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Colts promote quarterbacks coach to offensive coordinator

He spent the previous 16 sea- Bobby Petrino to the Atlan-
sons in the Canadian Football ta Falcons in 2007. Gannon
League — the first seven as a joined the St. Louis Rams as
player, the last nine as a coach a college scout in 2009 and
and six of those as the of- worked for them as a pro
fensive coordinator with the scout in 2010 and 2011 be-
Montreal Alouettes or To- fore leaving for Tennessee.
ronto Argonauts. Brady was After a brief stop with the Ti-
part of Grey Cup champion- tans, he spent four seasons on
ship teams in 2009, 2010 and the Minnesota Vikings staff
2017. before he was hired by the
It’s been a busy couple of Colts in 2018.
weeks since the Colts were Patullo, a New Jersey native,
eliminated in the wild-card spent his first two seasons in
round of the playoffs. Indy as the receivers coach.
Longtime left tackle An- He’s also worked with the
thony Castonzo and starting Kansas City Chiefs, Buffalo
quarterback Philip Rivers an- Bills, Tennessee Titans, New
nounced they were retiring. York Jets since starting his
Then came the Sirianni an- coaching career as a graduate
nouncement. assistant for South Florida in
And things could get even 2003.
busier for Colts coach Frank
Reich this week.
NFL Network reported Si-
rianni plans to hire Colts de-
fensive backs coach Jonathan
(AP) — The Indianapo- third Black offensive coordi- wich. Those two teams will Gannon as his new defensive
lis Colts made it official nator, replacing Nick Sirian- meet in the Super Bowl on coordinator and Indy’s pass-
Monday: quarterbacks ni who took the Philadelphia Feb. 7. ing game specialist, Kevin
coach Marcus Brady has Eagles head coaching job last Brady had been the Colts Patullo, to serve in a similar
been promoted to offen- week. The other two Black quarterbacks coach each of capacity with the Eagles.
sive coordinator. offensive coordinators are the past two seasons after Gannon started his coaching
Kansas City’s Eric Bieniemy serving as Indy’s assistant career as a student assistant
He will become the NFL’s and Tampa Bay’s Byron Left- quarterbacks coach in 2018. at Louisville then followed