Everyone knows the NFL is a copy cat league, with teams always looking for the next great offensive mind to run the show for them. You only have to look at this off-season for the most recent examples, in San Francisco they hired former NFL quarterback and Stanford Head Coach, Jim Harbaugh, to take over or in Dallas where Jason Garrett, another former NFL quarterback, was given the head coaching job on a full time basis. In fact if you look around the league you will find countless cases of coaches whose physical talents paled in comparison to their football IQs. Coaches such as Sean Payton, Mike Shanahan, Mike Holmgren, Gary Kubiak, Chan Gailey, and Norv Turner where all college quarterbacks who paid their dues in the coaching ranks and now run their own teams and in the case of Holmgren control the whole franchise.
Who will be the next great offensive mind that NFL teams will be lining up to employ in the next five to seven years? If I were a betting man I would take Ken Dorsey in a heartbeat. Ken was a maestro at the University of Miami where he led arguably the most talented offensive roster in the past 15 years. At Miami, Dorsey was 38-2 and was known as a coach on the field commanding the respect from such future NFL superstars like Willis McGahee, Kellen Winslow II, Jeremy Shockey, Clinton Portis, Andre Johnson and Frank Gore. Ken was able to run that offense with precision of a surgeon even though he lacked the physical skills to match his understanding of the game plan. Ken, who played for the 49’ers and Browns in the NFL and Toronto in the CFL, is officially retired and working as an offensive coordinator at Riverview High in Florida and as quarterbacks coach at IMG Madden Football Academy in Florida. He is just waiting for the right opportunity to open up to make that next step in his career.
It is only a matter of time until Ken (who is only 30) moves up the coaching ranks maybe at the University of North Carolina, with his former head coach, Butch Davis, or on the staff of another former head coach, Larry Coker, at the University of Texas at San Antonio, regardless where he lands one thing is for sure that once he starts working in college a meteoric rise is likely to follow. With a little seasoning in the college coaching ranks, Dorsey would likely have the resume to catch the eye of some top NFL franchises such as the New England Patriots, Pittsburgh Steelers, or Baltimore Ravens . An ideal situation might be developing in New England with Ryan Mallett, as it will be a few years before Mallett is ready to push for playing time, but when he is ready having a guy like Ken on staff to mentor the young quarterback makes a ton of sense to me. If Ken Dorsey was a stock I would say it’s a heavy buy for any team’s portfolio as all signs point to one of the next great offensive mind.
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