Dorrell has been receivers coach for four years at the Jets: he has also has experience as a QB coach, Offensive Coordinator and Head Coach in some big programs. He's a product of UCLA and spent a little time with the Cowboys as a wide receiver. His resume looks pretty good, probably deeper than that of Bates - I'm wondering if this is a guy who should be calling plays for the offense. Please note I'm not yet suggesting that he take over as OC but Bates has not shown that game planning is a strong suit for him - what's to lose? Does anybody know anything about him other than what shows up in a quick Google? Karl Dorrell Wide Receivers College: UCLA Hometown: Alameda, CA Experience: 12 years Biography Karl Dorrell returns for his fourth season as the Jets wide receivers coach, marking his 29th season coaching at the collegiate and professional levels. The only constant in Dorrell’s time with the Jets has been change as his group has helped the Jets become the only team to have five different players register 50+ receptions in a single-season since he started in 2015 (Brandon Marshall, Eric Decker, Quincy Enunwa, Robby Anderson and Jermaine Kearse). Last season, with the offseason departure of both Marshall and Decker and the training camp season-ending injury to Enunwa, Dorrell was without three receivers who each produced a season of at least 50 catches and 850 yards, as the trio combined to register 337 receptions for 4,683 yards from 2015-16. In his second season, Anderson took a step forward and led the team with 941 yards and seven touchdowns, ranking him third and tied for first respectively among second-year receivers. Anderson also produced touchdowns in five consecutive games, tied for the fourth-longest single-season streak in franchise history. Kearse, then a six-year veteran who was added to the roster a week before the start of the regular season, led the team with a career-best 65 receptions. The duo of Anderson and Kearse, despite not playing together until kickoff weekend, became one of just six wide receiver pairings in the conference to each register five touchdowns, while also becoming the first to both have back-to-back 100-yard receiving games for the Jets since Don Maynard and George Sauer at OAK (12/17/67) and at SD (12/24/67) and the first to complete this feat in the NFL since 2014. In 2016, his second season with the Jets, following an injury to Decker, Dorrell would get increased contributions from Enunwa, who in his second season established career bests in every category and led the team in receiving yards and receiving touchdowns. Anderson, then an undrafted rookie free agent, finished with the sixth most receiving yards among rookie wide receivers in 2016 and finished seventh in franchise history for most receiving yards by a rookie, becoming the first Jets receiver with multiple touchdown receptions of 40+ yards since 2010. In his first season with the Jets (2015), Dorrell oversaw a record-setting receiving group led by Marshall, who earned Pro Bowl recognition after posting franchise marks with 109 receptions (fourth in the league), 1,502 yards (fourth) and 14 receiving touchdowns (tied for first). Additionally, Decker and Marshall would combine for the most receptions and receiving touchdowns of any wide receiver duo in Jets history while finishing second in team annals in total receiving yards. The pair also logged touchdowns in the same game nine times, besting the NFL record established in 1998. Before rejoining the NFL coaching ranks in 2015 with the Jets, Dorrell spent 2014 as the offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach at Vanderbilt. In his prior NFL stints, Dorrell helped the Texans reach the playoffs in 2012, when he tutored quarterback Matt Schaub to his second career Pro Bowl. With Dorrell’s guidance, Schaub recorded 4,008 passing yards and completed 64.3 percent of his passes, his highest completion percentage since 2009. Prior to his time with Houston, Dorrell spent four seasons in Miami, three as a wide receivers coach (2008-10) and the last as quarterbacks coach (2011). In 2011, he mentored Dolphins quarterback Matt Moore to a career season when he took over the starting job in Week Five. He went on to set career highs in almost every category, while also ranking fourth among AFC quarterbacks with an 88.7 passer rating. As the wide receivers coach from 2008-10, Dorrell saw Marshall and Davone Bess combine for the fourth most receptions of any duo in the NFL. Bess had 209 receptions from 2008-10, at the time the most by any Dolphins player in his first three years with the team. A head coach at UCLA from 2003-07, Dorrell was named the 2005 Pac-10 Conference Co-Coach of the Year. He guided the Bruins to five bowl games and an overall record of 35-27. In 2005, Dorrell led UCLA to a 10-2 record and No. 13 national ranking in the USA Today Coaches’ Poll. That same season, the Bruins defeated two ranked opponents, No. 21 Oklahoma and No. 10 California. The 2005 squad was led by quarterback Drew Olson and running back Maurice Jones-Drew, who helped the Bruins rank No. 5 nationally in scoring offense (39.1) and No. 23 in both passing offense (270.3) and total offense (431.0). Dorrell’s first full-time stint in the NFL came from 2000-02 when he served as the wide receivers coach for the Broncos. While with Denver, he helped Rod Smith eclipse 1,000 yards receiving three times and earn two Pro Bowl selections. In 2000, Ed McCaffrey posted 101 receptions for 1,317 yards and combined with Smith to become only the second wide receiver duo to each catch 100 passes in a single season. Dorrell received his full-time opportunity with the Broncos (2000) after working with the staff during training camp in 1993 and 1999 as part of the NFL’s Minority Coaching Fellowship program. Dorrell coached wide receivers at Colorado from 1992-93 and Arizona State in 1994 before returning to Colorado to serve as offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach of the Buffaloes from 1995-98. While in Colorado, Dorrell helped Charles Johnson and Michael Westbrook become just the fourth pair of receivers on the same team to top 1,000 yards in a season. Dorrell was an honorable mention All-America receiver at Helix High School in San Diego before helping the Bruins play in three Rose Bowls as a wide receiver during his playing career at UCLA (1982-86). After college, he spent time with the Dallas Cowboys in 1987. Dorrell graduated with a degree in psychology from UCLA in 1987, and began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at UCLA in 1988. A native of San Diego, CA, Dorrell and his wife, Kim, have two children, Chandler and Lauren.
If he is the WR coach shouldn't we be calling for him to be fired? Who the hell has this man developed?
A case could be made for Anderson. I'm more interested in his work with QB's and his time as a coordinator and head coach when I think he might be better equipped to be setting a game plan and calling plays than the incumbent. Of course whoever is calling plays can only do so much under the constraints put on by the head coach...unless a directive otherwise floats down from the heavens.
Hell no. He's part of the problem, not the solution. He was a disaster as OC at Vandy a few years ago.
