Of the eight new head coaches in the NFL this season, five of them once played quarterback. Will their experience at the position pay off?
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But he contends that Kingsbury, having come straight from college football, actually has an edge over the competition because of the mystery factor.“I don’t think there’s any doubt, especially if it’s September,” Arians said. “It definitely gives them the advantage. The unknown is the best thing you can have.”
“It’s been a challenge,” he said. “When you’ve been in one place for six years, some of the terminology can run together and some things can start to not make sense to anybody outside of that building. There’s also a significant generation gap among the coaches. There are Arians and Fangio, 61, and then the much younger Kitchens, 44; Gase, 41; Kingsbury, 40, LaFleur, 39; Flores, 38 and Taylor, 36.
“I never gave it much thought one way or another,” Fangio said. “I was very happy being a defensive coordinator in the NFL, especially with Chicago the past four years. We finally had gotten that thing to where we were good. I would have been fine staying there too. I didn’t stress about becoming a head coach.”
But even for those with a veteran quarterback at the helm — Taylor has Andy Dalton, for instance — moving up from an assistant’s role is difficult.
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