Adam Gase enters his first year as quarterbacks coach for the Denver Broncos in 2011, after two seasons (2009-10) as the team’s wide receivers coach. Now in his seventh NFL season, Gase, 33, was named to his current position on Jan. 20, 2011.
Before joining the Broncos, Gase was an offensive assistant for San Francisco in 2008 after coaching three seasons (2005-07) with Detroit, including serving as the club’s quarterbacks coach during the 2007 campaign. He began his coaching career in 2000 at Louisiana State University and worked at the school until taking a position in the Lions’ scouting department in 2003.
Adam Gase enters his first year as quarterbacks coach for the Denver Broncos in 2011, after two seasons (2009-10) as the team’s wide receivers coach. Now in his seventh NFL season, Gase, 33, was named to his current position on Jan. 20, 2011.
Before joining the Broncos, Gase was an offensive assistant for San Francisco in 2008 after coaching three seasons (2005-07) with Detroit, including serving as the club’s quarterbacks coach during the 2007 campaign. He began his coaching career in 2000 at Louisiana State University and worked at the school until taking a position in the Lions’ scouting department in 2003.
In Gase’s second year as the Broncos’ wide receivers coach in 2010, wide receiver Brandon Lloyd became the first player in team history to lead the NFL in receiving yards (1,448). Lloyd also set career highs in receptions (77), receiving average (18.8) and receiving touchdowns (11), while earning his first career trip to the Pro Bowl. Under Gase’s tutelage, Lloyd became just the second player in NFL history to record his first 1,400-yard output in their eighth season or later.
In 2009, Brandon Marshall earned a Pro Bowl selection after becoming the fifth player in NFL history to post three consecutive 100-catch seasons (101-1,120 yds.). Marshall, who had a career-high 10 receiving touchdowns, set a league single-game record for receptions with 21 at Indianapolis (12/13/09), and his 43 catches in December tied for the most in a four-game period in the NFL since 1960.
As Detroit’s quarterbacks coach in 2007, Gase helped quarterback Jon Kitna total the sixth-most passing yards (4,068) in the NFL while becoming only the ninth player in NFL history to post consecutive 4,000-yard passing seasons.
A 16-game starter in 2007, Kitna’s passing yardage output under Gase that year ranked as the third highest by a Lion in franchise history. His play at the quarterback position helped the Lions become the first NFL team since Houston in 1990 to have four wide receivers each post at least 650 receiving yards in the same season.
From 2005-06, Gase coached as an offensive assistant with the Lions, working under Head Coach Steve Mariucci in 2005 and under Head Coach Rod Marinelli in 2006.
The 2005 campaign marked the beginning of Gase’s NFL coaching career, and he worked as an offensive assistant for Detroit primarily with its running backs and quarterbacks. He broke into the NFL in 2003 with the Lions as a scouting assistant and held that position until 2005.
From 2000-02, Gase worked at Louisiana State under Head Coach Nick Saban, serving as a defensive graduate assistant for the school in 2000 before working in recruiting and as an assistant to the head coach from 2001-02. During his three years with the Tigers, the school had a 26-12 overall record, won two bowl games (Peach Bowl in 2000, Sugar Bowl in 2001) and earned one Southeastern Conference Championship (2001).
Gase attended Michigan State University from 1996-99 and received a bachelor’s degree from the school. Born on March 29, 1978, in Ypsilanti, Mich., Gase is married to Jennifer, and they have two children -- daughter McKenzie and son A.J.
