Sad News: So Sad After Vikings Hire Marcus Dixon as Defensive Line Coach, He Was Confirmed……..

The Minnesota Vikings have named Marcus Dixon the team’s cautious line coach and included exterior linebacker coach to Partner Head Coach Mike Pettine’s title. Pettine, who has served as the Vikings collaborator head coach in each of the past two seasons (2022-23), too started coaching the exterior linebackers amid the 2023 season.

Dixon went through the past two seasons (2022-23) as the Denver Broncos protective line coach and brings six a long time of collegiate and proficient coaching involvement to Head Coach Kevin O’Connell’s staff. He entered the NFL coaching positions with the Los Angeles Rams in 2021 as partner cautious line coach, joining a staff with O’Connell, who was the hostile facilitator.

In his moment season with Denver in 2023, Dixon coached a cautious line that made a difference the Broncos record a league-leading 15 bungle recuperations, the foremost in establishment history since collecting 16 in 2007. The protective line too contributed to the Broncos constraining their adversaries to a 33.2-percent change rate on third downs, the second-lowest rate association wide in 2023, trailing as it were the Cleveland Browns (29.13 percent).

Dixon started his coaching career at his alma mater Hampton College (2017-19), where he was a four-year starter on the cautious line from 2004-07. Amid his residency with the Privateers, Dixon served as the cautious line coach, executive of player advancement, protective closes coach and selecting facilitator.

After entering the NFL as an undrafted free operator with the Dallas Cowpokes in 2008, Dixon played three seasons with the Modern York Planes from 2010-12. He showed up in 22 diversions, recording 21 handles (15 solo), 2.5 sacks, one pass defensed, one constrained bobble and one bungle recuperation. Whereas with the Planes, Dixon was colleagues with O’Connell, and Pettine was the protective facilitator for Unused York from 2009-12.

A local of Rome, Georgia, Dixon and his spouse, Tesa (TEE-sa), have three children, Rhylee, Madylin and Zoë Olyvia.

Pettine enters his third season with the Vikings as the collaborator head coach and his to begin with full season as exterior linebackers coach. He has brought more than 30 seasons of by and large coaching encounter to O’Connell’s staff, stemming within the tall school, collegiate and proficient positions.

This past season, Pettine made a difference the Vikings defense move forward from 31st in general in 2022 to 16th in 2023, counting posting top-eight rankings in both surging yards per play (fourth) and surging yards per amusement (eighth). The Vikings counted 43 sacks amid the 2023 season, with OLBs Danielle Seeker (16.5 sacks) and D.J. Wonnum (8.0) bookkeeping for 24.5, the fourth-most sacks between two cautious ends/outside linebackers in establishment history.

Pettine went through the primary seven seasons of his NFL coaching career with the Baltimore Ravens (2002-08), coaching the exterior linebackers in each of his last four seasons with the group (2005-08). He at that point served as the protective facilitator for the Unused York Planes (2009-12) and Buffalo Bills (2013), before becoming the head coach of the Cleveland Browns (2014-15). Pettine went through time with the Seattle Seahawks (2017), Green Cove Packers (2018-20) and Chicago Bears (2021) earlier to joining the Vikings coaching staff.