Originally published on Silver & Black Report on Feb. 6, 2014
The Raiders officially announced the addition of four new coaches to their coaching staff on Thursday. The Raiders have hired Joe Woods as defensive backs coach, Marcus Robertson as assistant defensive backs coach, Chris Beniol as assistant special teams coach, and Vernon Stephens as assistant strength and conditioning coach. Woods joins the Raiders after spending the last eight years with the Minnesota Vikings, as I talked about earlier this week here. His full coaching history can be seen below. Years College/Pro Team Position Coached 1992 Muskingum College Assistant 1993 Eastern Michigan Graduate Assistant 1994 Northwestern State Inside Linebackers 1994-96 Grand Valley State Defensive Backs 1997 Kent State Defensive Backs 2001-03 Western Michigan Defensive Backs 2004-05 Tampa Bay Buccaneers Defensive Backs 2006-13 Minnesota Vikings Defensive Backs Robertson joins the Raiders having spent his last two seasons with the Detroit Lions. Like Woods, Robertson was ousted during a regime change with his former team, as I discussed here on Monday. Here is Robertson's coaching history, having worked into the defensive backs coaching position after being assistant secondary coach on two different teams. Years College/Pro Team Position Coached 2007-08 Tennessee Titans Assistant Secondary 2009-11 Tennessee Titans Secondary 2012 Detroit Lions Defensive Assistant/Secondary 2013 Detroit Lions Secondary Beniol joins the Raiders after spending the last four seasons with the Dallas Cowboys as their assistant special teams coach. Beniol, a former six-year NFL kicker, helped tutor Cowboys kicker Dan Bailey while he made 89/98 field goals since 2011. Bailey now has the second- and third-best single-season franchise marks for field goal percentage, 93.5 percent in 2012 and 93.3 percent in 2013. Bailey is also now second place in Cowboys history with his 89 field goals made and first on the all-time list with a 90.5 field goal percentage. The Raiders may be hoping that Beniol can have the same success with Sebastian Janikowski who had a really rough 2013 campaign, making just 21/30 field goal attempts, only 70 percent. Beniol's coaching history is as follows: Years College/Pro Team Position Coached 2010-13 Dallas Cowboys Assistant Special Teams Stephens spent the last six season with the San Diego Chargers as their assistant strength and conditioning coach. Before that, he worked with the University of Colorado after having interned with the Jacksonville Jaguars from 2002-2003. Stephens full coaching history is listed below. Years College/Pro Team Position Coached 1999-2002 North Florida Head Strength and Conditioning 2002-03 Jacksonville Jaguars Strength and Conditioning Intern 2003-06 Colorado Assistant Speed, Strength and Conditioning 2007-12 San Diego Chargers Assistant Strength and Conditioning
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