{"id":704691,"date":"2026-01-25T20:20:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T20:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/704691\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T20:20:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T20:20:39","slug":"bills-interview-philip-rivers-for-head-coaching-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/704691\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills interview Philip Rivers for Head Coaching job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Bills have been very interested in the 2025 Colts, opting to look for a replacement for the recently ousted Sean McDermott with a pair of candidates from the Colts coaching staff and roster. While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stampedeblue.com\/indianapolis-colts-rumors\/120891\/colts-dc-lou-anarumo-emerges-as-candidate-in-bills-head-coaching-search\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Defensive Coordinator Lou Anarumo is no surprise candidate<\/a> with his long history as Defensive Coordinator with the Bengals and Colts, their more recent interviewee certainly is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Philip Rivers going from longtime NFL QB, to High School Head Coach for his son\u2019s team, to NFL QB again (albeit briefly), to now being a potential NFL Head Coach is quite a journey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The lack of experience as a collegiate or NFL coaching experience would make Rivers the first full-time coach of his kind in 65 years. While he did coach a High School team using an NFL style playbook modelled after the system he and Steichen ran during their days on the San Diego Chargers, the jump to the pros from coaching High School is near unprecedented in many fans\u2019 lifetimes (outside of Jeff Saturday\u2019s interim stint as the Colts head coach in 2022).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Rivers to his credit isn\u2019t just any former NFL QB, but one of the top 7 QBs all time statistically in Passing Yards and Touchdowns. He also did express an openness to coaching in the NFL earlier this month despite initial plans to return to coaching High School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With Colts Offensive Coordinator Jim Bob Cooter also interviewing with the Eagles for their open Offensive Coordinator job, some speculated that Rivers could be a candidate to replace Cooter as the Colts Offensive Coordinator. But the Bills have a chance to change that contingency plan if they opt for Rivers as their next Head Coach or force the Colts to need to hire up to two new coordinators if they opt for Anarumo instead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While it is not guaranteed, changes could be coming to the Colts staff very soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bills have been very interested in the 2025 Colts, opting to look for a replacement for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,7,2004,392,15563,2381,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-704691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-colts","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-indianapolis","11":"tag-indianapolis-colts","12":"tag-indianapolis-colts-rumors","13":"tag-indianapoliscolts","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115957597955714179","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704691","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=704691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}