Bears add Kevin Gilbride Jr. to coaching staff

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Bears add Kevin Gilbride Jr. to coaching staff Jan 13, 2018 11:21:37 GMT -6 riczaj01 likes this

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Bears add Kevin Gilbride Jr. to coaching staff
Posted by Michael David Smith on January 13, 2018, 12:17 PM EST

After eight seasons with the Giants, Kevin Gilbride Jr. is heading to Chicago.

Gilbride has been added to new Bears head coach Matt Nagy’s staff as the team’s tight ends coach.

The son of the former Chargers head coach, the younger Gilbride took a job on the Giants’ staff when his father was the offensive coordinator and has remained on the staff through the 2017 season. For the last four years, Gilbride Jr. was the tight ends coach.

Gilbride played both football and baseball at the University of Hawaii and has also coached at Syracuse, Georgetown and Temple.

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Bears add Kevin Gilbride Jr. to coaching staff Jan 13, 2018 12:56:32 GMT -6 riczaj01 and jusnixx like this

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Kevin M. Gilbride is in his fourth season as the Giants’ tight ends coach and his eighth as a member of the team’s coaching staff.

Gilbride has demonstrated an ability to develop players who were selected late in the NFL Draft, or signed as undrafted free agents. In 2016, Will Tye, a second-year undrafted pro from Stony Brook, emerged as the Giants’ most consistent tight end. He played in all 16 games with 11 starts, including each of the last 10 games, and finished third on the team with 48 receptions, which gained 395 yards, and included a nine-yard touchdown catch vs. Chicago on Nov. 20. It was the third season in a row an undrafted player led the tight ends in receptions.

Tye’s 51-yard reception in the NFC Wild Card in Green Bay was the longest ever by a Giants tight end in a postseason game. The previous long was a 46-yarder by Kevin Boss in Super Bowl XLII on Feb. 3, 2008.

Rookie Jerell Adams, a sixth-round draft choice in 2016, played in 13 games and caught 16 passes for 122 yards, including a 10-yard touchdown against the Bengals on Nov 21. He was the third Giants rookie to catch a touchdown pass, joining wide receivers Sterling Shepard and Roger Lewis, Jr. The Giants and Tennessee Titans were only team to have three rookies catch touchdown passes in 2016.

In 2015, Tye began the season on the practice squad. He joined the roster on Oct. 3, and finished fourth on the team with 42 catches for 464 yards, and three touchdowns. Tye led all NFL rookie tight ends in catches and receiving yards, and was tied for the lead in touchdown receptions.

The previous season, Gilbride helped turn a largely anonymous group of tight ends into a productive unit. Larry Donnell finished third on the team with 63 receptions and 623 yards and second with 6 touchdown catches. He entered the season with three receptions and no scores.

On Sept. 25, 2014 at Washington, Donnell caught 7 passes for 54 yards, including touchdown receptions of five, six, and six yards, the latter two in the second quarter. Donnell was the first Giants tight end with 3 touchdown receptions in a game since Dec. 16, 1962, when Joe Walton caught scoring passes of 10, 20 and eight yards from Y.A. Tittle in 41-31 victory over the Dallas Cowboys.

In 2013, Gilbride completed a two-year stint as the Giants’ wide receivers coach.

That year, Victor Cruz continued to be one of the NFL’s most productive receivers, catching 73 passes for 998 yards and 4 touchdowns, despite missing the final two games with a knee injury. In the season opener in Dallas on Sept. 8, Cruz (118 yards), Hakeem Nicks (114) and Rueben Randle (101) each had at least 100 receiving yards, the first time in franchise history that three different players exceeded the century mark in the same game. Jerrel Jernigan came on at the end of the season and finished with 29 receptions for 329 yards and two touchdowns and two rushing attempts for 57 yards, including a 49-yard score.

In Gilbride’s first year coaching the receivers in 2012, Cruz led the Giants with 86 receptions for 1,092 yards and 10 touchdowns and became just the second Giants wideout since 1968 to play in the Pro Bowl. Cruz’s 86 catches placed him seventh in the NFC and 12th in the NFL and his 1,092 yards were 10th in the conference and 15th in the league. He was one of 10 NFL players with at least 10 touchdown catches.

In 2011, Gilbride held the title of offensive assistant. He joined the coaching staff in 2010 as the team’s offensive quality control coach.

Gilbride is the son of former Giants offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride, who retired after the 2013 season. Prior to joining the Giants, he spent three seasons as the wide receivers coach at Temple University. In 2009, Gilbride was a member of the Temple coaching staff that led the Owls to a 9-4 record - their first winning record since 1990 - and their first bowl game since 1979, the EagleBank Bowl in Washington.

The previous season, Gilbride coached Bruce Francis, who earned the Owls’ offensive most valuable player award. Francis, who was an All-MAC selection, became Temple’s Division I-A career leader in receiving touchdowns (23). The Owls’ leading receiver with 687 yards on 45 catches for a Division I-A school record 13 touchdowns, Francis finished his collegiate career with a reception in a school record 38 consecutive games.

Before his stint at Temple, Gilbride coached the slot receivers and tight ends at Georgetown University in 2006. He also headed the kickoff coverage unit and assisted on punt, kickoff return and punt block. He recruited in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Florida and Delaware for the Hoyas.

Gilbride was an offensive graduate assistant coach at Syracuse University for two seasons (2004-05), working closely with the tight ends in 2005. The Orange captured a share of the Big East title in 2004 and earned a berth in the Champs Sports Bowl. Gilbride first joined the SU staff as a graduate assistant for video in 2003 before then head coach Paul Pasqualoni moved him into a coaching role.

Gilbride, 37, graduated from the University of Hawaii in 2003 with a bachelor’s degree in speech communications. He was a backup quarterback and played on special teams for the Warriors in 2000 after sitting out the 1999 season following his transfer from Brigham Young. He also earned four letters as a baseball player at Hawaii, playing outfield, first base and designated hitter. As a senior, he batted .308, had a .413 on base percentage and did not commit an error.

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GrizzlyBear Hall of Famer United We Stand, Divided We Fall. Posts: 5,717 Likes: 5,793	Bears add Kevin Gilbride Jr. to coaching staff Jan 13, 2018 13:22:32 GMT -6 AlexM likes this Post by GrizzlyBear on Jan 13, 2018 13:22:32 GMT -6 Jan 13, 2018 12:07:26 GMT -6 @soulman said: Well, his dad is the guy Buddy Ryan once punched out so that's an interesting story line for the media. Good ol Buddy. haha Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top

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Jan 13, 2018 13:22:32 GMT -6 GrizzlyBear said:

Jan 13, 2018 12:07:26 GMT -6 @soulman said:

Well, his dad is the guy Buddy Ryan once punched out so that's an interesting story line for the media.

Good ol Buddy. haha

Guess Buddy figures the QB should have taken a knee. LOL

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Jan 13, 2018 13:22:32 GMT -6 GrizzlyBear said:

Jan 13, 2018 12:07:26 GMT -6 @soulman said:

Well, his dad is the guy Buddy Ryan once punched out so that's an interesting story line for the media.

Good ol Buddy. haha

We need to bring Rex Ryan in for Vic's staff and see if Buddy's kid will punch Kevins kid. We should keep this up.

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JABF Administrator Posts: 18,328 Likes: 19,503	Bears add Kevin Gilbride Jr. to coaching staff Jan 13, 2018 15:39:30 GMT -6 Post by JABF on Jan 13, 2018 15:39:30 GMT -6 Kevin was raised around NFL football for sure. Kevin's dad was the Offensive Coordinator winning 2 Super Bowls. Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
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