jeanpierre

Saints coaching staff set for huge meeting with focus on 2016 season | FOX Sports

The New Orleans Saints are now turning their attention towards the 2016 season. While the players will likely take some additional time off, for the coaches on the Saints staff, they'll enjoy a week away, and then it's back to a massive meeting that will focus on pretty much anything you could imagine.

When the whole Sean Payton drama was finally put to bed, the head coach spoke a bit about the gameplan moving forward this off-season.

Via Joel A. Erickson of The New Orleans Advocate:

“We’ll meet collectively as a personnel department and coaching staff and go through each player on the roster,” Payton said Wednesday. “Vision, grade, strengths, weaknesses (for each player) and after that meeting takes place, you transition into your scouting, the college draft, Senior Bowl and then any potential free agent we would want to coach or someone else could put their eyes on.”



So Next Week Is The Summit Meeting For The Saints Staff...

It's not that my way is the right way, I just make the right way my way...

saintfan

Ingalls is gone. Maybe our o-line play will get better now...

Danno

Lots of coaching connections and hirings occur during Senior Bowl week.

K Major

I wonder what Jim Tomsula is doing these days?

brees84

Dan Roushar: first RB coach then TE coach and now OL coach. In 2017 WR coach?

jeanpierre

OL Coach Brett Engalls is out...

Offensive Line Assistant Kyle Levan leaves for college coaching position...

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...nts-line-coach

Changes still coming?!?

Head Coach Sean Payton
Director of Coaching Administration - Jason Mitchell (Personal Assistant to Head Coach)
Assistant Head Coach, Linebackers Joe Vitt
Assistant Head Coach, Tight Ends Dan Campbell

Offensive Coordinator, Pete Carmichael
Assistant Coach - Brendan Nugent
Coach, Quarterbacks - Joe Lombardi
Coach, Running Backs - Joel Thomas
Coach, Offensive Linemen - Dan Roushar
Coach, Wide Receivers - John Morton
Assistant Coach, Wide Receivers - Greg Lewis

Senior Defensive Assistant, Dennis Allen
Assistant Coach - Marcus Ungaro
Coach, Defensive Linemen - Bill Johnson
Coach, Inside Linebackers - James Willis
Coach, Outside Linebackers - Brian Young
Coach, Secondary (Defensive Backs) - Aaron Glenn

Special Teams Coordinator, Greg McMahon
Assistant Coach - Stan Kwan

Coach, Strength and Conditioning - Dan Dalrymple
Assistant Coach, Strength and Conditioning - Charles Byrd
Assistant Coach, Strength and Conditioning - Rob Wenning

It's not that my way is the right way, I just make the right way my way...

jeanpierre

Well, count two more wins for next season...

Mike Smith to be Buccaneers defensive coordinator | ProFootballTalk

jeanpierre

Some background on the Saints "Utility" Man, Offensive Linemen Coach, Dan Roushar...

Born September 27, 1960 (age 55)

Similar background, region as HC Sean Payton (Eastern Illinois) as he played quarterback for Northern Illinois, 1981-82...

First coaching gig was with HC Bill Lynch as Offensive Backfield Coach for Butler University in Indiana from 86-88 (winning Heartland Conference '87, '88) and promoted to Offensive Coordinator and Offensive Line Coach from 89-92,winning Heartland Conference in '89 with Lynch and the Midwest Intercollegiate Football Conference in '91(HC Bob Bartolomeo) and again in '92 (HC Ken LaRose)...

Coached Rhode Island's offensive line in 1993...

In 1994 he was Offensive Coordinator and Quarterbacks Coach at Ball State where Bill Lynch had been OC; of note, Saints Coach Mike Neu just took over as Head Coach and WR Willie Snead played...

Joined the big times and Lou Tepper's Illini as the QB Coach in 1995; in 1996, he took over Tackles and Tight Ends...

Returned to his alma mater in 1997, Northern Illinois, to coach the Offensive Line under HC Joe Novak; from 1998 to 2002 he added Offensive Coordinator to his O-line responsibilities...

Returned to the Illini in 2003 to coach RBs under HC Ron Turner where the team won one game; in 2004 added Offensive Coordinator duties; yes, Pierre Thomas was a student under Roushar for 2003 and 2004; he left when Ron Turner's tenure came to an end, unable to recruit in the Big 10...

In 2005-06, he coached the Cincinnati Bearcats Offensive Line with HC Mark Dantonio...

Followed Mark Dantonio taking the same position with Michigan State (Offensive Line) from 2007–10; continued a trend of being promoted to Offensive Coordinator, plus TEs from 2011–2012...

Joined the Saints in 2013 and coached RBs through 2014; last season he was the TEs coach...

And now he's the Offensive Line Coach...

Believe the offensive line is in good hands; this is a good thing...

It's not that my way is the right way, I just make the right way my way...

CharityMike

We were bringing all the old coach's back, I was waiting to see if Kromer would have been back. He may have his issues but he was the best O line coach this team has ever had.

Crusader

I like the fact that Dan Roushar has coached most everything on the offensive side of the ball and that he played QB himself. He will have plenty of knowledge of how protection schemes needs to work.