When Vance Joseph left his job as Dolphins defensive coordinator to become coach of the Denver Broncos in January, Adam Gase needed not even a minute to determine that linebackers coach Matt Burke would replace him. That decision actually was made a year ago, the week Gase hired both men.
“When I hired him with Vance, that was the plan,” Gase said Thursday. “That was the main reason I wanted to make sure we had [Burke]. I really felt Vance was only going to be here a year. We wanted to get the system in place and we didn’t want to change it.