After one year as Ohio State senior analyst, Joe Philbin reportedly joining Las Vegas Raiders staff
COLUMBUS — Ohio State senior analyst Joe Philbin is returning to the NFL, this time as a senior offensive assistant for the Las Vegas Raiders, according to NFL Network and NFL.com insider Ian Rapoport.
Philbin will work under recently-promoted Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce.
In his lone season with the Buckeyes, Philbin assisted offensive line coach Justin Frye. The 62-year-old Philbin also offered a seasoned voice in the offensive meeting rooms.
Perhaps most notably, Philbin was Brian Hartline’s head coach from 2012-14 with the Miami Dolphins, the organization where the former Buckeyes wideout spent all but one year of his seven-season NFL career. Hartline reunited with Philbin ahead of last season, for which the standout Ohio State receivers coach was elevated to offensive coordinator. Hartline is now co-OC, and Chip Kelly will be the Buckeyes’ OC and quarterbacks coach for the 2024 season.
“Having Joe’s been great,” Hartline said last offseason. “I think everyone in the building can learn something from him. It’s really awesome … to see and be around Coach Philbin again in a different light, in a different way.”
Hartline added: “Former head coach, offensive coordinator, O-Line play, the wealth of knowledge when it comes to football. I mean, there’s a litany of things that he brings to the building. How approachable he is, how coachable to coaches he’s willing to be. There have been so many positives having Joe added to this staff.”
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Philbin linking up with Hartline and the rest of the Buckeyes’ staff for the 2023 season marked his first return to the collegiate ranks since he was the offensive line coach at Iowa from 1999-2002, a stretch that overlapped with the start of Kirk Ferentz’s tenure in Iowa City.
Philbin’s spent most of this century in the NFL. He won a Super Bowl during the 2010 season as the Green Bay Packers’ offensive coordinator, a role he held from 2007-11. Then he served as the Dolphins’ head coach from 2012-15. He also took over as the Packers’ interim head coach in 2018 when Mike McCarthy was fired. McCarthy eventually hired Philbin to be the Dallas Cowboys’ offensive line coach ahead of the 2020 season, a post Philbin occupied for three years.
Although Philbin’s reportedly departing Ohio State, the Buckeyes still have a pair of senior analysts on staff: Todd Fitch, who works extensively with the program’s quarterbacks, and Tony Johnson, a former Penn State wide receiver and the son of Ohio State defensive line coach Larry Johnson.
