Offensive Line Coach
NFL Experience: 18
Years with Buccaneers: 1
Entering his 18th season in the NFL and 30th year of coaching, Pete Mangurian is in his first season as the Buccaneers offensive line coach. Mangurian spent the past four seasons (2005-2008) on the coaching staff of the New England Patriots as the tight ends coach.Mangurian’s tight ends were part of one of the NFL’s most prolific offenses the past two seasons. New England’s offense finished the 2008 season ranked fifth in the NFL in total offense after ranking first in 2007. Patriots tight ends scored 10 touchdowns, including two from linebacker—turned goal line TE Mike Vrabel in 2007, and blocked for a running game that averaged 4.1 yards per rush in the regular season, the team’s highest average in 22 seasons. TE Benjamin Watson tallied a career-high six touchdowns, including four in the first five games. In 2006, Mangurian’s group contributed consistent offense as the Patriots introduced several new receivers into their offensive attack. Watson had a career year, finishing second on the team with a career-high 49 receptions for 643 yards.
In 2005, his first season tutoring the Patriots tight ends, Mangurian’s group scored 12 touchdowns, the most by Patriots tight ends in 21 years, while averaging 13.2 yards per catch, the highest by Patriots tight ends in 18 years. Additionally, Patriots tight ends recorded 56 receptions for 737 yards, with the average of 13.2 yards per catch representing the highest yards-per-catch figure by a group of New England tight ends since 1988.
Prior to joining the Patriots, Mangurian was a member of Dan Reeves’ staff with the Atlanta Falcons for three seasons from 2001-2003, a period during which the Falcons notably excelled in rushing and pass protection. As Atlanta’s offensive coordinator in 2003, Mangurian oversaw an offensive unit that averaged 4.48 yards per carry and allowed just 35 sacks, the fewest for the Falcons since 1991. His promotion to offensive coordinator came following a 2002 season during which he served as Atlanta’s offensive line coach and contributed to a season in which the Falcons set team records for yards-per-carry (4.53), rushing touchdowns (23) and most 30-point games (8).
Mangurian returned to the NFL in 2001 after spending three seasons as the head coach at Cornell. In his final two seasons (1999-2000), Cornell won a total of 10 Ivy League games under Mangurian, more than any other team in the league. His 10-4 league record over that span ties for the best two-year Ivy League record in school history. Mangurian recorded an overall record of 16-14 (.533) before returning to the NFL for the 2001 season.
The California native began his NFL coaching career in 1988, when Reeves hired him as the tight ends/H-backs coach for the Denver Broncos. He went on to become the team’s offensive line coach in 1991. Mangurian spent a total of five seasons with the Broncos and was on the staff of the 1989 AFC Championship team that appeared in Super Bowl XXIV. In 1993, he joined the New York Giants and spent four seasons mentoring the offensive line, helping to pave the way for Rodney Hampton to record three consecutive 1,000-yard seasons. Overall, he spent 13 seasons as an assistant to Reeves with Denver, New York and Atlanta.
Prior to entering the NFL ranks, Mangurian spent nine seasons as an assistant coach at the collegiate level. He began his coaching career in 1979, accepting a position as the assistant offensive line coach at Southern Methodist University. From there, he spent one season as the offensive line coach at New Mexico State (1981), then spent two seasons working with the offensive line at Stanford. In 1984, he began a four-season stint as the offensive line coach at his alma mater, Louisiana State, helping the Tigers earn four consecutive bowl bids and set school records for total offense on three separate occasions.
Mangurian and his wife, Amy, have two daughters, Lauren and Katie, and one son, Will.
MANGURIAN AT A GLANCE
- 1975-78...Louisiana State University, player
- 1979-1980...Southern Methodist University, Assistant Offensive Line Coach
- 1981...New Mexico State, Offensive Line Coach
- 1982...Stanford University, Special Assistant Coach (Offensive Line)
- 1983...Stanford University, Offensive Line Coach
- 1984-87...Louisiana State University, Offensive Line Coach
- 1988-1990...Denver Broncos, Tight Ends/H-Backs Coach
- 1991-92...Denver Broncos, Offensive Line Coach
- 1993-96...New York Giants, Offensive Line Coach
- 1997...Atlanta Falcons, Offensive Assistant Coach
- 1998-2000...Cornell University, Head Coach
- 2001-02...Atlanta Falcons, Offensive Line Coach
- 2003...Atlanta Falcons, Offensive Coordinator
- 2005-08...New England Patriots, Tight Ends Coach
- 2009...Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Offensive Line Coach
