Greg Auman
NFC South Reporter
Change one letter and the NFC South becomes the NFC Youth, which is fitting for a division that features four new offensive coordinators, all of them under 40, with a combined two years of experience as an NFL OC.
Many factors will determine who wins the division, but high on the list will be which of the four — the Bucs’ Liam Coen, the Falcons’ Zac Robinson, the Saints’ Klint Kubiak or the Panthers’ Brad Idzik — can best put together a scheme that doesn’t look like a rookie product.
They are four individuals, but they have connected backgrounds and shared NFL upbringings, with a common precociousness that has them running their own show, with three of the four having some level of autonomy under defensive-minded head coaches.
Coen, the oldest of the four at 38, has one year as an NFL coordinator, with the Rams in 2022, but that was under an offensive head coach in Sean McVay. Kubiak, 37, also has a single season as an NFL OC, with the Vikings in 2021. Entering his 11th NFL season, he has twice as much NFL experience as the others. Robinson, 37, is entering his sixth year and first as an offensive coordinator and playcaller, having moved up the same Rams ladder as Coen. And Idzik, 32, is the fastest riser of them all, following new Panthers coach Dave Canales’ quick ascent to become an OC after working with him in Seattle and Tampa Bay.
The closest pair is Coen and Robinson, who worked together for three years with the Rams, each serving as assistant quarterbacks coach and assistant receivers coach. In 2022, Robinson was the passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach when Coen was the offensive coordinator. As such, they’re also close friends, their families even vacationing together in Ireland last summer.
“There are a lot of similarities with him, both personally and professionally,” Coen said last week of Robinson. “You look at ‘What’s Atlanta going to look like? What are…
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Publish date : 2024-05-31 14:00:28
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