Dolphins to hire former Jets offensive line coach
The Miami Dolphins are allowing new offensive coordinator Chan Gailey to put some of his old New York Jets staff back together in Miami.
According to a league source, Gailey, who replaced the fired Chad O’Shea, will be joined on the Dolphins staff by offensive line coach Steve Marshall.
Gailey, Marshall and new quarterbacks coach Robby Brown were all assistants on Todd Bowles’ Jets staff. Dolphins receivers coach Karl Dorrell also was part of that staff.
Marshall replaces Dave DeGuglielmo, whose contract wasn’t renewed.
Marshall, who has spent 40 years as a coach on the professional and college ranks, coached the Jets offensive lines from 2015-17.
During Marshall’s last season in New York, the Jets offense, which at that time wasn’t led by Gailey, finished the 2017 season ranked 28th, and the offensive line struggled with consistency, partly because of injuries.
Last year, Marshall was the offensive line coach for the Memphis Express in the now-defunct Alliance of American Football.
Marshall, 63, also served as offensive line coach for will have a new coach in Steve the Green Bay Packers, Houston Texans and Cleveland Browns.
He also was the offensive coordinator for Virginia Tech, Texas A&M and North Carolina.
Along with Gailey, Brown and Marshall, the Dolphins are hiring former Illinois defensive line coach Austin Clark, who will coach the team’s outside linebackers, and Curt Kuntz, who spent the past seven years as head coach at Struthers High School in Ohio, to coach Miami’s defensive backs.
Kuntz replaces Tony Oden, an assistant Flores inherited from former Dolphins coach Adam Gase and decided against retaining.
Josh Boyer, who spent
last season as Miami’s secondary coach, was promoted to defensive coordinator after Patrick Graham left the Dolphins to take an identical position with the New York Giants.
Jerry Schuplinski, who served as Miami’s assistant quarterback coach, also left to join the Giants, who named him quarterbacks coach on Joe Judge’s staff.
Marshall inherits an offensive line that struggled most of the 2019 season, allowing 58 sacks, which tied the Carolina Panthers for the most in the NFL. The Dolphins also set a new franchise low for rushing yards in a season, generating a league-worst 1,156 yards on 349 attempts.