It\u2019s been a wild few days for Philip Rivers, who as of Sunday evening was rumored to be a serious contender for the Buffalo Bills\u2019 opening at head coach. Instead, Rivers withdrew his name for consideration early on Monday. With that, the still-unrealized dream of a talented former NFL player void of any professional coaching experience was dead in the water.<\/p>\n
Depending on one\u2019s point of view, the idea of Rivers as Buffalo\u2019s next head coach was met either with mockery, shock, or elation. Still, zero experience as an NFL coach is a massive hurdle to overcome, field general or otherwise.<\/p>\n
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Despite Rivers withdrawing his name in this regard, it\u2019s possible the Bills and Rivers aren\u2019t through talking. Some have wondered if there\u2019s a path for Rivers to enter the professional teaching\/leadership ranks as a quarterbacks coach with Buffalo.<\/p>\n
Rivers is currently the head football coach for St. Michael Catholic High School. He played 18 years in the NFL (16 years with SD\/LA Chargers, 2 years with Indianapolis Colts), which was bridged by his initial retirement following the 2020 NFL season playoffs. After a five-year layoff, Rivers returned to a starting quarterback role with the Colts late during the 2025 NFL season. Now 44 years old, Rivers again retired following the Colts\u2019 regular-season finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a wild few days for Philip Rivers, who as of Sunday evening was rumored to be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[215,214,53,2086,241,7,6496,22555,392,6,3725,19080],"class_list":["post-706994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-buffalo-bills","tag-bills","tag-buffalo","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-buffalobills","tag-chargers","tag-football","tag-head-coach","tag-head-football-coach","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-nfl","tag-philip-rivers","tag-quarterbacks-coach"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115962918364213878","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706994","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=706994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}