Miami Receives Permission to interview Steelers LB Coach Keith Butler

Dolphins to interview Steelers' Keith Butler for defensive coordinator job

By Omar Kelly & Mike Berardino

South Florida Sun-Sentinel


Keith Butler, candidate for the Dolphins defensive coordinator position, has coached a number of standout linebackers

The Miami Dolphins have requested and received permission to talk with Pittsburgh Steelers assistant Keith Butler about the vacant defensive coordinator position, according to a team source.

Butler just finished his seventh season coaching Pittsburgh's linebacker. Before that he coaches the Browns' linebackers from 1999-2002.

During his tenure in Cleveland, Butler coached alongside Dolphins head coach Tony Sparano for two seasons on that Browns staff, where Sparano served as the offense's quality control coach in 1999, and offensive line coach in 2000.

 

Here is one more to support my first article...

http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/thed...latest-name-in-dolphins-d-coordinator-search/

 

apparently there was some controversy there
i had read davis was hired hired around the 18th
lets just hope Butler nails the interview and makes the move

 

This waiting is killing me!

 

Keith Butler
I hope the Big Tuna has the right lure to real this one in call it an experiment but he is groomed to be a very good DC. Super Bowl caliber mind and attitude to drill into our young players.

Make that a heads up play by Sparano

 

ROFL! all of us and this part of the season has just began.

 

I like this part and have the same question about Porter?

 

it's like congress, everything behind closed doors
they know what they had to do to upgrade
long before releasing our defensive coordinator
mere posturing, the deed has been set in place
& we will find out about it, after the fact
whoever they select will be a major improvement

 

I dont want to see Porter back, time for him to go.....he gets swallowed up to easy, I want a young hungry guy in there....

 

No reason you can't have both, draft a young stud and have him learn under Porter until he is ready. Porter could become a coach on the field for Butler.

Much in the same way Nat Jones was for Paul Pasq.

 

being that most likely next year is an uncapped year, i wouldnt mind him back in a very limited role, but also being that its uncapped, its our chance to get out from the rest of Porters contract for no fee..

how much longer is Porters contract?

 

this one, they may have had in mind from the beginning

 

Where is Butler?

No old man Groh Please! Parcells let Sparano hire
the man. Don't go with a buddy. Let's get the younger
guy from the Steelers. He will fix this mess with toughness.

 

to be interviewed this week

 

probably somewhere in pittsburgh

Man, i can tell your thirst for Dolphins related news has you posting threads that are almost as un-newsworthy as mine usually are! haha

I dont know how i make it through the offseason every year!

 

I read something where they said that they want to hire someone by the end of the weekend......the only person so far they interviewed is Groh.......who knows maybe they interviewed Butler today....

 

I personally love the off-season. I'm prolly just crazy.

 

No.
They have not.
We would know when he got in to town.

 

It has already been reported he was interviewed Monday or Tuesday

 

link? cuz i heard he hasnt been interviewed yet

 

Don't underestimate the value of experience. I'm not saying Groh is better than Butler or anything of the sort, but who do you think has seen more over the years?

 

lot of truth to that...experience cannot be bought or learned or read in a book. takes time @ task to acquire.

 

While there is an amount of truth in this, we must consider that we also saw about all we are going to see from Groh. He's been around forver and in that time he has never done anything "special". So while he has seen everything so have we seen everything from him. I or no one knows for sure if Butler will be any good or not. I really like the fact he has spent 7 years learning under if not the best defensive mind in foottball then certainly one of them. It's also very comforting to know that the people in Pittsburgh think so highly of him that they have anointed him the heir apparent to Dick Lebeau. Personally from a defensive side I couldnt think of a better complement for a young defensive mind.

 

Unless you're Alen1 that is.
In his case, he was just born with it

 

ehhhh not true. i remember when this was just drunkenpuppies and alen was the biggest postwhore i ever seen....just posting random 1 word phrases and thankyous, and "haha's" etc

and now alen is someone who is younger than me, that i respect the hell out of......he knows his stuff, and its all because of a extraordinary amount of hardwork he put into stuff. hes gunna go far. and its all because he has busted his *** for it.

 

Going for Groh over Butler or whomever is like taking the 50 dollars cash instead of seeing what's behind door number 2...sure cash in hand is the safe bet and hard to argue with, but then again you'll always be wandering what could have been. Great success has never come with investing in the known, always the unkown.

 

That's hilarious because I was thinking the same thing when I wrote my reply but didn't use that analogy

 

Yep, completely agree. One of the best posters on this site.

 

If they hire Keith Butler do you think he will bring any players along from Pitts?

 

The Steelers don't have many free agents this year. Casey Hampton, Ryan Clark, Deshea Townsend, that's about it. Townsend's 34, he doesn't fit the mold of free agents this front office likes to bring in. I'd like to kick Ryan Clark's tires, as we could use the safety help even if only for a couple of years.

What Butler would really bring is scouting experience. He'd help more in terms of ranking linebackers in the draft than anything else.

 

if Butler comes in it will be more about the scheme
you want to hire a DC to make draft decisions
I don't
we have guys to do that
come on

 

Moot point now that Butler has turned us down, but Butler has personally scouted some LBs, Sean Witherspoon in particular. And yes, the coordinators do get a say in what sort of players they would prefer, just as the head coach gets a say in what sort of players he would prefer. This does affect the draft board.