According to The Athletic\u2019s Dianna Russini, recently retired (again) Indianapolis Colts quarterback Philip Rivers has withdrawn from the Buffalo Bills head coaching opening after interviewing entering this past weekend:<\/p>\n
Despite having no prior collegiate or pro coaching experience, the 44-year-old Rivers surprisingly received a head coaching interview for Buffalo late last week, as the longtime NFL starting quarterback (and arguably future Pro Football Hall of Famer) is an out-of-the-box candidate in that regard.<\/p>\n
That being said, after coming out of retirement to close out the season, making 3 starts for the quarterback desperate Colts\u2014despite having not played in 5 years, the timing doesn\u2019t appear to be right for Rivers in Buffalo.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s currently the head coach of St. Michael Catholic High School in Fairhope, Alabama, and one of his sons is a rising senior next year on the team, while another son will be an incoming freshman.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no question that from a locker room leadership standpoint and his masterful offensive accumen that Rivers seems poised to be a successful offensive coach at the NFL level\u2014whether it\u2019s as a quarterbacks coach, offensive coordinator, passing game coordinator, or even head coach.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s just a matter of when he\u2019s ready to fully make the jump\u2014while considering his large family life.<\/p>\n
Even though Rivers said no this go around, the Bills\u2019 interview experience has to be valuable for him regardless.<\/p>\n
Honestly, if the Colts ever have such an offensive coaching opening down the road, Rivers would be high on any list of my potential coaching candidates.<\/p>\n
Having some experience as a pro coaching assistant or coordinator would certainly help any initial head coaching transition, but this doesn\u2019t appear to be Jeff Saturday Part II as a head coach by any means. Whoever ultimately lands Rivers, whenever he chooses to go into pro coaching, will have gotten a really good one in my opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to The Athletic\u2019s Dianna Russini, recently retired (again) Indianapolis Colts quarterback Philip Rivers has withdrawn from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,7,2004,392,3562,2381,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-708467","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-news","13":"tag-indianapoliscolts","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115966099111140729","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708467","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=708467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}