How many of you remember a guy by the name of Scott Linehan? He was the Miami Dolphins’ offensive coordinator under head coach Nick Saban in 2005, and although the Dolphins didn’t exactly set the world on fire that season, they were apparently at least competent enough on offense that the then St. Louis Rams decided to hire him as their head coach the following year.
As far as I know, that was the first and last time that any NFL team hired a former Dolphins OC as their head coach, at least as a result of what he’d accomplished in Miami.