{"id":699395,"date":"2026-01-23T17:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/699395\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T17:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:28:13","slug":"philip-rivers-to-interview-for-bills-head-coaching-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/699395\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip Rivers to Interview for Bills\u2019 Head Coaching Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5t\">The Bills are reportedly thinking outside the box amid their tumultuous coaching search.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5w\">Buffalo is interviewing former Chargers and Colts quarterback Philip Rivers for its head coaching position Friday, according to a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/2014737425143124259\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Schefter of ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5z\">Rivers, 44, has no coaching experience outside of a four-year stint at St. Michael Catholic High School in Fairhope, Ala.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"62\">He spent the end of 2025 in the news for a different reason. Five years after retiring, Rivers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/philip-rivers-five-other-grandfathers-played-professional-sports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suited up for an injury-ravaged Indianapolis team<\/a>. He played in three games this season, tossing four touchdowns against three interceptions.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"65\">In younger days, Rivers was a consistent winner for the San Diego and Los Angeles Chargers. He made the Pro Bowl in eight different years, and garnered multiple Comeback Player of the Year honors in 2013.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"68\">The Bills\u2014without a championship in the Super Bowl era\u2014are searching for answers after firing longtime coach Sean McDermott. On Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/bills\/new-report-josh-allen-role-bills-next-coaching-hire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Athletic\u2019s Dianna Russini<\/a> reported that quarterback Josh Allen is taking an active role in Buffalo\u2019s search.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL on Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bills are reportedly thinking outside the box amid their tumultuous coaching search. Buffalo is interviewing former Chargers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[215,214,53,2086,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-699395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-bills","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-buffalobills","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115945597041026720","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}