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Brian Schottenheimer to coach QBs with Indianapolis Colts

By John Buhler

Oct 10, 2015; Knoxville, TN, USA; Georgia Bulldogs quarterback Greyson Lambert (11) gets instruction from Bulldogs offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer prior to the game against the Tennessee Volunteers at Neyland Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jim Brown-USA TODAY Sports
Oct 10, 2015; Knoxville, TN, USA; Georgia Bulldogs quarterback Greyson Lambert (11) gets instruction from Bulldogs offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer prior to the game against the Tennessee Volunteers at Neyland Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jim Brown-USA TODAY Sports /
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The Brian Schottenheimer in Athens lasted a total of one season Between the Hedges, as the former UGA offensive coordinator joins the Indianapolis Colts.

As widely expected, former Georgia Bulldogs offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer will return to an offensive staff in the National Football League, as he will become the quarterbacks coach for the AFC’s Indianapolis Colts.

Schottenheimer will replace former Indianapolis Colts quarterbacks coach Rob Chudzinski, who had his interim offensive coordinator tag removed only a few days ago after replacing former Indianapolis Colts offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton mid-season.

Brian Schottenheimer tried his hand in coaching at the collegiate level and while he may have enjoyed working with younger players, he is going back to the NFL. He is the son of former legendary NFL head coach Marty Schottenheimer and the younger Schottenheimer was the offensive coordinator for New York Jets and the then St. Louis Rams before joining Mark Richt’s staff in 2015.

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He replaced former UGA offensive coordinator Mike Bobo who left Athens after the 2014 season to become the head coach of the Mountain West’s Colorado State Rams. New Georgia head coach Kirby Smart elected to hire former Pittsburgh Panthers offensive coordinator Jim Chaney to the same role with the 2016 UGA staff.

Schottenheimer will again get to work with another phenomenal quarterback, this time in Colts starter Andrew Luck. Brian Schottenheimer has worked Brett Favre, Philip Rivers, Sam Bradford, and Mark Sanchez among other in quarterback rooms.

His new challenge is to keep Luck from hurting himself trying to fight for yards in the running game. Indianapolis failed to reach the AFC Playoffs in 2015 with an 8-8 record, due in large part to Luck missing half of the season with a lacerated kidney.

The Georgia Bulldogs are probably not going to miss Brian Schottenheimer as their offensive coordinator, as the UGA offense largely struggled under Schottenheimer in 2015. While UGA won 10 games in 2015, they had suspect quarterback play and weren’t able to get hardly any production in the receiving game outside of redshirt senior Malcolm Mitchell.

What stood out as the biggest issue with the Schottenheimer offense was that the tight ends were almost non-existent at times in the passing game. True freshman Terry Godwin was able to become a nice No. 2 option to Malcolm Mitchell in the receiving game in the second half of the season, but much of that has to do with him being a five-star athlete coming out of high school.

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Overall, Brian Schottenheimer had both a ton of adversity and lofty expectations with the 2015 Georgia Bulldogs offense that his staff largely failed to meet. Georgia has all eyes on 2016 with what new head coach Kirby Smart can do in his first year as head coach. However, Dawg Nation now knows that Schottenheimer did end up leaving Athens for another gig in the NFL, this one a quarterbacks coach with the Indianapolis Colts.

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