami and Cleveland came new staffs: Scott Linehan was enticed by Dolphins coach Nick Saban to come to South Florida, and the Browns' Romeo Crennel hired Maurice Carthon away from Bill Parcells and the Dallas Cowboys.
Steve Loney was chosen by the Minnesota Vikings to replace Linehan, while the Jacksonville Jaguars replaced the fired Bill Musgrave with Carl Smith, who recently worked under Chow at USC. Ron Turner is back for his second stint in the job for the Chicago Bears. Mike Sheppard moves up from QB coach on the New Orleans Saints--even though Aaron Brooks hasn't shown much progress the past few years. Ted Tollner is the latest coach to leave San Francisco for the Detroit Lions, joining former 49ers boss Steve Mariucci. That left a chance for Mike McCarthy to leave New Orleans and take the coordinator's spot in San Francisco, and it cleared Sheppard's elevation with the Saints. Keith Rowen went from the Kansas City Chiefs' tight end coach to the offensive-coordinator job with the Arizona Cardinals. And the defending-champion New England Patriots lost perhaps the best offensive coordinator in the business, Charlie...
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