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Anthony Campanile is a first-year defensive coordinator for the Jacksonville Jaguars and is one of the lesser-known names in the Titans’ head coaching search. He is one of those names I’d say is a person that insiders won’t mention as much, but management and coaches around the league adore. This is one I have also adored ever since I did a deep dive on him. Out of all of the Titans’ head coaching candidates that I’ve covered, this is the one I have been most excited to cover for quite some time. I mean, whenever there’s a head coaching candidate that has a very uncanny resemblance to Nashville comedian Nate Bargatzi, of course, I’m gonna be interested.
All joking aside, though, I’m starting to realize that out of all the first-timers in this coaching cycle, Campanile is my favorite. I’ll look at some coaching candidates every week that pique my interest for maybe two days, then I always end up back at Campanile. It’s the weirdest thing. It’s not even like he’s a popular candidate or anything; he has something about him that makes me feel like he’s gonna be a great head coach someday. So, without further ado, this is the head coaching profile of Jacksonville Jaguars defensive coordinator, Anthony Campanile.
Now, there’s obviously a lot of stuff to get into with Campanile and what he brings to the table, but before getting into that, it’s necessary to look into how Campanile got here. This path is, like last week’s, kind of weird, though not as odd as Matt Nagy’s: it still has its weird things. It all started in 2006, when Campanile (I’ll call him Camp from now on) got his first coaching job as a linebackers coach at Fair Lawn High School. After a year there, he went to Don Bosco Prep School to be a defensive coordinator from 2007-2009. Now this is when it gets weird. After his time as a defensive coordinator, Don Bosco made him the offensive coordinator in 2010, and he would serve in that position for two years.
After his time in the high school game, Rutgers brought Camp on as a defensive assistant, where he would stay in that position from 2012-2013. After this, he was promoted to tight ends coach, and after two years there, he became the wide receivers coach in 2015. In 2016, Boston College hired Camp as a defensive backs coach, where he would stay for the 2016 and 2017 seasons. He continued to climb the ladder at Boston College as he was promoted to Co-Defensive Coordinator, while staying a defensive backs coach in 2018.
After this, he got one of the biggest breaks of his coaching career when Jim Harbaugh called Camp and asked him to be the linebackers coach at Michigan. After spending 2019 at Michigan, Camp finally got the call-up to the NFL when Brian Flores decided to hire him as the linebackers coach for the Miami Dolphins, where he...
