All Georgia jokes aside, you're right. Having an NFL connection helps dispel the myth that playing in a spread offense doesn't prepare you to play in the NFL. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
-----Original Message----- From: "Ed Williamson" <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 00:42:37 To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [gatortalk] New DC Frankly, Urban hit a home run getting this Coach. Every football playing stud in South Florida knows him and would salivate over playing for him and being coached by him since he is a Dolphins coach. Channing Crowder loves him and calls him the "Best Assistant coach in the NFL". Just sayin.......... Eddie ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [gatortalk] New DC > One last thing: despite having coached at UF in '91, this guy coached at > Georgia in '97. > > Experience at Georgia might disqualify him entirely. I hope he's been > de-loused since. > > > Go Gators!!!! > > Ken B. (NYC Gator) > > Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with SprintSpeed > > -----Original Message----- > From: "John Bowers" <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 22:04:43 > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: [gatortalk] New DC > > Sources close to the Miami Dolphins confirmed Thursday night that inside > linebackers coach George Edwards is leaving to take the defensive > coordinator's position at Florida. > > Edwards, an assistant at UF under Steve Spurrier in 1991, is the most > tenured member of the Dolphins' coaching staff, just completing his fifth > season with the team. He has 11 years of NFL coaching experience, > including > one as a defensive coordinator. > > Edwards, 43, has previous NFL coaching stints with Cleveland, Washington > and > Dallas. He was the defensive coordinator for the Redskins under Spurrier > in > 2003. > > Before going to the NFL, Edwards, a former defensive standout at Duke, was > an assistant at four schools - UF (1991), Appalachian State (1992-95), > Duke > (1996) and Georgia (1997). > > The hiring of Edwards will complete Urban Meyer's coaching staff. > > In his first three seasons with the Dolphins, Edwards tutored the > linebackers. The past two seasons he's focused on coaching the inside > linebackers, including former Florida standout Channing Crowder. > > Crowder has called Edwards "the best assistant in the NFL. Period." > > Meyer and interim coach Steve Addazio have hired three new assistants this > week - Edwards, Stanford defensive ends and special teams coordinator D.J. > Durkin and Syracuse running backs coach Stan Drayton, who was Meyer's > running backs coach at Florida from 2005-07. > > > > >
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