The Linked Legacies of Quarterback and Coach
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Almost shadowed by Eli Manning in pressureÂs spotlight is the man with the most to win or lose by the quarterbackÂs performances: Tom Coughlin, the head coach.
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Someday Bill Parcells and Joe Gibbs will both be in the football Hall of Fame. For now, both are locked in the quest to resurrect two of the most storied franchises in history.
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In todayÂs N.F.L., coaches looking to change their teamsÂ fortunes will not hesitate to change quarterbacks. It worked for Dallas with Tony Romo and now Denver is hoping for success with Jay Cutler.
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There are football players, and there are guys who were born to play football. They called him the Minister of Defense, and he defined his position in an amazing career that took him from the University of
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Dust off those old Michigan No. 16 jerseys - John Navarre is back in town. As of yesterday, Navarre is the starting quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals, and that means that â-ome Sunday, when the Cardinals
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LAST week a reporter drew a parallel between Tyrone Willingham&#39;s three seasons as the head football coach at Notre Dame and Pete Carroll&#39;s tenure at Southern California.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Purdue coach Joe Tiller doesnât think players today have a sense of history. Thatâs too bad, because the Boilermakers - and quarterback Kyle Orton â-ay be on the verge of a historic season.
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com senior editor. The âfamily treesâ of NFL coaching staffs are often fascinating and worthy of deep study that usually reveals a lot about the head coach&#39;s fundamental philosophies of offense, defense, drafting, etc.
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Buried in a pro football graveyard is a forgotten unbeaten and untied team, the 1948 Cleveland Browns, who were led by quarterback Otto Graham and Coach Paul Brown.
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Before he picks up a phone, looks at a game plan or drinks his first sip of coffee, Darrell Dickey looks at a picture on his desk and says good morning. The player in the picture is Andrew Smith, the North Texas quarterback killed in a car accident last month, a tragedy that suddenly made football seem less important to Dickey, the coach, and the 80 other players on the team.
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We've been seeing Tony Dungy for a while. The Colts have been in the news a lot during this century. We have something of a read on Tony Dungy.
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Bob Knight has made many memorable statements during his coaching career.
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Former All-Pro quarterbacks Dan Marino and Steve Young, both first-year eligible candidates, head a list of 89 former players, coaches, and contributors who comprise a list of preliminary nominees for enshrinement to the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Class of 2005.
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Part of the reason anybody believes in quarterback Jeff Garcia's ability to revive the Cleveland Browns stems from a game 21 long months ago.
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Mike Vrabel has the football neatly displayed back home in Ohio. He carries the memory with him everywhere.
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It was only a three-year, mid-life fling during the course of two long, varied coaching careers. But from 1988-90, Tom Coughlin and Bill Parcells found professional soul mates in one another.
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An unbeknownst quarterback from Miami (Ohio) used a game at Michigan Stadium three years ago to introduce himself to the college football world.