New Orleans – Vik Fangio’s coaching career began in the 1970s as a high school assistant in Pennsylvania and took him to various stages across the country as he grew in one of the most new defensive coaches in the game.
Now 66, Fangio is in Super Bowl in New Orleans, where he started his NFL coaching career, he was supporting as a defensive coordinator of the Philadelphia Eagles team and to fill one of the few remaining intervals in a stellar career With a chance.
“I grew up a Philadelphia game,” said Fangio. “Philos, Eagles, Sixers, started my supporter career in Philadelphia with USFL. And now I will probably end it one of these years. It is like coming completely. … I am fit there. ,
Former Chicago Beers Defense Coordinator (2015-18) included eight new starters in an eagles defense, ranked near the bottom of NFL in 2023 and turned it to one of the league’s best. Eagles led NFL in advanced efficiency metrics and allowed the second first point in the league.
He is one of the main reasons that Eagles is in Super Bowl, leading to the success that he could not achieve in a failed head coaching stent in Denver and a chance to win his first super bowl in 38 NFL seasons.
“I still like to do it really. I think I am still half -decent on it, ”he said. “This is very good. If you rotate for a long time, the tide will change.”
Fangio started his NFL career in coaching in 1986, one of the top linebacking groups for New Orleans Saints’ Dom Petrol “teams and got his first chance as a defensive coordinator for expansion Carolina Panthers in 1995.
He spent almost all his time in NFL, to be a defensive coordinator in Stanford with a one -year break in 2010, and his defensive style that dissolves coverage and try to keep two safari as possible to limit large plays as possible She does The entire league was copied.
His only previous visit to the Super Bowl came with San Francisco 49ers in the 2012 season, losing to Baltimor Revenne at Superdome.
“When you talk about coaches, sometimes you like,” he is a good coach for years. ” He is a very good coach for decades, which is impressive, ”said Eagles coach Nick Sirianni.
“He was an incredible career and did a lot of good things and is just so grate that he is on the employees. He has the standard of how it should see and keeps people for that standard. He is not afraid to tell you what he thinks if you do not meet the standard and praise you if you meet the standards. ,
Fangio is integral for defensive reconstruction in Philadelphia. He looked enough to divert him in free agent Zack Baun to divert him with a special team player, who for the Eagles AP Defense Player of the Year for an all-Prop for an all-Prop. Limited time was found on defense in form.
He also helped to include two miscreants in secondary in Quinene Mitchell and Cooper Dezen, who played a big role in turnarounds.
“He is like a father,” Michel said. “He is going to make you accountable. He is serious, but he has also got jokes. He is also a funny. ,
Fangio will face their most difficult testing on Sunday when Eagles will face the heads of Patrick Mahums and Cannes City.
While a lot has been made from the 0-8 records of Fangio against Mahms as the head coach of Broncos and the Defense Coordinator of Miami Dolphin, he never made a talented defense when he faced Mahms.
The record has reduced what Fangio did on defense as their teams scored just 11.9 points per game in those games. Fangio’s rescue allowed only 21.6 points per game for the crime of Canasus City – the heads got six additional touchdowns on defense and special teams – and Mahoomes threw only 10 TD passes in eight matches and a low passer -by rating (95.9) And tried per attempt per attempt. (7.3) Average compared to your career.
Mahoomes said, “Every time I have played coach Fangio, there are different changes and different things that she has been thrown at us,” said Mahums. “This is what makes him so great. He will not do what he did for the last time. ,
Mahms called the Games a “chess match” against Fangio, and Fangio emphasized the importance of changing the plans due to the “aristocratic” ability of Mahums, to understand what a defense before and after what both of them are doing. Is.
“There is no secret. This is his seventh year as a starter. Nobody found the formula to defeat him, “Fangio said. He said, “He won the chess match against me, the final score. We will see if there is something we can come with.