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Today in Patriots History
Charlie Weis
Charlie Weis
Happy 69th birthday to Charlie Weis
Born March 30, 1956 in Trenton, New Jersey
Patriot coach, 1992-1996; offensive coordinator, 2000-2004
Pats résumé: OC for three super bowl championship teams
Charles Joseph Weis was a Patriot position coach for four years and offensive coordinator for five seasons. He owns four Superbowl rings and compiled 36 years of football coaching experience.
After 11 years of high school and college coaching, Weis joined Bill Parcells’ New York Giant coaching staff in 1990 at the age of 34. Being hired by Tuna was a game changer, with Weis going from a high school football coach in New Jersey one year, to working in the NFL the next season. After three years with the Giants he rejoined Parcells in 1993 in New England. As the Pats tight end coach in 1994, Ben Coates was an All Pro with career highs of 96 receptions and 1,174 yards receiving. The next season as RB coach, rookie Curtis Martin rushed for 1,487 yards and 14 touchdowns. Then 1n 1996 as WR coach, rookie Terry Glenn had a career-high 90 receptions, and 1,132 yards receiving.
Weis followed Parcells out of town the next year to work for the Jets. Bill Belichick added him to his newly formed staff in New England in 2000, as offensive coordinator. As the OC Weis had a critical role in Tom Brady’s first NFL season as starting quarterback. That 2001 season of course culminated in the first of six Patriot Superbowl victories. His neophyte quarterback went on to become the best there ever was.
Not a one-hit wonder, Weis earned two more rings in Super Bowls 38 and 39. He left New England to become head coach of Notre Dame in 2005. Later he was the OC for the Kansas City Chiefs in 2010, OC for the Florida Gators in 2011, and head coach for the Kansas Jayhawks from 2012-14. Though he may be bored now that he is no longer working, his family should be set for generations - thanks in no small part part to buyouts from former employers.
Brady speaks to Weis' impact; Patriots quarterback will lose a mentor in Charlie Weis at the end of the season -- Patriots.com
"We'll see how it affects us," Brady said. "He's definitely the one coach who has been there since day one, aside from Coach Belichick, [but] I definitely spend more time with Charlie. He sets the tone for every meeting, every practice, and he has since the day I got here. I probably know that more than anybody else, so we'll see how that affects us when it comes up, but he's still around, so that's good."
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Weis, a 1978 Notre Dame graduate and owner of four Super Bowl-champion rings as products of a stellar 15-season career as a National Football League assistant coach, wasted no time putting his signature stamp on his alma mater’s program in his first two years as Irish head coach in 2005 and 2006. Weis and his Irish followed up a 9-3 record in ’05 and BCS appearance in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl with a 10-3 overall mark in ’06 and a second consecutive BCS invitation, this time to the Allstate Sugar Bowl. Those 19 combined wins (including eight straight in the middle of the ’06 regular season) qualified as most in a two-year period by the Irish since they collected 21 in 1992-93.
Charlie Weis, who helped groom Tom Brady, still in awe of ‘the best there ever was’
In the small hours of that Monday morning in Jacksonville 12 years ago, Tom Brady shared a beer with the man who helped him achieve the unthinkable. The quarterback that nobody wanted once upon a time just won back-to-back Super Bowls,…
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In the small hours of that Monday morning in Jacksonville 12 years ago, Tom Brady shared a beer with the man who helped him achieve the unthinkable. The quarterback that nobody wanted once upon a time just won back-to-back Super Bowls, including three of the last four, but he wondered about the future.
It was 4 o’clock in the morning. Sunrise was still three hours away. The euphoria of the Patriots’ 24-21 triumph over the Eagles in Super Bowl XXXIX was fresh, but Brady knew he was about to lose an invaluable piece to his success.
“What do I do now?” Brady said.
“You don’t need me anymore, big boy,” Charlie Weis answered. “You’ve outgrown me.”
Weis was off to Notre Dame, closing the most formidable chapter of Brady’s career. Before Brady morphed into a legend, he learned from Weis, a mentor, friend and offensive coordinator who helped shape this transcendent force.
Weis and Brady went 57-14 in five seasons together, including 9-0 in the playoffs. For all the people who helped Brady’s development, perhaps nobody played a more pivotal role than Weis, who has witnessed his star pupil become a giant over the past decade.
The Lexicon of Charlie Weis
What words best describe the former Notre Dame and Kansas football coach? Through the ups and downs of his career, there are many options.
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His old boss with the Giants, Bill Parcells, famously said that you are what your record says you are. Weis was 41-49 as head coach at Notre Dame and Kansas. But the numbers that generate fresh news stories and blog posts every year are the ones with dollar signs. Both schools fired Weis in the middle of multiyear contracts they still had to pay off; together, the dead money they owed Weis came to more than $24 million. Sitting at home, Weis made $2.5 million from Kansas and $2.1 million from Notre Dame last year, which made him in effect the eighth-highest-paid coach in college football. He points out, correctly, that active coaches get extra money from shoe deals and TV shows and such. But last year, in salary alone, he made more not coaching Kansas than the current coach at Kansas, and more not coaching Notre Dame than the current coach at Notre Dame.
How Alabama football is saving unemployed coach Charlie Weis
The two-time head coach and former Patriots offensive coordinator has been supporting his son
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Weis was fired by Notre Dame in 2009 and received $6.6 million in severance pay on top of his annual $2.05 million salary through 2015. At the time of his 2014 firing at Kansas, the school owed him just over $5.6 million, though that deal is set to expire in December 2016.
Charlie Weis announces departure from SiriusXM
Charlie Weis announced Monday that SiriusXM has abruptly ended his seven-year stint as a NFL Radio co-host.
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While Weis has been in the media for the past 7.5 years, his football expertise lies in his extensive coaching career. The former Notre Dame and Kansas head coach spent a good portion of his career as an NFL assistant (Giants, Patriots, Jets, and Chiefs).
Perhaps Weis’ most notable moment as a media member, at least as far as Awful Announcing is concerned, is when he revealed that he couldn’t “stomach” listening to Tony Romo during NFL on CBS broadcasts.
His son, who was once hired as a low level offensive analyst by Nick Saban at Alabama, is OC and QB coach at Ole Miss:
Charlie Weis Jr. - Football Coach - Ole Miss Athletics - Hotty Toddy
THE WEIS JR. FILE Hometown South Bend, Ind. Family Wife: Jennifer Children: Boston Maverick Education Bachelors, Psychology, Kansas (2015) Coaching Experienc...
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And if you misspell the last name, you may end up here:
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