Going back to Joe Brady offense: LSU announces hires of offensive coordinator and passing game coordinator
LSU settled on an NFL veteran to be its next offensive coordinator, and a coach with LSU experience to be the passing game coordinator, the program announced on Wednesday.
Jake Peetz, who coach Ed Orgeron on a recent appearance on ESPN Baton Rouge said Joe Brady, the Tigers’ former passing game coordinator recommended for the job, comes to LSU as the new offensive coordinator from the Carolina Panthers. His colleague, DJ Mangas, also with the Panthers this past season, will be the passing game coordinator.
“Both Jake and DJ come highly recommended from one of the premier and innovative offensive coaches in the game in Joe Brady,” Orgeron said in a statement from the school. “Jake brings 10 years of NFL experience with him to our staff. He spent a season coaching alongside and learning from Joe (Brady) so we couldn’t be more excited about Jake joining our staff. His knowledge of football combined with the players we have on our roster, will make for a dynamic offense for LSU in 2021.
Orgeron told WNXX-FM’s “Off the Bench” on Tuesday that Derek Ponamsky, LSU’s special assistant to Orgeron, talked with Brady during the search, hoping to find candidates who can replicate the schemes Brady and former offensive coordinator Steve Ensminger ran when the Tigers won the national championship in 2019.
Peetz has 10 years of NFL experience as he’s worked with the Jacksonville Jaguars (2008-12), Washington Redskins (2014) and Oakland Raiders (2015-17). Mangas was an offensive analyst for LSU during its national championship season in 2019. Mangas has spent the past two seasons working alongside Brady at both LSU and Carolina.
Peetz, 37, is a Nebraska native, a former cornerback for the Cornhuskers, who has spent seven seasons as an assistant in the NFL, and four in college, most of which were spent as a quarterbacks coach. Peetz twice was an offensive analyst at Alabama in 2013 and 2018.
He also Peetz began his coaching career with two years on the collegiate level at Santa Barbara City College (2006) and UCLA (2007).
Peetz played defensive back at Nebraska from 2003-05 prior to entering the coaching ranks.
Mangas, a former quarterback and wide receiver at William & Mary, served as running backs coach at his alma mater from 2014-16 before being elevated to offensive coordinator for two years from 2017-18. Other stops for Mangas include Hampton-Sydney College in 2012 and Georgetown University in 2013.
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Jake Peetz joins the staff as our new offensive coordinator! #GeauxTigers pic.twitter.com/02QwL9RLIR
— LSU Football (@LSUfootball) January 6, 2021
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DJ Mangas returns to Baton Rouge as the Tigers’ passing game coordinator! #GeauxTigers pic.twitter.com/cUl5x2uEyH
— LSU Football (@LSUfootball) January 6, 2021
Now we gotta land Freeman. ND already poaching..
This sounds like the last Star Wars episode where they brought back a bunch of the old characters just for the fans sake like Lando, Palpatine ect.
In all seriouslyness-ness, LSU’s offense will be better with these guys than Scott freakin Linehan. That was just a very bad and lazy hire, as was Pelini on the D-side. LSU will be much more LSU-like next season.
This made me laugh. Thanks for that. Needed it
Why does everyone make such a bid deal out of the Linehan hire. He was not the OC he was the passing game coordinator. Do you know any other team’s passing game coordinator?
Well, I guess Thomas Wolfe was wrong . . . “You CAN go home again”!
So let me see if I got this little tidbit morsel right Keith…Joe Brady recommended them equals LSSHOE going back to the Joe Brady offense?
Well that explains it, we’re fff’d…no wonder Kirby is underachieving in turning the UGA program into Nick Saban’s Bama program, I don’t recall Saban recommending him…
here’s your duh huh clickbait moment…
You were fff’d anyway. LSU blistered Georgia the year before they hired Brady.
Yes, but now I know why…Saban didn’t recommend Kirby in 2016, it’s all clear as mud now…
I’m not very excited about Peetz but hopefully he surprises me. I’m glad Mangas is back. Burrow was very high on him.
I’m not super excited about the hire either. Just seems like we don’t really have any better options.
Do you guys think that Coach O may be reaching a little bit by trying to get coaches that have coached with Brady? Brady was a great hire, but did not stick around to show if he was only that good with a team full of experienced talent, or if he could coach players to excellence consistently.
Yeah, but just a bit. It’s going to be a very similar scheme, and it was working with Brennan until he got hurt.
Agree. Gilbert may be missing out after all.
Well I for one hopes he will be missing out in Athens! (:
But since no TP destination announcement I fear he ends up at Bama or with his buddy Harrison at UT…
Well I hate to see the rich get richer…
Most people do not realize this, but LSU ranked about 15th in the country in passing offense this season. Their problem was like you said, Brennan getting hurt and then no experience behind him.
Looks like Coach zee-rO is living in the past. Hell even if he got Brady to come back he still doesn’t have Burrow.
Brennan set an LSU record for yards passing in his first three starts.
You know…I can’t remember the last time UGA won a meaningful game…against LSU or anyone else.
Kirby Not So Smart can’t touch O
If we had lost all the meaningless games in 17, no CFP opportunity…if we had lost all the meaningless games in 18/19, no SECCG opportunity so what exactly does meaningful game mean? They’re all meaningful until they’re not…just sayin
UGA has no room to throw shade at LSU. It’s perplexing how Kirby can con so many talented players into believing they can go undefeated at any point. I feel so bad for all those kids.
Remember Tiger Nation everybody breathing was wondering at the time who in the HELL is this Joe Brady? Coach O plucked him from the New Orleans Saints breaking down film and taking care of whatever the Coaches and QB’s needed. Now OC Jake Peetz viewed as a young up and coming innovative offensive mind and like Brady, Peetz is taking over an offense with some experience. Look nobody saw 2019 Joe Burrow, CEH, Ja’Marr Chase or Justin Jefferson coming so who’s to say with the talent we have on offense that we can’t compete for the chip in 2021 we just have to nail down the defensive hire I’m not to worried about offense.
Coach “O” is making the right moves to get LSU back in the mix.
First and foremost, I like Ed Orgeron. But do you sometimes get the impression that maybe he’s not so much a HC but an assistant or co-ordinator who knows enough other coaches to throw the spaghetti at the wall and see if it sticks? I just get the impression he’s winging it at a high level and his connections he’s built over the years, his reputation, is going to be enough in some years to do really well and in others will result in going back to the drawing board. And apologies to LSU fans here, not intending to sh!t on you.
I wouldn’t say Ed O is “winging it” and his resume speaks otherwise as well. But I know the feeling you’re talking about, especially when coupled with his throaty cajun accent. But make no mistake, he’s smart and wily, and while it might take him a minute – he usually finds a way. I think the end of this year bears that out. I wouldn’t trade Ed, at least not yet…
He’s had a solid career, I agree. Was just throwing out there what my gut is questioning. If he’s winning, doesn’t matter how it happening.
Well it does matter how you win. Jusk ask the NCAA.
Guinny I don’t think you’re too far off with that assessment.
Well not many fans of ours believe Coach O would hold much of his own if there was a one v. one coach off against the big names.
We’re cognizant of O’s strengths and weaknesses.
This is what he does bring to the table and has proven to be a pretty successful model:
1. Allowing staff more control to perform the job they were hired to do.
2. Recruit at a very high level.
3. Bring the best out of the players he has.
4. Recognize when there needs to be a change and make it instead of waiting to see if things improve.
It won him a national championship regardless of how much credit you give Brady. O stuck his neck out on the line to hire a young guy because he believed in him. We view him as a a CEO of the football team and should get credit where credit is due.
Nice take pfarmer. I especially appreciate your #4 about Ed O, he either fishes or cuts bait. I agree that he may not win a head-2-head “coach-off” against everyone out there, and I also agree that he has really figured out how to get out of his own way and let the people he brought in do their jobs (or NOT do their job as was the case with Bo P.). I have confidence in Ed O until he shows that he can’t handle the job anymore.
Definitely his strength.
Pretty much on the money.