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Trestman, Marc

CARDS: Topps XFL 2020
ACQUIRED: TTM 2022, C/o Home
SENT: 5/4 RECEIVED: 7/12 (69 days)

CAREER SNAPSHOT:

  • Marc Trestman is considered one of football’s great minds when it comes to QB whispering as he has played a hand in many a great QB’s ascensions or been on the coaching staff as of their rise.
  • After being unable to wrest the starting QB job at Minnesota, Marc Trestman transferred to Minnesota State University-Moorhead.
  • Unsigned, he spent camp with the Vikings in ’79 and ’80 as a defensive back but didn’t crack the lineup.
  • He began his college coaching career at Miami (FL) in 1981, and by ’83 was serving as the team’s QB coach.
  • Then in 1985, Trestman embarked on a series of stops as a positional coach and offensive coordinator in the NFL (Vikings, Browns, 49ers, Lions, Cardinals, Raiders, and Dolphins).
  • After a brief stop at NC State in 2005-’06, Trestman returned to the NFL as a consultant with the New Orleans Saints in 2007.
  • It’d be in late 2007 that Marc really carved out a name for himself as he was hired as HC of the Montreal Alouettes of the CFL.
  • Paired with GM Jim Popp, Marc’s Alouette teams won back to back CFL Grey Cups in 2009 and 2010.
  • By 2012, Trestman was garnering NFL attention, and in 2013 he was hired as the Chicago Bears head coach.
  • Trestman was the first coach since Bud Grant to jump from the CFL to the NFL.
  • He’d finish his rookie head coaching season 8-8 as the Bears would break multiple offensive team records.
  • Unfortunately he’d not see the same success in 2014, as the team slid to 5-11.
  • After a stop in Baltimore as their OC in 205/’16, Marc returned to the CFL where he had the most success.
  • Reunited with Jim Popp – this time in Toronto, where the Argos pulled off a worst to first, winning the Great Cup in 2017.
  • He’d be fired after the 2018 season.
  • Marc hopped on over to the XFL 2020, where he coached the Tampa Bay Vipers to a 1-4 record before COVID took down the league.
  • After a long hiatus, Trestman was hired by Jim Harbaugh to be an assistant with the Los Angeles Chargers in 2024.

ACCOLADES:

  • CFL Coach of the Year 2009, ’17

NOTES:

I was interested in learning more about Marc and I thought the best way to do so was to see his offensive mind at work, so I asked him to diagram up a play with his autograph. He. Did. Not. Instead I got a note, which I thought was a bit snarky, wishing me luck with whatever I do with the autograph, or something like that. Okay dude.