Dallas' Gibbs Reportedly Interviews
 

Dallas' Gibbs reportedly interviews

Cowboys LB coach looks like Saints' favorite to run defense



Saturday, January 21, 2006
By Mike Triplett
Staff writer Times Picayune



Onetime LSU defensive coordinator Gary Gibbs interviewed for the Saints' defensive coordinator position Friday, according to league sources.

Gibbs, who spent the past four years as the Dallas Cowboys' linebackers coach, is the apparent front-runner for the job, but no contract has been offered, sources said. Gibbs worked with new coach Sean Payton on the Cowboys' staff for the past three seasons.

Payton was unavailable for comment.

Gibbs reportedly signed a one-year contract extension with the Cowboys this month but would be allowed to leave if offered the job.

Gibbs, 53, has never been an NFL coordinator and has only been an assistant coach in the league for four years. He was the Oklahoma Sooners' head coach from 1989 to '94, then took six years off before serving as a defensive coordinator at Georgia in 2000 and LSU in 2001. The Tigers won the SEC championship game and the Sugar Bowl that season under second-year head coach Nick Saban.

Gibbs then joined the Cowboys' staff in 2002 under former head coach Dave Campo. He was retained, along with defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer and others, when Bill Parcells became Dallas' coach in 2003.

Gibbs has earned solid reviews coaching a linebacker corps that is considered one of the Cowboys' strengths. Last month he interviewed for the Texas A&M defensive coordinator job, but he reportedly turned it down.

The Cowboys switched from a 4-3 defensive alignment to a 3-4 defense in 2005. It is unknown which defense Payton and Gibbs would prefer if Gibbs is hired in New Orleans.

The Saints' new head coach is expected to bring in his own coordinators, but he had planned to speak with all of the remaining Saints assistants to consider them for jobs on his staff.

According to a CBS report, Saban has been in touch with incumbent Saints defensive coordinator Rick Venturi about a position on his staff with the Miami Dolphins.

Venturi, who still is in San Antonio recovering from postseason hip surgery, was unavailable for comment Friday. But he said Wednesday that he has been in touch with some coaching associates around the league.


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Re: Dallas' Gibbs Reportedly Interviews
 

Oh please do, then we don't have to worry abut the 'fins for a couple of years to come. For the Saints it sounds good with a guy that can get the best out of his LBs thats what we need.

I'd say that is pretty impressive for Gibbs. I thnik he will be an excellent additon.

A helluva lot better than Mr. V.

He succeeded legendary coach Barry Switzer and guided the Sooners to three bowl games and an overall record of 44-23-2 from 1989 to 1994.

Here's the thing that strikes me as the most interesting about this guy:

[quote]defensive coordinator at Georgia in 2000 and LSU in 2001. The Tigers won the SEC championship game and the Sugar Bowl that season under second-year head coach Nick Saban.[quote]

And all of us LSU fans remember EXACTLY how dominant that defense was the year they won the national championship. I'm starting to get excited about the coaching moves now........but not TOO excited.

So if we do FireVenturi.....then i will keep my name until he helps the fins get to the SB? LOL!!!

Would we be able to play a 3-4 with the players we have or what would we need to upgrade?

We dont have enough decent LB's to play a 4-3, much less a 3-4 so i say no way

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[quote="D_it_up2"]Here's the thing that strikes me as the most interesting about this guy:

[quote]defensive coordinator at Georgia in 2000 and LSU in 2001. The Tigers won the SEC championship game and the Sugar Bowl that season under second-year head coach Nick Saban.Ummm... Don't get too excited, Gibbs was coaching with the Cowboys when LSU won that national title. However, I think he will be a much better D-Coordinator than Venturi. Of course, so would most other coordinators around the league. 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

I don't know about Gibbs. LSU's defense wasn't that great under him. They gave up lots of yards and points. In fact, didn't Saban fire him?

The one thing about Gibbs is his ability to mold LB's. Being this is the weakest link on our defense & we are sure to draft at least one in the draft, I see this as a plus. I mean, look what he did with Trev Faulk & Bradie James at LSU. At the time they were considered one of the best LB corps in the country!

In 2001, LSU gave up 22.3 points per game. That dosen't include the shoot out against Illinois in the Sugar Bowl. In 2000 they gave up 20.1 points per game. No to Gibbs.

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well thankgod miami wants venturi. let them have him. leave rick. please.

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you can't use LSU's points given up per game during those years as an accurate measure of how good a defensive coordinator gibbs is... that is ridiculous. you are comparing the college level to the pro level and it doesn't match up... for starters, that LSU defense had guys who never will play a down in the league who were starter, so yeah, they're going to give up a lot of yds/points... you have to look at what he got out of his players and how he did a great job at coaching them... look at james, faulk, etc. he did a great job utilizing them and i feel if we can give him some talent at this level, he'll do the same thing, as far as utilizing the talent the best way possible... that year LSU blitzed nearly every down and applied more than adequate pressure on the quarterback.... he had great de's and suitable dl's, which allowed him to coach up his lb's and press with his cb's... the man can definitely coach a defense....

That is all we have to go by at this point. If the guy's defense is that bad in college, what do you think he is going to do in the NFL?

The 2003 defense had players like that too. Do the names Jack Hunt, Lionnel Turner (our best linebacker that year), Randal Gay (who is a dime-back in the NFL at best despite his rookie year), and Eric Alexander ring a bell? They all started on that defense. Gay was the only one to lose his starting job because he broke his hand in the beginning of that season.

The college game is more about coaching than physical ability, I don't care what anyone says. Besides, it's not like LSU had bad recruiting classes. Even when the team had back-to-back losing seasons under Dinardo their recruiting was still good enough to build a solid defense, which Gibbs didn't give them.

LOL...no matter who we interview there will be naysayers. Why don't we just keep Venturi??? You are basing his career of of two years when he was also LB coach of the Cowboys and head coach of the Sooners. Look at the whole picture not just two years.

Dude Gibbs didn't even get to LSU until 2001. He took the Cowboys job soon after that. So he should be a magician and change the defense overnight???? It takes a lot longer to build a consistent unit in college than it does in the NFL. He couldn't realistically be expected to turn the LSU D into the stifling unit that they are today in a year. What we are seeing now with LSU's D is the result of work such as his. Apparently Dallas was impressed with him if they hired him a year later.