Experience shows that those people who were selected to be a head coach in the NFL met with more success if they had had head-coaching experience.
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Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.
There's a lot of people who think in order to be a good head coach, you've got to be a head coach at a smaller school.
Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.
When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?'
Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.
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.
I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.
People sometimes ask me to name the greatest coach in NFL history. George Halas may have set the standard, but Don Shula has won more games than anyone, and he has done it in the most competitive era. He had an incomparable ability to evaluate players, to motivate them, and to teach them the game of football.
I can tell you, I grew up with great coaching, and it had nothing to do with sports. I had great parents. I really got some great input from there. They were entrepreneurial, middle-class business people.
Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.
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