The Colts have hired legendary offensive line coach Howard Mudd as a senior offensive assistant, the club announced today. Additionally, Indianapolis has promoted Marcus Brady to quarterbacks coach and hired Klayton Adams as an assistant offensive line coach.
Mudd, 76, coached NFL offensive lines from 1974-2012, but his longest run with a single team came with the Colts from 1998-2009. During the end of that tenure, Mudd worked with current Indianapolis head coach Frank Reich, who at the time was an offensive assistant and quarterbacks coach on the Colts staff. Mudd originally announced his retirement following his Colts days, but was coaxed back into coaching the Eagles’ front five from 2011-12.
Indianapolis’ offensive line experienced a dramatic turnaround in 2018: the unit gave up a league-low 18 sacks, and ranked as a top-four group in Football Outsiders‘ pass-blocking and run-blocking metrics. Nevertheless, the Colts still opted to fire offensive line coach Dave DeGuglielmo and replace him with former Broncos staffer Chris Strausser.
Cannot wait to see Bob Kravitz’s thoughts on this…&@$#€£
His name is Mudd.
and he probably has dirt on everyone…lol.
Strange. The Colts O-line does great but they fire DGug. Makes you wonder what the inside scoop is….
Some of the Colts beat writers have floated the story that DGug was more of a motivational type leader and not much of a teacher and they wanted a teacher in that role. But if you look at DGug’s career, he never really stuck in any one place. He has coached on 3 teams the last 3 years!!!! Also, he was one of McDaniel’s hires that they retained after McDaniel wussed out and backed out on his word (which worked out for the Colts because Reich was outstanding this past year)
He managed to develop a couple rookies and a guy they grabbed off the waiver wire. The guy must be a decent coach.
Was it DGug who developed those guys or someone else like the Assistant OL Coach (who was hired away by Buffalo) or even the pseudo Assistant OL Coach Matt Slauson (after he was injured) or a combination of the above? Most likely a combination of the above along with others, too.
Reich wants his guys,bottom line and that’s normal