I thought it would be interesting to compare our new OC to the rest of the OCs in the NFC in terms of comparing years of NFL coaching experience as well as years of experience as an NFL offensive coordinator. Not surprisingly, Kellen Moore is the least experienced OC in the NFC. I’m certainly NOT saying that means he won’t be successful; I’m just interested in looking at comparative years of experience with the rest of the NFC.
Before getting into the specifics or each NFC OC, here are the stats regarding average years experience for all NFC OCs as an NFL coach, as well as avg years experience as an NFL OC:
- Average years experience as an NFL coach: 14 years
- Average years experience as an NFL offensive Coordinator: 6 years
All NFC Coordinators by team with yrs as an NFL coach and as an OC
NFC EAST
- DAL: Kellen Moore- 1 year exp as NFL coach/0 years exp as OC
- WASH: Kevin O’Connell- 4 yrs as NFL coach/0 years exp as OC
- PHI: Mike Groh- 6 yrs as NFL coach/1 year as an OC
- NYG: Mike Shula- 24 years as NFL coach/7 years as an OC
NFC CENTRAL
- CHI- Mark Helfrich- 2 yrs exp as NFL coach/1 as an OC
- DET- Darrell Bevell- 17 yrs as NFL coach/12 as an OC
- GB- Nathaniel Hackett- 11 yrs as an NFL coach/7 as an OC
- MN- Kevin Stefanski- 15 yrs as NFL coach/7 yrs as an OC
NFC SOUTH
- ATL- Dirk Koetter- 11 yrs as NFL coach/9 as an OC
- CAR- Norv Turner- 31 yrs as NFL coach/12 as an OC
- NO- Pete Carmichael, Jr- 18 yrs as NFL coach/10 as an OC
- TB- Byron Leftwich- 3 yrs as NFL coach/0 as an OC
NFC WEST
- ARI- Tom Clements- 20 yrs as NFL coach/5 yrs as an OC
- LA- (shared) Aaron Cromar- 18 yrs as NFL coach/2 as an OC; Shane Waldron- 5 yrs as NFL coach/0 as an OC
- SF- Kyle Shanihan- (also serves as HC) 14 yrs exp as NFL coach/9 as an OC
- SEA- Brian Schoettenheimer-19 years NFL coach/11 as an OC
Of all the NFC OCs, the ones closest to Moore in experience are CHI’s Mark Helfrich, Kevin O’Connell of PHI and Byron Leftwich of TB. All 3 have slightly more experience although it’s minimal with all of them.
We don’t know yet know if Kellen Moore is the next great OC. Being inexperienced is not always an indication of future problems. But we do know, he’s the youngest and least experienced OC in the NFC. For probably many reasons, most teams select an OC with more experience.Im certainly hoping young Kellen Moore is a big success.
I do find it interesting that Moore was selected as OC in a year when our HC is supposedlyin the hot seat.
Your thoughts?