Michael Clay, who\u2019s been the Eagles\u2019 special teams coach since Nick Sirianni got here in 2021, had a virtual interview Thursday for the same position with the Buccaneers, the Bucs announced.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s somewhat surprising news because special teams has been decent in the five years Clay has been here and Sirianni has always spoken highly of Clay.<\/p>\n
This year was a mixed bag. The Eagles got great production out of punter Braden Mann, kicker Jake Elliott had a miserable season and the Eagles ranked 14th in punt return average and 30th in kick return average and 16th covering punts and 4th covering kicks.<\/p>\n
Clay, 34, played for Chip Kelly at Oregon and was in training camp with the Dolphins in 2013 as an undrafted rookie linebacker. Kelly hired him in 2014 as a defensive quality control coach and then promoted him to assistant special team coach under Dave Fipp in 2015.<\/p>\n
He spent 2016 through 2020 with the 49ers in both special teams and strength coach roles before rejoining the Eagles in 2021 as special teams coordinator.<\/p>\n
Thomas McGaughey, who spent 1996 on the Eagles\u2019 practice squad, was Bucs special teams coordinator the last two years under one-time Eagles defensive coordinator Todd Bowles. He was fired last week.<\/p>\n
The Eagles\u2019 assistant special teams coach this year was kicking specialist Tyler Brown, whose father Randy spent 2004 and 2005 on Andy Reid\u2019s staff with the Eagles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Clay, who\u2019s been the Eagles\u2019 special teams coach since Nick Sirianni got here in 2021, had a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2068],"tags":[25,1537,7,6,242,109,2476],"class_list":{"0":"post-680155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-eagles","9":"tag-eagles-news","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","14":"tag-philadelphiaeagles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115901140369899102","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}