Philbin named offensive coordinator
By Pete Dougherty
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Coach Mike McCarthy promoted Joe Philbin to the Green Bay Packers’ offensive coordinator position on Monday, among several promotions he announced on his coaching staff.
McCarthy also promoted linebackers coach Winston Moss to assistant head coach defense. There were no indications in the Packers’ press release suggesting Moss would be running the Packers’ defense instead of defensive coordinator Bob Sanders, and the release said only that Moss will continue to coach linebackers and also “will serve as McCarthy’s primary aide and will expand his interactions with the entire football team.”
Also, with Philbin moving from offensive line coach to offensive coordinator, McCarthy promoted two other offensive-line assistants to more prominent roles.
James Campen goes from assistant offensive line coach to offensive line coach, and Jerry Fontenot replaces Campen as offensive line assistant. Fontenot was a second offensive line assistant last season.
Philbin replaces Jeff Jagodzinski, who left after one season as the Packers’ offensive coordinator to become Boston College’s head coach.
Jagodzinski was the architect of the Packers’ zone-blocking run scheme, and now Philbin will take over that role as the coordinator of the run game, while McCarthy continues to coordinate the team’s passing game.