Clint Hurtt has experience from his time with the Seattle Seahawks familiarity with Jalen Carter and is charged with molding a young unit into a cohesive unit.
PHILADELPHIA – Every new assistant coach hired by the Eagles this offseason will be crucial to the team’s fortunes this year.
Leaving new coordinators Kellen Moore and Vic Fangio out of this equation, perhaps the most important new hire is assistant defensive line coach Clint Hurtt because he is charged with molding a unit that has only been allowed to purchase an alcoholic drink for less than a handful of years now. “The first thing is learn the culture of the building, see how everything operates … You want to fit in, obviously,” he said last month. “It’s been a successful place. You don’t need to come in and anything crazy by imposing my personality and things like that. The biggest thing is fitting in, and obviously doing my part to help those guys develop inside. That’s really what the transition has been like for me so far.
Hurtt has some familiarity with Carter from his time wth the Seahawks, who did a lot of pre-draft homework on Carter coming out of the University of Georgia. Many mock drafters had the Seahawks taking him fifth overall, but they went with cornerback Devon Witherspoon instead.
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