Reaching for the Joe Brady coaching tree? LSU reportedly looking at NFL to fill out staff
LSU had a historical season two years ago, and the Tigers may be looking to bring some of that coaching personnel back to Baton Rouge after one member of the staff got a taste of the NFL.
That’s the reporting from Pete Thamel of Yahoo, who has reported that LSU is meeting this week with Panthers QB coach Jake Peetz and offensive assistant DJ Mangas. Peetz is targeted as the OC and Mangas as the pass game coordinator. Both worked under Joe Brady in Carolina, and Mangas was an LSU analyst during 2019 title season.
The moves would fill out the offensive staff after coach Ed Orgeron is trying to replace Steve Ensminger, the offensive coordinator, who retired, and Scott Linehan, who has parted ways with the Tigers.
Peetz was named Carolina’s quarterbacks coach under new head coach Matt Rhule in January 2020, according to his Carolina bio. He spent the 2019 season with the Panthers as running backs coach. Peetz has 10 years of NFL experience, including with the Jacksonville Jaguars (2008-12), Washington Redskins (2014) and Oakland Raiders (2015-17).
Before he was with LSU, Mangas spent two years as the second-youngest offensive coordinator in Division I football at William & Mary College in 2017 and 2018. Before William & Mary, Mangas had a pair of one-year stints at Georgetown and Hampden-Sydney College. He began his coaching career as a student assistant at William & Mary immediately following his playing career.
Peetz is not a very exciting name. He hasn’t had much of a career and has never been an OC or called plays. He has twice been an analyst at Alabama. He seems like a reach.
Joe Brady didn’t have much of a career before he came here. Young and inexperienced isn’t always bad, just like old and experienced isn’t always good.
He is risky at best. No track record of success at all. LSU isn’t the place for OJT, especially in such a critical year.
There is no such thing as not risky in this situation.
There is certainly something called less risky. A guy that has called plays before should be a prerequisite.
JB was not a primary plat caller…Peetz would be….and has NO experience at it.
Let us all just keep this one salient fact in mind. Coach Whiteboots never wanted Joe Brady to begin with. The same way Alleva had to cram Aranda down Yawyaw’s throat, Enzminguh had to push Brady on him.
Dacoacheaux doesn’t have it in the cranium to make good personnel decisions. He needs others to do his thinking for him and word on the street is Scott Woodward might be setting him up to fail. Under Whiteboots, the decline is inevitable and Woodward wants it over with toots sweet so he can find himself a real football coach.
Tick tock people.
You’re just another idiot troll. Keep up the good work.
You have NO idea what you are talking about.
Better check your aluminum foil seems to have a hole in it
I agree completely. This is really confusing me. I would think that with O being so hands-off in the offense, he would want more experience in his OC.
Where Joe Lombardi at?
Is it just me, or does it start to get on your nerves when every SDS report article starts with a question.
They ask questions because they don’t have a clue.
It’s usually a crap shoot. We’ll find out next season.
Peetz’s resume’ has more moves than a ping pong ball in China. A little stick-to-it-ness might help his stability and offer he might stay more than a year or two. And on the defensive coordinator front, several experienced online sources say Miss. State’s young DC at age 34 or 36 will soon be picked up by Florida or LSU as one of the best young ones for that. Coach O needs to do his homework as much as vett primarily from friendships if he wants to keep having success.