The butterfly effect of Josh McDaniels backing out of the Indianapolis Colts head job to stay with the Patriots has just hit North Carolina.
As we know, the Colts hired Eagles offensive coordinator Frank Reich after McDaniels left them at the altar. The Eagles then promoted wide receivers coach Mike Groh to offensive coordinator, and on Monday reportedly hired UNC’s Gunter Brewer to fill the role Groh vacated. Inside Carolina first reported the move, which has since been confirmed by a number of Philadelphia outlets.
Brewer has spent more than 30 years in coaching, all of them at the college level (with a 1-season detour as an offensive coordinator in France). His claim to fame at the college level was coaching three Biletnikoff finalists in Marshall’s Randy Moss and Oklahoma State’s Dez Bryant and Justin Blackmon. Moss won the honor in 1997, while Blackmon went back-to-back in 2010-11.
Brewer pre-dated the Larry Fedora era in Chapel Hill, serving as wide receivers coach in 2000-04 and then returning in 2012.
