so far i see peyton manning and bart scott. you can see it beyond their performance on the field, but also how they carry themselves and their understanding of the game. i can easily see scott having singletary type success. who else might be out there?
Agreed, Peyton has it but Eli doesn't, you need the natural leader ability and commanding presence. Scott and Peyton do seem like good future HC candidates. Pennington could be a QB Coach or maybe eventually a HC too.
Cowher, Parcells - guys of that caliber were depth chart JAGs that went on to become great coaches. its rare nowadays to see a famous high caliber player become a good head coach. Dungy, Herm Edwards - they weren't anything special during their playing days. Its going to be guys you didn't even know had careers will be coaching teams.
I'd love to see Chad as a coach. I think he would be a tremendous qb coach and it would be fantastic if the jets grabbed him to tutor Sanchez. IMHO of course.
Offensive linemen go into coaching pretty often it seems. I'm surprised Boselli never went that route, but he's been a commentator and aspiring politician since retiring.
I agree. Most star players are perfectionists and probably wound too tight to put up with and sift through all the underachievers and scrubs of the league. I would be shocked if Manning ever became a HC. I think Chad could, but I doubt he will.
Agreed, there's gonna be a helluva bidding war between ESPN, Fox, CBS and NBC to land Manning the day he calls it quits. A few players who I think could make good coaches are Matt Birk, Antonio Pierce, Mike Vrabel, and Tony Gonzalez. A player who I fear will become a coach after he retires is Brett Favre. ESPN will probably offer to pay his salary for whatever team hires him.
I don't see any of these people being coaches. The people who are coaches now are because they got paid jack shit as players and can actually make decent money now as a coach. Manning and Scott and Pennington will be way too busy with their investments to worry about making a few extra million a year doing something that would take way too much of their time.
mike singletary made money is a big name HOFer with a lot of other opportunities to make money yet he's coaching. there's been big name players who went into coaching, some people just love football and so even though they could make money another way that doesn't mean they wouldn't become a coach........peyton loves football that's why he was so mature as a qb so young, he loves the game and challanges and competing, i can def see him wanting to coach and be around the smell of the game rather than become another talking head which he could do at any time he wanted. i can also see bart scott preferring to be a HC over doing some shtick on espn or the NFL network or something. the bottom line would be, do they desire it? i think both scott and manning are going to be bitten by the coaching bug.
