New coach Mike McCarthy’s Dallas Cowboys staff is ethnically diverse and familiar
With four former head coaches and a former defensive coordinator already on board, experience is clearly one of the hallmarks of the new staff being assembled by Dallas Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy.
But it’s also one that is coming to be known for its familiarity with McCarthy as well as its diversity, as highlighted by the recent hire of Rob Davis as assistant head coach.
Davis played 11 seasons of his 12-year NFL career as a long snapper with the Green Bay Packers, including the final two under McCarthy. He then worked as the director of player development in football operations for 10 seasons starting in 2008 before leaving to go into private business. He spent the last two seasons as a volunteer assistant at St. Norbert College.
Davis has never been hired as a coach but he is now joining the Cowboys’ staff under McCarthy.
He is one of 11 African-American coaches on staff, joining running backs coach Skip Peete, tight ends coach Lunda Wells, receivers coach Adam Henry, assistant defensive line coach Leon Lett, secondary coach Maurice Lunquist, senior defensive assistant George Edwards, assistant secondary coach Al Harris, assistant special teams coach Matt Daniels, head strength and conditioning coach Markus Paul and assistant strength coach Kendall Smith.
Davis is also the seventh coach with personal ties to McCarthy. Offensive line coach Joe Philbin, linebackers coach Scott McCurley, assistant offensive line coach Jeff Blasko, and Harris worked with him in Green Bay. Offensive assistant Scott Tolzien was a backup quarterback for the Packers.
Defensive coordinator Mike Nolan hired McCarthy as offensive coordinator when he was named head coach of the San Francisco 49ers in 2005.
This story was originally published January 26, 2020 at 5:40 PM.
