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Jim Bates, the Denver Broncos embattled assistant head coach/defense, is leaving the team after one season.
Faced with being reassigned within the coaching staff, Bates has decided to leave the team.
“I’m very thankful for the opportunity and very saddened that things did not work out,” said Bates, a former University of Tennessee player and assistant coach and a former Sevier County High School head coach. “I had the opportunity to stay, Mike has been very fair with me, and the final decision, for the Broncos and for me, was to step aside.”
Bob Slowik, who served as defensive coordinator/defensive backs coach last season, now will oversee the entire defense. Bates’ son, Jeremy, is in his second season on the Broncos’ coaching staff.
The 61-year-old Bates had success with his system with the Green Bay Packers and Miami Dolphins, but the Broncos were unable to master it.
Bates, who replaced Larry Coyer in the offseason, comes after a season in which Denver went 7-9 and the defense fell from No. 15 in the NFL in yards allowed to 19th and ranked 28th in scoring allowance per game.
Bates said he was “very saddened that things did not work out.”
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Posted by tngeoff on January 9, 2008 at 6:34 a.m. (Suggest removal)
C'mon back to Knoxville and be a part of this new direction!
Posted by diehardvol on January 9, 2008 at 11:11 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Heck yeah-we would create a position just for this guy- one of the best D-Coordinators in the NFL despite this season in Denver where he had no D-Line.
Posted by tngeoff on January 9, 2008 at 11:26 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Jim Bates:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bates_(American_football_coach)
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