New Coaching News from KFFL

ChiefsFan4Life · 01-23-2006, 03:23 PM

Chiefs | Priefer hired
Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:02:19 -0800

The Kansas City Chiefs have announced the team has hired Mike Priefer as the team's special teams coach.

Chiefs | Matsko hired
Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:02:19 -0800

The Kansas City Chiefs have announced the team has hired John Matsko as the team's offensive line coach.

Chiefs | Blackmon hired
Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:02:18 -0800

The Kansas City Chiefs have announced the team has hired Don Blackmon as the team's linebackers coach.

Chiefs | Wallis retained
Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:02:17 -0800

The Kansas City Chiefs have announced the team has retained Darvin Wallis as the team's defensive assistant/quality control coach.

Chiefs | Long retained
Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:02:04 -0800

The Kansas City Chiefs have announced the team has retained Billy Long as the team's assistant strength and conditioning coach.

Chiefs | Hurd retained
Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:01:51 -0800

The Kansas City Chiefs have announced the team has retained Jeff Hurd as the team's strength and conditioning coach.

Kylo Ren · 01-23-2006, 03:26 PM

What do we know about these guys? Where did they come from? Do they have a good track record of success?

ILChief · 01-23-2006, 03:27 PM

Start printing Super Bowl tickets!

FAX · 01-23-2006, 03:28 PM

Mike Priefer - Giants something or other?

John Matsko - Oline coach at Rams?

Don Blackmon - ???? Bills maybe?

FAX THE TRYING TO PLACE THESE PERSONS OF INTEREST

beer bacon · 01-23-2006, 03:28 PM

We still don't have a secondary coach right? Dear God, I somehow hope we can pick up Henderson as the secondary coach/Assistant HC.

Lurch · 01-23-2006, 03:28 PM

Don't know what to think.....

Mike Priefer

Mike Priefer begins his second season with the Giants as one of just two holdovers retained by Tom Coughlin from the previous coaching staff. The other is tight ends coach Mike Pope. Priefer was hired on Feb. 4, 2003 to fill the new position of assistant special teams coach.

Priefer spent the 2002 season in those same roles on Coughlin’s staff in Jacksonville. It was his first season in the NFL. His father, Chuck Priefer, is entering his eighth season as the special teams coach of the Detroit Lions.

Priefer graduated from the Naval Academy in 1989 with a degree in economics. He earned a master’s degree in management from the University of Maryland in 1997.

Priefer played quarterback and wide receiver on Navy’s junior varsity and lightweight teams from 1985 to 1988. He later flew helicopters as a Naval officer from 1991 to 1994. Priefer was stationed on the USS America in the Persian Gulf a year after the Persian Gulf War.

Priefer began his coaching career at the Naval Academy in 1994. In three seasons as a Navy coach, he worked with the special teams, serving as the kickers, punters and snappers coach for the varsity in 1994, and the junior varsity defensive coordinator and special teams coach in 1995 and `96. He also worked with the linebackers and defensive line.

In 1997-98, Priefer was the tackles/tight ends coach and assistant special teams coordinator at Youngstown State, which won the Division 1-AA national championship in 1997. He was the inside linebackers coach/special teams coordinator at Virginia Military Institute in 1999 and the defensive tackles coach and special teams assistant at Northern Illinois in 2000-2001.

Priefer was born on Aug. 21, 1966. He and his wife, Debbie, have four children: daughters Samantha (7/10/93) and Katie (11/13/98) and sons Michael, Jr. (12/13/94) and Wilson (12/21/97).

DeepSouth · 01-23-2006, 03:30 PM

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EDWARDS NAMES SIX MORE ASSISTANTS TO HIS STAFF
Jan 23, 2006, 2:56:18 PM

Chiefs head coach Herm Edwards announced on Monday that he has added six more members to his coaching staff. As per club policy, terms of the agreements were not announced. Edwards announced that Jeff Hurd (strength and conditioning), Billy Long (assistant strength and conditioning) and Darvin Wallis (defensive assistant/quality control) will all be retained. New members of the Kansas City Chiefs coaching staff include Don Blackmon (linebackers), John Matsko (offensive line) and Mike Priefer (special teams).

Blackmon comes to Kansas City as the Chiefs linebackers coach after spending the past three seasons in that same capacity in Buffalo (2003-05). Under Blackmon’s guidance, Bills LB Takeo Spikes earned his first two Pro Bowl invitations following the 2003 and 2004 seasons. Prior to joining Buffalo, Blackmon spent five seasons with Atlanta as the linebackers coach (’97-00) and defensive coordinator (2001) and was part of a Falcons staff that helped guide the club to a berth in Super Bowl XXXIII. The Pompano, Florida native also coached the linebackers for New England (’88-90), Cleveland (’91) and the N.Y. Giants (’93-96). A three-time All-Missouri Valley Conference selection at Tulsa, Blackmon was a fourth-round pick of New England in the ‘81 NFL Draft. He started 72 of 89 games the next seven seasons and was a member of the Patriots squad that faced Chicago in Super Bowl XX. He finished his career with 29.5 sacks.

Hurd enters his ninth season as the club’s head strength and conditioning coach. A Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and a member of the National Strength and Conditioning Association, he joined the Chiefs in ‘98 after spending the previous three seasons as the assistant strength and conditioning coach for Jacksonville (’95-97). He began his coaching career as a graduate assistant strength coach in ‘84 at his alma mater of Fort Hays State. After leaving Fort Hays, Hurd served as the head strength coach for Delta State (’85-86), Western Michigan (’87-93) and Tulsa (’94), in addition to a stint as the assistant strength and conditioning coach at Clemson (’86-87) before joining the Jaguars in ‘95. Hurd was raised in Parker, Arizona and was a four-year letterman on the Fort Hays State baseball squad.

Long begins his sixth season as the Chiefs assistant strength and conditioning coach. He joined Kansas City after a nine-year stay (’92-00) at Southern University where he served as that school’s offensive line coach and the school’s strength and conditioning coach. Long also served as a longtime consultant with the St. Louis Rams. He also enjoyed a coaching stint as an offensive line coach/strength and conditioning coach at Arkansas – Pine Bluff (’87-91) after beginning his coaching tenure working with the offensive and defensive lines at Alabama State (’81-86), where he also served as strength and conditioning coach.

Matsko joins the Chiefs as the club’s offensive line coach after spending the previous seven seasons as the offensive line coach in St. Louis (’99-05). During his time with the Rams, he tutored seven-time Pro Bowl T Orlando Pace. Prior to joining the Rams he enjoyed stints as the offensive line coach for Arizona (’92-93), New Orleans (’94-96) and the N.Y. Giants (’97-98). The Mentor, Ohio native had collegiate coaching stops at Southern California (’87-91), Arizona (’86), Navy (’85), North Carolina (’78-84) and Miami (OH) in ‘77. The Kent State graduate started his coaching career at Kent State (’73) and Miami (’74-75) before serving as the head coach at Danbury HS in Lakeside-Marblehead, Ohio.

Priefer was named Kansas City’s special teams coach after spending the last three seasons as the assistant special teams coach with the N.Y. Giants (2003-05). He originally entered the NFL coaching ranks as an assistant special teams coach with Jacksonville (2002). He began his coaching career at his alma mater of the Navel Academy (’94-96) before enjoying stops at Youngstown State (’97-98), Virginia Military Institute (’99) and Northern Illinois (2000-01). Priefer was a quarterback and wide receiver on the Naval Academy’s junior varsity and lightweight teams. In addition, he flew helicopters as a Naval officer and was stationed on USS America in the Persian Gulf after the Persian Gulf War.

Wallis embarks on his 25th season as an NFL coach in 2006. A member of the Chiefs coaching staff since ‘89, Wallis’ 18-year tenure with Kansas City is the second-longest stint by an assistant coach in franchise history. Only Tom Pratt (21 years) owns more years of service with the club. Wallis also joins Pratt by holding the distinction of becoming the only other assistant coach in franchise history to serve with four different head coaches (Marty Schottenheimer, Gunther Cunningham, Dick Vermeil and Edwards). Wallis and Edwards were both members of Schottenheimer’s staff in Kansas City from ‘92-94. Prior to joining the Chiefs, Wallis spent seven seasons on Schottenheimer’s staff with the Cleveland Browns (’82-88).

Lurch · 01-23-2006, 03:30 PM

The Rams O-Line wasn't known for greatness, outside Pace....

John Matsko
Title Offensive Line
NFL Exp 13 years
With Rams 6 years

Coaching Highlights:Matsko will enter his seventh season with the Rams in 2005, and will team up with John Benton to coach the offensive line for the second year in a row. Matsko, who teamed with legendary NFL coach Jim Hanifan to coach the men up front for his first five seasons in St. Louis, came to the Rams in 1999 after coaching the offensive line for the New York Giants from 1997-98.
Prior to joining the Giants, Matsko coached the offensive line for the New Orleans Saints from 1994-96 and entered the NFL to coach in the same capacity for the Arizona Cardinals from 1992-93.

Matsko was a fullback at Kent State and began his coaching career there in 1973 as a student assistant coach. John coached at Miami of Ohio for three years, two as a graduate assistant (1974-75) and one as offensive line coach (1977).

Matsko was head coach at Danbury High in Lakeside-Marblehead, Ohio, in 1976. Matsko was offensive coordinator and offensive line coach at North Carolina (1978-84). He coached at Navy (1985) and Arizona (1986), then moved to the University of Southern California (1987-91), serving as offensive coordinator during his last three seasons at USC.

John is from Mentor, Ohio, and has a bachelor’s degree in business education from Kent State and a Master’s in education from Miami of Ohio. He is married to Kim, has two daughters, Marie and Liz, and two sons, John and Michael. The Matskos reside in Lake St. Louis, MO.

teedubya · 01-23-2006, 03:31 PM

Why not keep Irv Eatmon, who was Asst OLine... and promote him? Wonder what the deal with that is.

tk13 · 01-23-2006, 03:32 PM

No secondary coach, yet. It's definitely looking like we're waiting to see if Donnie Henderson falls into any of the remaining DC jobs.

King_Chief_Fan · 01-23-2006, 03:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gunther_Fan

What do we know about these guys? Where did they come from? Do they have a good track record of success?

The o line coach is junk.

You see what happened to the Rams the last couple of years?
Pretty much the same players, but have gone to hell in a hand basket.

Jackson couldn't get yards and Bulger ended up on the sidelines busted up and out of action for most of the year.

LJ and Green are going have a tough year

**Reaper16** · 01-23-2006, 03:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by King_Chief_Fan

The o line coach is junk.

You see what happened to the Rams the last couple of years?
Pretty much the same players, but have gone to hell in a hand basket.

Jackson couldn't get yards and Bulger ended up on the sidelines busted up and out of action for most of the year.

LJ and Green are going have a tough year

Solari's still on staff, and our o-line > Rams o-line anyway.

Eleazar · 01-23-2006, 03:38 PM

prepare for implosion over hiring of a position coach that no one knows a thing about except that he sucks

tk13 · 01-23-2006, 03:39 PM

I wouldn't be so fast to jump on the Rams' O-line coach. I think that has a lot to do with the HC's philosophy. Martz didn't care about turnovers or protecting the QB. They were just fine under Vermeil... and Edwards puts a lot more emphasis on the O-line and running the ball than Martz did, and we still have Solari coaching over him, I'm sure our O-line will be just fine.

C-Mac · 01-23-2006, 03:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by King_Chief_Fan

The o line coach is junk.

You see what happened to the Rams the last couple of years?
Pretty much the same players, but have gone to hell in a hand basket.

Jackson couldn't get yards and Bulger ended up on the sidelines busted up and out of action for most of the year.

LJ and Green are going have a tough year

Ya, too bad they didnt keep Solari........oh wait.

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Lurch You rang? Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Greenbriar, USA Casino cash: $9994957	Don't know what to think..... Mike Priefer Mike Priefer begins his second season with the Giants as one of just two holdovers retained by Tom Coughlin from the previous coaching staff. The other is tight ends coach Mike Pope. Priefer was hired on Feb. 4, 2003 to fill the new position of assistant special teams coach. Priefer spent the 2002 season in those same roles on Coughlin’s staff in Jacksonville. It was his first season in the NFL. His father, Chuck Priefer, is entering his eighth season as the special teams coach of the Detroit Lions. Priefer graduated from the Naval Academy in 1989 with a degree in economics. He earned a master’s degree in management from the University of Maryland in 1997. Priefer played quarterback and wide receiver on Navy’s junior varsity and lightweight teams from 1985 to 1988. He later flew helicopters as a Naval officer from 1991 to 1994. Priefer was stationed on the USS America in the Persian Gulf a year after the Persian Gulf War. Priefer began his coaching career at the Naval Academy in 1994. In three seasons as a Navy coach, he worked with the special teams, serving as the kickers, punters and snappers coach for the varsity in 1994, and the junior varsity defensive coordinator and special teams coach in 1995 and `96. He also worked with the linebackers and defensive line. In 1997-98, Priefer was the tackles/tight ends coach and assistant special teams coordinator at Youngstown State, which won the Division 1-AA national championship in 1997. He was the inside linebackers coach/special teams coordinator at Virginia Military Institute in 1999 and the defensive tackles coach and special teams assistant at Northern Illinois in 2000-2001. Priefer was born on Aug. 21, 1966. He and his wife, Debbie, have four children: daughters Samantha (7/10/93) and Katie (11/13/98) and sons Michael, Jr. (12/13/94) and Wilson (12/21/97). __________________ Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. -- Benjamin Franklin
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DeepSouth War Eagle !!! Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Mobile, AL 36608 Casino cash: $9619387	http://www.kcchiefs.com/news/2006/01..._to_his_staff/ EDWARDS NAMES SIX MORE ASSISTANTS TO HIS STAFF Jan 23, 2006, 2:56:18 PM Chiefs head coach Herm Edwards announced on Monday that he has added six more members to his coaching staff. As per club policy, terms of the agreements were not announced. Edwards announced that Jeff Hurd (strength and conditioning), Billy Long (assistant strength and conditioning) and Darvin Wallis (defensive assistant/quality control) will all be retained. New members of the Kansas City Chiefs coaching staff include Don Blackmon (linebackers), John Matsko (offensive line) and Mike Priefer (special teams). Blackmon comes to Kansas City as the Chiefs linebackers coach after spending the past three seasons in that same capacity in Buffalo (2003-05). Under Blackmon’s guidance, Bills LB Takeo Spikes earned his first two Pro Bowl invitations following the 2003 and 2004 seasons. Prior to joining Buffalo, Blackmon spent five seasons with Atlanta as the linebackers coach (’97-00) and defensive coordinator (2001) and was part of a Falcons staff that helped guide the club to a berth in Super Bowl XXXIII. The Pompano, Florida native also coached the linebackers for New England (’88-90), Cleveland (’91) and the N.Y. Giants (’93-96). A three-time All-Missouri Valley Conference selection at Tulsa, Blackmon was a fourth-round pick of New England in the ‘81 NFL Draft. He started 72 of 89 games the next seven seasons and was a member of the Patriots squad that faced Chicago in Super Bowl XX. He finished his career with 29.5 sacks. Hurd enters his ninth season as the club’s head strength and conditioning coach. A Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and a member of the National Strength and Conditioning Association, he joined the Chiefs in ‘98 after spending the previous three seasons as the assistant strength and conditioning coach for Jacksonville (’95-97). He began his coaching career as a graduate assistant strength coach in ‘84 at his alma mater of Fort Hays State. After leaving Fort Hays, Hurd served as the head strength coach for Delta State (’85-86), Western Michigan (’87-93) and Tulsa (’94), in addition to a stint as the assistant strength and conditioning coach at Clemson (’86-87) before joining the Jaguars in ‘95. Hurd was raised in Parker, Arizona and was a four-year letterman on the Fort Hays State baseball squad. Long begins his sixth season as the Chiefs assistant strength and conditioning coach. He joined Kansas City after a nine-year stay (’92-00) at Southern University where he served as that school’s offensive line coach and the school’s strength and conditioning coach. Long also served as a longtime consultant with the St. Louis Rams. He also enjoyed a coaching stint as an offensive line coach/strength and conditioning coach at Arkansas – Pine Bluff (’87-91) after beginning his coaching tenure working with the offensive and defensive lines at Alabama State (’81-86), where he also served as strength and conditioning coach. Matsko joins the Chiefs as the club’s offensive line coach after spending the previous seven seasons as the offensive line coach in St. Louis (’99-05). During his time with the Rams, he tutored seven-time Pro Bowl T Orlando Pace. Prior to joining the Rams he enjoyed stints as the offensive line coach for Arizona (’92-93), New Orleans (’94-96) and the N.Y. Giants (’97-98). The Mentor, Ohio native had collegiate coaching stops at Southern California (’87-91), Arizona (’86), Navy (’85), North Carolina (’78-84) and Miami (OH) in ‘77. The Kent State graduate started his coaching career at Kent State (’73) and Miami (’74-75) before serving as the head coach at Danbury HS in Lakeside-Marblehead, Ohio. Priefer was named Kansas City’s special teams coach after spending the last three seasons as the assistant special teams coach with the N.Y. Giants (2003-05). He originally entered the NFL coaching ranks as an assistant special teams coach with Jacksonville (2002). He began his coaching career at his alma mater of the Navel Academy (’94-96) before enjoying stops at Youngstown State (’97-98), Virginia Military Institute (’99) and Northern Illinois (2000-01). Priefer was a quarterback and wide receiver on the Naval Academy’s junior varsity and lightweight teams. In addition, he flew helicopters as a Naval officer and was stationed on USS America in the Persian Gulf after the Persian Gulf War. Wallis embarks on his 25th season as an NFL coach in 2006. A member of the Chiefs coaching staff since ‘89, Wallis’ 18-year tenure with Kansas City is the second-longest stint by an assistant coach in franchise history. Only Tom Pratt (21 years) owns more years of service with the club. Wallis also joins Pratt by holding the distinction of becoming the only other assistant coach in franchise history to serve with four different head coaches (Marty Schottenheimer, Gunther Cunningham, Dick Vermeil and Edwards). Wallis and Edwards were both members of Schottenheimer’s staff in Kansas City from ‘92-94. Prior to joining the Chiefs, Wallis spent seven seasons on Schottenheimer’s staff with the Cleveland Browns (’82-88).
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01-23-2006, 03:39 PM	#14
tk13 ... Join Date: Nov 2001 Casino cash: $-1697500	I wouldn't be so fast to jump on the Rams' O-line coach. I think that has a lot to do with the HC's philosophy. Martz didn't care about turnovers or protecting the QB. They were just fine under Vermeil... and Edwards puts a lot more emphasis on the O-line and running the ball than Martz did, and we still have Solari coaching over him, I'm sure our O-line will be just fine.
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