[News] Ravens Announce Four Coaching Changes

[BR News]

Baltimore has promoted Chris Hewitt to secondary coach and Mike Macdonald to defensive backs coach. Drew Wilkins has been promoted to assistant defensive line coach and Juney Barnett has been elevated to strength and conditioning coach.

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[Space11jams]

I hope the lost of Leslie does not hurt our DB's progression. Especially with Tavon.

[MadStorkSociety]

I think we needed coaching changes. Not sure these are the ones.

[vext99]

I guess thats a no for brining Ed Reed in

[KidNme]

I think we needed coaching changes. Not sure these are the ones.

I second that. "Could be" the right thing to do but it sure does seem to me like we need an infusion of new blood and ideas.

[Chuckx999]

Hire Ed Reed to help, train, give our secondary a lot of attitude. I guess Harb's is just afraid he would be to strong to deal with.

WE NEED ED!!!! Let Harb's go. Anyone can coach a losing team.

[Chuckx999]

Mornhinweg will continue to coach the team’s quarterbacks. That pretty much means another "BAD" year in 2017.

[Raven in ATL]

no changes at WR coach still... Engram scrapes by again. how can our WRs consistently be so terrible? seems our WRs are literally playing checkers to other teams' chess. our WRs aside from the veterans we rely too much on, show such poor fundamentals. notice how rarely other teams scramble to pick up our cut/released WRs?

[BiggMack91]

With these coaching changes I don't see any difference from last year. That being said we will have the same problems in 2017 that we did in 2016. Mornhinweg is not a winning coordinator an we will essentially have the same offense we did last year which was ok at best and was very inconsistent from week to week. But the run game was a key missing factor in 2016 an the hiring of Greg Roman is a good first step but will he alone be enough to bring the run game back to baltimore that might be the biggest ? going into the 2017 season, in my opinion I don't think so but anything can happen. As far as the Defense goes its just pitiful to watch Dean play soft zone coverage having the CB 7-12 yards off the line which gave AB all those big plays to knock us out the playoffs and you could say the same when we played the cowboys an they gave Dez 10 yards of space almost everytime he lined up.And as far as the pass rush goes it all ties to the same problem until we have a good secondary that can cover for at least 4-8 seconds we will continue to lack in the pass rushing category. But ultimately nothing will change an we will not hold another Lombardy up until the Harbaugh era is over.

[rmcjacket23]

Hire Ed Reed to help, train, give our secondary a lot of attitude. I guess Harb's is just afraid he would be to strong to deal with.

WE NEED ED!!!! Let Harb's go. Anyone can coach a losing team.

I watched the Bills secondary play last season. I didn't see a lot of attitude from them.

Why shouldn't Ed Reed be blamed for their lack of attitude?

[b93333]

It has been proven that we can neither draft nor develop wide receivers... why do we maintain the status quo?

[budman]

13 minutes ago, BiggMack91 said:

With these coaching changes I don't see any difference from last year. That being said we will have the same problems in 2017 that we did in 2016. Mornhinweg is not a winning coordinator an we will essentially have the same offense we did last year which was ok at best and was very inconsistent from week to week. But the run game was a key missing factor in 2016 an the hiring of Greg Roman is a good first step but will he alone be enough to bring the run game back to baltimore that might be the biggest ? going into the 2017 season, in my opinion I don't think so but anything can happen. As far as the Defense goes its just pitiful to watch Dean play soft zone coverage having the CB 7-12 yards off the line which gave AB all those big plays to knock us out the playoffs and you could say the same when we played the cowboys an they gave Dez 10 yards of space almost everytime he lined up.And as far as the pass rush goes it all ties to the same problem until we have a good secondary that can cover for at least 4-8 seconds we will continue to lack in the pass rushing category. But ultimately nothing will change an we will not hold another Lombardy up until the Harbaugh era is over.

Really?? That is what most people said when we hired him. Who is that? we can't win with this guy because I've never heard of him!  Yet the man has come in and won  a boatload of games and a Super Bowl. SMH

[Sunday QB]

Just moving coaches to different jobs is not much of a change, they still coach the same. A true coach change would mean to bring in someone new.

[The Beak]

  47 minutes ago, BiggMack91 said:

With these coaching changes I don't see any difference from last year. That being said we will have the same problems in 2017 that we did in 2016. Mornhinweg is not a winning coordinator an we will essentially have the same offense we did last year which was ok at best and was very inconsistent from week to week. But the run game was a key missing factor in 2016 an the hiring of Greg Roman is a good first step but will he alone be enough to bring the run game back to baltimore that might be the biggest ? going into the 2017 season, in my opinion I don't think so but anything can happen. As far as the Defense goes its just pitiful to watch Dean play soft zone coverage having the CB 7-12 yards off the line which gave AB all those big plays to knock us out the playoffs and you could say the same when we played the cowboys an they gave Dez 10 yards of space almost everytime he lined up.And as far as the pass rush goes it all ties to the same problem until we have a good secondary that can cover for at least 4-8 seconds we will continue to lack in the pass rushing category. But ultimately nothing will change an we will not hold another Lombardy up until the Harbaugh era is over.

Really?? That is what most people said when we hired him. Who is that? we can't win with this guy because I've never heard of him!  Yet the man has come in and won  a boatload of games and a Super Bowl. SMH

Biggmack is 100% correct , This is not coaching changes, it is blowing smoke up the fans backside, the only hope we have is that G Romans can impose his will and take control of the OC job, Morningwig is just plain awful, his late game ineptness nearly cost us 2 games in which we were clearly in control of. Morningwig is Cam Cameron all over again, soooo tired of wimpy herbaugh hiring his cronies, every fan knows the last Super Bowl we won was RAY's Super Bowl not herbaughs, I hope I am wrong , but without a miracle just can't see past 8-8 again this year.......

[budman]

9 minutes ago, The Beak said:

Biggmack is 100% correct , This is not coaching changes, it is blowing smoke up the fans backside, the only hope we have is that G Romans can impose his will and take control of the OC job, Morningwig is just plain awful, his late game ineptness nearly cost us 2 games in which we were clearly in control of. Morningwig is Cam Cameron all over again, soooo tired of wimpy herbaugh hiring his cronies, every fan knows the last Super Bowl we won was RAY's Super Bowl not herbaughs, I hope I am wrong , but without a miracle just can't see past 8-8 again this year.......

Giving Ray too much credit. He didn't even play the whole year. Missed games due to injury. Don't remember him playing offense either. I love the guy but no way does he get ALL the credit.

[nj_ravens]

  31 minutes ago, The Beak said:

Biggmack is 100% correct , This is not coaching changes, it is blowing smoke up the fans backside, the only hope we have is that G Romans can impose his will and take control of the OC job, Morningwig is just plain awful, his late game ineptness nearly cost us 2 games in which we were clearly in control of. Morningwig is Cam Cameron all over again, soooo tired of wimpy herbaugh hiring his cronies, every fan knows the last Super Bowl we won was RAY's Super Bowl not herbaughs, I hope I am wrong , but without a miracle just can't see past 8-8 again this year.......

Giving Ray too much credit. He didn't even play the whole year. Missed games due to injury. Don't remember him playing offense either. I love the guy but no way does he get ALL the credit.

If anyone's it was Joe's.

[nj_ravens]

With these coaching changes I don't see any difference from last year. That being said we will have the same problems in 2017 that we did in 2016. Mornhinweg is not a winning coordinator an we will essentially have the same offense we did last year which was ok at best and was very inconsistent from week to week. But the run game was a key missing factor in 2016 an the hiring of Greg Roman is a good first step but will he alone be enough to bring the run game back to baltimore that might be the biggest ? going into the 2017 season, in my opinion I don't think so but anything can happen. As far as the Defense goes its just pitiful to watch Dean play soft zone coverage having the CB 7-12 yards off the line which gave AB all those big plays to knock us out the playoffs and you could say the same when we played the cowboys an they gave Dez 10 yards of space almost everytime he lined up.And as far as the pass rush goes it all ties to the same problem until we have a good secondary that can cover for at least 4-8 seconds we will continue to lack in the pass rushing category. But ultimately nothing will change an we will not hold another Lombardy up until the Harbaugh era is over.

" we will essentially have the same offense we did last year which was ok at best and was very inconsistent from week to week"

This is inherently not true, since it was Trestman's offense.

[nj_ravens]

It has been proven that we can neither draft nor develop wide receivers... why do we maintain the status quo?

This was true before Engram, before the previous coach Hostler, before Harbaugh. Sure, maybe a great coach could fix it, but I don't think coaching is necessarily the problem.

[usmccharles]

4 minutes ago, nj_ravens said:

This was true before Engram, before the previous coach Hostler, before Harbaugh. Sure, maybe a great coach could fix it, but I don't think coaching is necessarily the problem.

Well I wouldn't say it has improved...at all.  Torrey is the only WR that's been a homegrown talent and yet he was just a deep threat and could never develop his game, ie better routes, locating and adjusting to the ball....etc.   Coaching and scouting are the problems in my opinion

[The Greek]

roman was hired so harbs has someone with coord. exp to replace marty if the offense is stale. pees should have been replaced. he always goes into prevent defense when he has a lead and stops doing what was working the whole game. if he were atlantas def coord he would have blown that lead as well. almost blew it in 2012. hopefully harbs is in his ear whenever we have a lead from now on. all of their jobs depend on it

[Steve32]

Hire Ed Reed to help, train, give our secondary a lot of attitude. I guess Harb's is just afraid he would be to strong to deal with.

WE NEED ED!!!! Let Harb's go. Anyone can coach a losing team.

Why? So we can be as "good" as Buffalo was last year?
No thanks.

[Drew P]

13 minutes ago, Steve32 said:

Why? So we can be as "good" as Buffalo was last year?
No thanks.

One year in with a lame duck coach and people expected miracles?

[Bob21043]

So, "Hewitt was the team’s secondary coach in 2015 before Frazier took the role last season. "
Anybody remember how that was?
These changes don't give me a good feeling......

[Raven1995]

  3 hours ago, Chuckx999 said:

Hire Ed Reed to help, train, give our secondary a lot of attitude. I guess Harb's is just afraid he would be to strong to deal with.

WE NEED ED!!!! Let Harb's go. Anyone can coach a losing team.

Why? So we can be as "good" as Buffalo was last year?
No thanks.

Ed Reed was not the Secondary coach, he was basically an intern. Also, Greg Roman got fired by the Bills and we got him, you want to crap on that too?

[Crusader]

The coach in the picture has the same look as most of the fans on here.

[jazz1988]

  32 minutes ago, nj_ravens said:

This was true before Engram, before the previous coach Hostler, before Harbaugh. Sure, maybe a great coach could fix it, but I don't think coaching is necessarily the problem.

Well I wouldn't say it has improved...at all.  Torrey is the only WR that's been a homegrown talent and yet he was just a deep threat and could never develop his game, ie better routes, locating and adjusting to the ball....etc.   Coaching and scouting are the problems in my opinion

Since Bobby Engram been here The Ravens have only drafted three receivers which is Breshad Perriman,Micheal Campanaro, and Chris Moore. I wasn't really all that disappointed in Breshad Perriman last season which was really his rookie season. It's nothing that doesn't make me think Campanao can't be a pretty good slot receiver if he just able to stay healthy. I didn't think Chris Moore issues was getting opening but instead catching the ball but he was a rookie. Kamar Aiken has been useful for The Ravens and they have been able to get more out of him than previous teams he played for. Mike Wallace obvious was productive and for alot of fans saying he can't catch the ball well he caught 61 percent of his passes which is his highest since his Steeler days.

The 2017 season is definitely a season where The Ravens will have to trust Bobby Engram to help these young receivers step up but I'm not dissatisfied with what he has done so far. When comes to Torrey Smith he didn't become a great route runner or a elite receiver but he did became a player maker and one of the better deep threat in the league. Some players just are what they are and The Ravens atleast were able to maximize that. Mike Wallace was consider just a one trick pony when he was a Steeler and most people think they do a great job finding receivers and coaching them.

[usmccharles]

1 minute ago, jazz1988 said:

Since Bobby Engram been here The Ravens have only drafted three receivers which is Breshad Perriman,Micheal Campanaro, and Chris Moore. I wasn't really all that disappointed in Breshad Perriman last season which was really his rookie season. It's nothing that doesn't make me think Campanao can't be a pretty good slot receiver if he just able to stay healthy. I didn't think Chris Moore issues was getting opening but instead catching the ball but he was a rookie. Kamar Aiken has been useful for The Ravens and they have been able to get more out of him than previous teams he played for. Mike Wallace obvious was productive and for alot of fans saying he can't catch the ball well he caught 61 percent of his passes which is his highest since his Steeler days.

The 2017 season is definitely a season where The Ravens will have to trust Bobby Engram to help these young receivers step up but I'm not dissatisfied with what he has done so far. When comes to Torrey Smith he didn't become a great route runner or a elite receiver but he did became a player maker and one of the better deep threat in the league. Some players just are what they are and The Ravens atleast were able to maximize that. Mike Wallace was consider just a one trick pony when he was a Steeler and most people think they do a great job finding receivers and coaching them.

They definitely are better than us at developing talent.  I wont give much praise on Brown because lets face it, drafting someone that late and them turning into an elite player at that position is extremely rare....mostly luck.  but they have always seemed to have good WRs that contribute in their given role

[b93333]

2 hours ago, The Greek said:

roman was hired so harbs has someone with coord. exp to replace marty if the offense is stale. pees should have been replaced. he always goes into prevent defense when he has a lead and stops doing what was working the whole game. if he were atlantas def coord he would have blown that lead as well. almost blew it in 2012. hopefully harbs is in his ear whenever we have a lead from now on. all of their jobs depend on it

Why wait until we dig ourselves into a hole to make the change?

[jsarrocohome@yahoo.com]

  2 hours ago, The Greek said:

roman was hired so harbs has someone with coord. exp to replace marty if the offense is stale. pees should have been replaced. he always goes into prevent defense when he has a lead and stops doing what was working the whole game. if he were atlantas def coord he would have blown that lead as well. almost blew it in 2012. hopefully harbs is in his ear whenever we have a lead from now on. all of their jobs depend on it

Why wait until we dig ourselves into a hole to make the change?

This guy should have been gone after last year

[wsh3]

Please excuse my ignorance, but what is the difference between a secondary coach and a defensive backs coach?