BOL Round Table

Pep has been instrumental in helping a few NFL QB's make improvments to their game and have quite impressive seasons. Here's the info from his coaches profile at Stanford:

"He was quarterbacks coach for the Chicago Bears from 2007-09, and in his final year Jay Cutler broke franchise records for completions (336) and passing attempts (555). He also finished second in team history with 3,666 yards passing and third with 27 TD passes. His 60.5 completion percentage was the fifth-best single-season mark in Bears annals.

In 2008 under Hamilton's guidance, Kyle Orton posted what was then the fifth-best completion percentage in Bears history (58.5, 272 of 465, minimum 300 attempts). He also ranked sixth in franchise annals in passing yards (2,972), tied for ninth in touchdown-to-interception ratio (1.5, 18 TDs, 12 INTs) and was 13th in passer rating (79.6). His 205 consecutive passes without an interception is the longest streak in franchise history. Orton did not throw an interception in nine of his 15 starts, fourth-best in the NFL that season.

A year earlier Orton, Rex Grossman and Brian Griese led a passing attack that finished with the third-most gross passing yards in team history (3,701).

Hamilton spent the 2006 season as the offensive assistant and quarterbacks coach of the San Francisco 49ers, where he helped Alex Smith become the first signal-caller in team history to take every snap from center over an entire campaign while completing 58.1 percent of his passes for 2,890 yards with 16 touchdowns, 16 interceptions and a 74.8 passer rating. It was a remarkable improvement for Smith, who threw only one touchdown pass the previous season as a rookie"

Tell him it is what it is and I'll send a box of Little Debbie's his way if he heeds my arm-chair QB advice.

Love it! Wish you were doing the hiring. Nobody utilizes the TE's better than Stanford. Power running with a blocking back, effective play action passing. Great choice.

I was just about to google "Stanford's offensive coordinator", but I should have known there would be several of you way ahead of me! I totally agree that he would be perfect for out offensive philosophy and it sounds like he's great with QBs too. I don't know if he'd be interested in leaving the west coast, but I would definitely try to gauge his interest.

This reads a lot like the articles about McElwain when we hired him.

^^^This^^^

Would be a mutually beneficial hire for both parties.

I wonder what he's being paid by Stanford? Not that money is the only factor in getting him, but just curious if we hired him how much of a bump in pay he would receive? That plus being groomed by Saban may be enough to pull him away. Where he's from originally and where he went to school may be a factor too.