Special teams coordinators handle a large number of players on the roster on both sides of the football. A lot of the reserve players play a ton of special teams and they are coming and going throughout the season.
Fipp said early in his coaching career he was more passionate about fighting for players on the cut line that he thought could help on teams and was frustrated by some of the decisions, but his attitude has changed as he’s gotten older.
“The job of making those cut-downs and managing the roster and the money, and all these things that a coach really doesn’t think about, there’s a lot to it,” he said. “And I think that the best thing that I can do in my position is just tell, or explain to them the repercussions of, ‘Oh, if we choose this guy and not that guy, it’s going to push more weight onto this player, and this player we’re asking an awful lot of already. It’s going to add more to his plate. Do we feel comfortable about doing that? If we do, that’s great.'”