There's a saying in my business that there are two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who haven't been fired yet. That's kind of like prostate cancer. Every man will have it if he lives long enough.
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We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.
People always get confused. They talk about coaches. The reality is, these coaches and managers that everybody thinks are in so much control, they work for us. They're our employees.
A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.
The players fire the coach, and as long as I'm on the same wavelength with them, I can coach as long as I want to.
Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
Name one experienced coach anywhere in the world that would hand over their playbook to the other team. Unless it's a fake playbook, it just doesn't happen.
I think players changing coaches is normal.
If you win a Super Bowl before you're fired, you're a genius, and everyone listens to you. But a coach is just a guy whose best class in grammar school was recess and whose best class in high school was P.E. I never thought I was anything but a guy whose best class was P.E.
Athletes are still exploited. If they blow out their knee, if they somehow don't meet the mandates of a coach, they lose their scholarship. They don't get their degree.
Football coaches don't have real problems.