Joe Philbin enters his second season as a senior offensive assistant with the Las Vegas Raiders.
Last season (2024), Philbin started as a senior offensive assistant before moving to interim offensive line coach in Week 10. Philbin owns 40 years of coaching experience, including 20 seasons in the NFL ranks and five seasons as a head coach in the NFL. Philbin oversaw an offensive line that included two rookie starters, G Jackson Powers-Johnson (14 starts) and T DJ Glaze (14 starts). Powers-Johnson earned a selection to the PFWA All-Rookie team, the fifth rookie offensive lineman in Raiders history to be selected since the award's inception in 1974.
Before joining the Raiders in 2024, Philbin spent one season at Ohio State (2023) working with the offensive line, where he tutored first-team All-Big Ten selections in T Josh Fryar, G Donovan Jackson, and G Matt Jones. Philbin assisted an offense that finished first in the Big Ten in total yards per game (407.9), second in passing offense (278.9) and third in scoring (30.5 ppg).
Philbin most recently worked in the NFL with the Dallas Cowboys from 2020-2022, serving as the club's offensive line coach. During the 2021 season, he oversaw seven different line combinations for a unit that blocked for the No. 1 offense in the league in total yards per game (407.0) and points per game (31.2). The offensive line provided protection for a 4,000-yard passer (Dak Prescott, 4,449), a 1,000-yard receiver (CeeDee Lamb, 1,102) and a 1,000-yard rusher (Ezekiel Elliot, 1,002). Under Philbin's guidance, he saw two players named to the Pro Bowl in T Tyron Smith and G Zack Martin, with Martin also earning first team All-Pro honors.
During his first season in Dallas, Philbin started eight different offensive line combinations that helped the offense tie a team record with four 500-yard performances, while ranking seventh in the league in first downs (371) and first in drives of 10-or-more plays (41).
Philbin previously served as offensive coordinator with the Green Bay Packers during two different stints, first from 2007-11, and then again in 2018. He rejoined the Packers after two seasons as the assistant head coach/offensive line for the Indianapolis Colts (2016-17) and four seasons as the head coach of the Miami Dolphins (2012-15).
In his return to Green Bay in 2018, Philbin helped QB Aaron Rodgers throw for 4,442 yards and 25 touchdowns against two interceptions – a TD/INT ratio of 12.5, the best single season mark in Packers' history.
During his two seasons with the Colts, Philbin led an offensive line that helped the offense rank seventh in the NFL in fewest giveaways (37) from 2016-17. The offensive line also paved the way for RB Frank Gore, who ranked ninth in total rushing yards (1,986) from 2016-17.
In 2016, Philbin tutored four different rookie starters along the offensive line, the most in the NFL, with C Ryan Kelly (16 starts) and T Joe Haeg (14) leading the way. Under his guidance, QB Andrew Luck finished in the top-10 in passing yards (4,240), passing touchdowns (31) and passer rating (96.4), while Gore became the first NFL running back to rush for 1,000-plus yards at the age of 33 or older since Redskins RB John Riggins in 1984.
As the head coach of the Miami Dolphins, Philbin helped the team increase their win total in his first two seasons (2012-13). From 2012-14, Miami ranked first in the NFL in fewest penalties with 233 over that span.
In 2014, Philbin coached QB Ryan Tannehill (4,045) and RB Lamar Miller (1,099) to become the first duo in franchise history to throw for 4,000-plus yards and rush for 1,000-plus yards in the same season.
In 2013, Miami ranked eighth in the league in scoring defense (20.9 ppg) and fifth in opponent passer rating (77.3). In his first season as head coach in 2012, Philbin led the Dolphins to the seventh-ranked scoring defense (19.8 ppg) and top-ranked red zone defense (42.6 percent) in the NFL, while guiding Tannehill to set a franchise rookie record in passing yards (3,294).
From 2007-11, Philbin served as the Packers offensive coordinator and directed an offense that ranked third in the NFL over that span in points per game (28.3), touchdowns (267), passing touchdowns (170) and net yards per game (372.8). During that time, the Packers ranked in the top-10 in the NFL in total yards and total points each season, one of only two teams do so, and ranked second in the league in fewest giveaways with 97. Three of the Packers top scoring seasons (2007, 2009, 2011) in team history came during his tenure.
In 2011, Philbin helped the Packers set franchise single-season records for total points (560), touchdowns (70), total yards (6,482) and net passing yards (4,924), while guiding Rodgers to the best single-season passer rating in NFL history (122.5). Green Bay led the league in scoring (35.0 ppg) and ranked second in fewest giveaways (14) and third in total yards per game (405.1).
In 2010, en route to winning Super Bowl XLV, the Packers finished with the NFL's fifth-ranked passing offense at 257.8 yards per contest, marking the first time in franchise history that the Packers averaged 250.0 net passing yards in back-to-back seasons. The offense also posted two 45-point games during the regular season, the first time Green Bay had accomplished that feat since 1983.
From 2008-09, Philbin helped the Packers become the first team in league history to have a 4,000-yard passer (Rodgers), a 1,200-yard rusher (RB Ryan Grant) and two 1,000- yard receivers (WRs Greg Jennings and Donald Driver) in back-to-back seasons.
In 2007, Philbin helped the Packers' offense rank second in the NFL in total yards per game (370.7). He helped QB Brett Favre throw for 4,155 yards and 28 touchdowns that year, which combined with Rodgers' 4,038 yards in 2008 marked the first time in league history that a team had different 4,000-yard passers in consecutive years.
In 2006, Philbin oversaw a line that ranked fifth in the NFL with 24 sacks allowed and improved their rushing average by a half-yard per carry. In 2005, Philbin's tight-end group featured three players with 25-plus receptions each (Donald Lee, David Martin, Bubba Franks), one of only two teams in the NFL to do so that season.
Philbin originally joined the Packers in 2003 as an assistant offensive line coach and then spent two seasons as the tight ends/assistant offensive line coach (2004-05) before being promoted to offensive line coach in 2006. He helped the offensive line rank second in the league in sacks allowed (60) from 2003-05, including a franchise low 14 in 2004.
Philbin came to Green Bay after 19 seasons coaching at the collegiate level, including four as offensive line coach at the University of Iowa (1999-2002). In 2002, he coached an offensive line that helped the team finish second in the Big Ten in rushing (214.2 yards per game). Under Philbin's guidance, Eric Steinbach, Robert Gallery, and Bruce Nelson earned first team All-Big Ten honors, while Steinbach also earned All-America honors. All three players went on to be selected in the first two rounds of the NFL Draft.
Prior to Iowa, Philbin served as offensive coordinator and offensive line coach at Harvard from 1997-98. He was the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach at Northeastern University from 1995-96 after one season as offensive line coach at Ohio University in 1994.
He also spent four seasons (1990-93) at Allegheny College, where the program finished with two undefeated seasons and the NCAA Division III national championship in 1990.
PERSONAL: A native of Springfield, Mass., Philbin graduated from Washington & Jefferson College (Pa.), where he played tight end…He earned a master's degree in education from Tulane University in 1986…Philbin and his wife, Diane, have six children, Matthew, John, Kevin, Tim, Colleen, and deceased son, Michael.
