Chris Hewitt for DC Anyone?: Current Secondary Coach of the Ravens
Christopher Horace Hewitt (born July 22, 1974) is a former National Football League defensive back who is currently the secondary coach of the Baltimore Ravens. Hewitt played professionally for three seasons with the New Orleans Saints. After eight seasons on the coaching staff of the Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team, Hewitt was the special teams coach for the Baltimore Ravens and was the assistant secondary coach for the 2014 season.
Hewitt was born in Kingston, Jamaica and grew up in Englewood, New Jersey, where he attended Dwight Morrow High School. He played for the Cincinnati Bearcats football team at the collegiate level. Hewitt's 31.50 kickoff return average in the 1993 season ranks second on the all-time rankings for the Cincinnati Bearcats, while his 742 career kickoff return yards rank ninth and his 28.54 career yards per kickoff returns place him first on the school's rankings. Hewitt played as a defensive back and on special teams for the New Orleans Saints in 1997, starting two games and finishing the season with 12 tackles and a fumble recovery as a defensive back. In 1998, he again started two games and had 9 tackles and two sacks. In his third and final season with the Saints, Hewitt was limited to one tackle and a sack. He joined the coaching staff at Rutgers under Greg Schiano, where he spent eight years, including as running backs coach and defensive backs coach. As part of the NFL's Minority Coaching Fellowship Program, Hewitt worked on the staffs of the Cleveland Browns and Philadelphia Eagles, as well as the Ravens, who hired him in February 2012 as the team's assistant special teams coach. Hewitt was brought into the Ravens by head coach John Harbaugh, who had been Hewitt's special teams coach when he was playing at the age of 17 as a freshman at the University of Cincinnati. Hewitt was part of the Ravens coaching staff for the Raven's victory at Super Bowl XLVII in 2013, which was played in New Orleans at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, where Hewitt played in the NFL with the Saints. A seventh-year coach for the Ravens, Hewitt has been the secondary coach for arguably the NFL’s top passing defense in the league for the last two years. Previously serving as their defensive backs coach, Hewitt has helped turn the Ravens secondary into a ball-hawking, stifling group. Running a multitude of coverage shells, Hewitt’s attacking, aggressive style with a secondary group lacking top-end talent has been able to keep offenses on their toes and support a blitz-heavy front. Likely running an aggressive, shifting defense, Hewitt would be a bold hire. Reid would certainly be counting on his ability to install a complex scheme and maximize personnel as a defensive coordinator. If that risk ended up paying off, there is high-end potential for a Hewitt-led stop unit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hewitt https://www.arrowheadpride.com/2019/...ve-coordinator |
I threw his name out on Monday. I think he'd be a great hire.
He'll be a DC soon whether it's us or someone else. |
Within 3 seasons we'll be looking at Spagnuolo and wondering why we didn't get this guy instead.
We're not going to hire him and hell, maybe he'll implode in spectacular fashion. But this is the kind of guy we should be targeting and not established mediocrity (at best) like Spagnuolo. |
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I researched him before the playoffs started and his journey up the ranks has been good. I have no doubt he will get a DC job soon, whether Andy would trust a young guy at this juncture remains to be seen.
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Many posters here have mentioned him and he would be exciting.
Also, probably wont happen for many reasons. We dont have time for an unproven DC to find his sea legs, we are win now. Andy has nothing to do with that side of the ball. Not any help for a brand new DC. Andy needs a guy who can be a HC for the D. |
He is very intriguing. The only issue I have with him is mainly concerning Reid's hands off approach to defense. Hewitt from what I am aware of has no play calling or game planning experience at any level. I see that as possible liability for a young new coordinator with Andy.
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I think he could be a good DC but Andy doesn't want to babysit a brand new DC and also the Ravens can deny interviewing him.
I think it is shitty that the league considers position coaches = coordinators. That is why there is so many retreads. |
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We have a 23 year old MVP at quarterback. Yes, I am aware that he'll soon cost money but the reason he'll cost that much money is because literally every team in the NFL would switch places with us and GLADLY pay him that money to have them running the show for them. This isn't a situation where we're running into the possibility of having to extend Mariota at twice his actual value because we're scared of having nothing at the position. We will be paying top of the market prices for the top of the market player at the most important position in pro sports. Okay - and? We can win any season for the next decade. And if breaking in a young new DC takes more time than we thought but yields dividends for the next 5 years, so be it. You're advocating putting duct tape on a hole in the hull so we can limp around for a bit and hope to get to port on time. I'm saying dry dock it, fix the damn hull outright and even if we can't make up enough time to save that delivery, we may have a half dozen more that we're better off for because of it. And I'm just completely unwilling to concede that some of the brightest young defensive minds in football can't come in here and 'find their sea legs' by the end of a 17 week regular season after having an entire off-season to get things kicked off. Your approach here is is just completely wrongheaded, IMO. |
I like Hewitt a lot. I seriously doubt:
1)The Ravens want to allow him and other members of their staff to go to what looks like an AFC powerhouse for the next decade 2)Reid and Veach want to be looking for a DC next year or the year after. |
Hiring a young guy and say he turns this crap D around. He will get a HC job in 2 years.
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With just a few steps forward we are in the Superbowl. If a brand new DC isnt able to do any better for a year or two, we may have a completely different team by then. I agree it seems short sighted but the only explanation is that they are looking at the short term fix. |
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Shit, Vic Fangio just got a job and he's ancient. When it comes to DCs, teams are less inclined to consider them for coaching gigs and when they do they don't seem to mind if they're older. If someone snipes our DC, it will be because we at least went to the Super Bowl and did so with a hell of a defense as part of the package. And frankly, if that happens with Spagnuolo, there's absolutely no reason to believe that some team won't view him in the same light they saw Mike Zimmer or Vic Fangio and hire him as a coach anyway. If "oh no, he might do well and we'd lose him" is the reason you don't want to hire someone one...maybe find a better reason. |
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This is how you win Playoff Games and Super Bowls... Not rehashing NFL trash because you know Chief fan and all... |
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Not that it would be a reason to hire Spags but I doubt he will ever get a chance to be a hc again. Usually if you suck twice at being hc that is it. |
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Near as I can tell, none of his failings over the last decade are actually his fault. So surely the league will see things the same way. |
This is the guy I want but I don’t see it happening. I’ll be shocked if it does.
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Not sure why he has to go the total opposite direction on defense and hire a dinosaur. |
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No one on D to do that. |
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you got me there :) |
He'd def. be my first choice if we went the first timer route and the more I read about him, yeah he should probably be the choice..
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Bob Sutton had 40 years of experience when the Chiefs hired him and how did that work out. Also if you bring in an up and coming guy to be DC and he leaves to become a HC in two years, you trust that he will build a quality defensive coaching staff (assuming Andy allows the new DC to have input on building his own defensive coaching staff), so that there are candidates to promote from within. |
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He was no 'HC of the Defense' when he was hired. He was a guy who Andy gave a shot who went about proving himself to be among the more innovative and effective DCs in the NFL. If he's looking for his next Jim Johnson, he's forgotten who his last Jim Johnson was before he hired him. |
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I think the NFL coaching situation would be a lot more diverse if they simply changed the rules about interviewing coaches for promotions. Rather than just Assistant or Head coach designations, position coach to coordinator should be considered a promotion and so you should not need permission to interview.
There's a ton of positional coaches that are non-white and teams would love to give them coordinator jobs. From there, HC gigs happen for those who are successful. Just saying. |
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I mean with both Hewitt AND MacDonald behind Martindale, surely the Ravens wouldn't outright deny permission to speak to either one of them. Now to be honest, I'm not sure MacDonald would bring us anything that Mike Smith couldn't (I really like Smith) but that'd be a pretty bad look if they just bury all their assistants from even interviewing. I'd absolutely request to interview them both and make them tell me no. Then lets hear the NFL talk about how they can do more to advance minority opportunity in the coaching ranks. Make. Them. Say. No. But Andy won't. Because he's getting himself locked in the same vicious cycle that ended his last tenure. Lord...I'm really not looking forward to the rumors in about 2 years that he's going to take "a more active role in personnel decisions" should our defense not make exponential improvements. |
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I just don't know man. Guys look terrible elsewhere, then go somewhere and are good. Martindale is an example. He was ass in Denver, then has this legit d in Baltimore. You being a MU fan can probably comment on the Colts DC whose name escapes me at MU. Wasn't he awful there? What the hell changes for these guys? |
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As for Smith - I actually think that right up until the point he shit all over everything I have ever wanted in life, Dee Ford showed remarkable development this year. And I think the absolute implosion among the ILBs also helps Smith given that his unit (the OLBs) didn't implode and in fact showed development. I also like what I heard from other player regarding his approach to the game; focus and intensity, technique. Basic shit but the kind of stuff you want to hear from your position coaches. The kind of things you hear from good teachers. And don't get me wrong - I wouldn't have made him DC. I don't think anyone that had a direct hand in this defense deserves a promotion. But I think you can say that he did a good job this year without also giving him the captain's chair. |
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They need someone to come in and focus on fundamentals and basic shit. Those three you said would be a good start. Focus, intensity and technique. ****ing Ford man. That was the most deflating thing I've ever sat thru. |
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Maybe the DC's just make them look more talented than they are, **** if I know. |
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If Spagnuolo is the hire, it is EXCLUSIVELY because of his past relationship with Andy. It damn sure isn't merit. Dude was in such high demand that he was unemployed in 2018. I wasn't originally of the "Andy needs a crony hire" school because again - I respect the hell out of the guy and feel like he learned a lot from watching the Eagles fall around his ears. But man, if he hires Steve !@#$ing Spagnuolo I don't think there's any other conclusion to reach. |
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Good OCs and DCs really are one in the same. And BB is the best at both and why he wins so much. He knows how to scheme not just defensively but I assure you he studies the defense of his oppenents just as much and then gives JM a group of plays to call from in certain down situations. Anyone who thinks JM is his own man is very very naive. The majority of if not all of BBs staff that leave for HC positions have failed IS very telling IMHO. |
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Because of trash coaches. |
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Hopefully we get him or Macdonald.
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Man oh man, I wish the news about Spagnuolo somehow was coupled with Hewitt coming here (Spagnuolo was Hewitt's first boss as a Defensive Assistant). But it seems like really, really wishful thinking.
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Really promote from within. Tell Berry he has a secondary choaching job if he retires from playing. Save his salary tell Houston restructure or walk that could save a bunch of money which we really need to sign FA Jones Ford Hill.
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