Schuplinski latest to exit from staff
He’ll coach Giants quarterbacks in reunion with Judge
The New York Giants are plucking another assistant coach from the Miami Dolphins staff, adding Jerry Schuplinski to coach their quarterbacks.
According to a league source, Schuplinski, a former New England Patriots assistant who accompanied Dolphins coach Brian Flores to Miami last year, will reunite with former Patriots special teams coach Joe Judge, who was recently named the Giants new head coach.
Schuplinski, who served as Miami’s assistant quarterback coach, will be receiving a promotion because the Dolphins are adding Roddy Brown from West Virginia University to coach their quarterbacks. Brown worked with Chan Gailey, who replaces Chad O’Shea as Miami’s offensive coordinator, during their days together with the New York Jets.
Schuplinski joins former defensive coordinator Patrick Graham as assistants leaving Flores staff to join the Giants. Graham, who struggled during the 2019 season as the Dolphins defensive coordinator, was allowed to interview with New York and decided to join Judge’s staff as the Giants
defensive coordinator.
Graham will be replaced by Dolphins cornerbacks coach Josh Boyer. Boyer has worked with Flores since 2006 during their tenure with the Patriots and served as the passing game coordinator for Miami’s defense last season.
Along with Gailey and Brown, 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.
It is unclear at this point how many more new assistants Flores needs to hire because of Boyer’s promotion and Schuplinski’s departure. But the Dolphins still need to add an offensive line coach to replace Dave DeGuglielmo, whose contract wasn’t renewed.