PRESEASON EditiON - Detroit Lions
PRESEASON EditiON - Detroit Lions
PRESEASON EditiON - Detroit Lions
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<strong>Detroit</strong>lions.com<br />
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ted<br />
rath<br />
Assistant<br />
Strength & Conditioning<br />
Years with <strong>Lions</strong>: 4<br />
Years in NFL: 4<br />
Ted Rath returns for his fourth season as the <strong>Lions</strong> assistant<br />
strength and conditioning after joining the team during the 2009<br />
offseason. He had spent the previous two years as the assistant<br />
director of strength and conditioning for his alma mater, the University<br />
of Toledo. Rath was a linebacker for the Rockets (2003-2006) and<br />
helped them claim the 2004 MAC Championship and earn two bowl<br />
game berths, including the 2004 Motor City Bowl at Ford Field.<br />
While working with Toledo’s strength and conditioning program,<br />
Rath directed the strength regimens for all 15 of their Olympic Sports.<br />
He also assisted with all phases of football training protocols,<br />
including design and implementation of their workouts. Prior to being<br />
named assistant director, Rath worked as a graduate assistant and<br />
focused on the strength programs for men’s basketball, baseball,<br />
track, cross country, golf and swimming.<br />
Rath, along with Coordinator of Physical Development Jason<br />
Arapoff, started the annual <strong>Detroit</strong> <strong>Lions</strong> Strength and Conditioning<br />
Clinic in 2011. The event is a forum for providing, sharing and<br />
exchanging information in the ever changing world of strength &<br />
conditioning.<br />
After graduating from Toledo with a degree in Physical Education,<br />
Rath started his professional career at nearby Crestwood (Dearborn<br />
Heights, Mich.) High School where he was an assistant football<br />
coach as well as their director of speed and strength training. The<br />
Monroe, Mich., native is certified through the Collegiate Strength and<br />
Conditioning Coaches Association (C.S.C.C.A.) and has been published<br />
on www.speedandstrengthcoach.com.<br />
rath' s Background<br />
<strong>Detroit</strong> <strong>Lions</strong> .......................................................................... 2009-<br />
Strength and Conditioning Assistant .....................................................2009-<br />
Toledo ................................................................................ 2007-09<br />
Assistant Director of Strength and Conditioning ........................... 2008-09<br />
Graduate Asst. Strength and Conditioning Coach .......................... 2007-08<br />
Crestwood (Dearborn Heights, Mich.) H.S. .................................2007<br />
Asst. Coach/Director of Speed and Strength Training ..........................2007<br />
marCus<br />
robertson<br />
Defensive Assistant/<br />
Secondary<br />
Years with <strong>Lions</strong>: 1<br />
Years in NFL: 6<br />
Marcus Robertson joins <strong>Detroit</strong>’s coaching staff entering his 22nd<br />
season in the NFL and his sixth season as a coach. He has coached<br />
the past five NFL seasons with Tennessee where he started as an<br />
assistant secondary coach (2007-08) and finished as their secondary<br />
coach (2009-11).<br />
Robertson’s first season assisting with the secondary was 2007.<br />
That season the Titans improved from 27th to 10th in pass defense<br />
and from 32nd to fifth in overall yardage allowed.<br />
In 2008, three of the four Tennessee secondary players (CB Cortland<br />
Finnegan, S Chris Hope, S Michael Griffin) were invited to the Pro Bowl<br />
for the first time in their careers. Overall, the defensive backs collected<br />
19 interceptions, which ranked second in the NFL in interceptions by<br />
a secondary. The Titans ranked ninth in pass defense and seventh<br />
in total defense.<br />
Robertson was promoted to Secondary coach in 2009 and the Titans<br />
finished that season eighth in the NFL in interceptions (20) and second<br />
in interceptions returned for touchdown (4). Over the span of his three<br />
seasons coaching Tennessee’s secondary (2009-11), the Titans were<br />
second in the NFL in average passing yards/completion (10.55).<br />
Robertson played 12 NFL seasons after being drafted out of Iowa<br />
State in the fourth round by the Houston Oilers in 1991. He played his<br />
first 10 seasons in Houston/Tennessee and finished his career with<br />
Seattle (2001-02). Roberson’s NFL career was highlighted by All-Pro<br />
seasons in 1993 and 1997. He played in 157 games (144 starts) with<br />
851 tackles, 24 interceptions and 1.5 sacks.<br />
After Robertson’s playing career ended with the Seahawks, he<br />
returned to the Titans as their Director of Player Development (2003-<br />
06). He spent the next four years assisting players with their career<br />
transition into and out of the NFL through continuing education,<br />
financial education and dealing with family matters through player<br />
programs. Robertson and his staff won the Winston and Shell Award<br />
in 2006 for their innovation and commitment to player development<br />
in the NFL<br />
Robertson was inducted into the Iowa State Athletic Hall of Fame<br />
in 2009, where he starred as a cornerback and totaled 257 tackles,<br />
six interceptions and nine forced fumbles during his four-year career.<br />
A native of Pasadena, Calif., Robertson (10/2/69) and his wife, Holly,<br />
have three children: Morgan, Milan and Marcus Andrew.<br />
roBErtson' s Background<br />
<strong>Detroit</strong> <strong>Lions</strong> .................................................................. 2012-<br />
Defensive Assistant/Secondary .................................................... 2012-<br />
Tennessee Titans ........................................................2007-11<br />
Secondary .......................................................................................2009-11<br />
Assistant Secondary ....................................................................2007-08<br />
evan<br />
rothstein<br />
Quality Control/<br />
Special Teams<br />
Years with <strong>Lions</strong>: 1<br />
Years in NFL: 1<br />
Rothstein joined the <strong>Lions</strong> coaching staff this past offseason as<br />
a quality control/special teams coach. He will be responsible for<br />
opponent film breakdown and self-scouting in addition to assisting<br />
with all aspects of special teams.<br />
Rothstein comes to <strong>Detroit</strong> after spending the past two seasons<br />
as the offensive quality control coach for the Syracuse University<br />
Orange football program.<br />
Rothstein started his coaching career as an undergraduate student<br />
for the SUNY Cortland Red Dragons where he served as the student<br />
assistant offensive line coach, quality control, and director of video<br />
operations from the fall of 2006 to the spring of 2009.<br />
For the fall of 2009, Rothstein interned with the Syracuse University<br />
football video operations department before returning briefly to<br />
SUNY Cortland as their offensive line coach for the spring of 2010. He<br />
returned to the Syracuse University football staff as their offensive<br />
quality control coach in July of 2010.<br />
The Merrick, NY, native attended Bellmore John F. Kennedy High<br />
School, earning recognition as a National Football Foundation and<br />
College Hall of Fame Scholar Athlete for the Cougars. Rothstein<br />
graduated SUNY Cortland with a bachelor of science in sport<br />
management in 2009. He has a fiancé, Carol.<br />
rothstEin' s Background<br />
<strong>Detroit</strong> <strong>Lions</strong> .......................................................................... 2012-<br />
Quality Control/Special Teams ................................................................2012-<br />
University of Syracuse ........................................................ 2010-11<br />
Quality Control ....................................................................................... 2010-11<br />
SUNY Cortland .........................................................................2010<br />
Offensive Line .................................................................................................2010
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