what did john elway do after he retired from the nfl?\nhe retired from proffessional \nfootball?
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when you drive into denver, there is no welcome to denver sign, just a big billboard for john elway toyota.  \n\nsince his retirement, i am sure he has continued to do evil.
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While there are strategies on and off the field to learn, this is a people business.  Knowing how to communicate to people to motivate them to achieve their best is what you want to focus on.\nDo your homework by finding out where the current and recent past coaches came from.  Find the name of every coach for every team in the NFL over the last 10 years.  Find out what their backgrounds were.  Did they start as players?  Coach college first?  Find the coach(es) that you want to embrace as role models, not for their winning record, but for their ability to get the job.  A background you can relate to and emulate.  Start with coaching right now.  City league football or YMCA or HS asst. coach.  Try private schools since they're not a govt. agency they may be easier to get started with.  There's nothing like doing it to learn to do it.  You have to be able to asst. coach HS before you can asst coach college ball.  You have to understudy a good college head coach before you can be a College Head Coach.  If you can't with a college team, you won't be going to the NFL.  You have to prove yourself so you might as well get started.  Degrees and resume qualifications won't get you the job.\n\nThis is a relationship based business.  Start placing yourself in correct environment to initiate, build and nurture those relationships.  Look on the sidelines and find out who's there and who they work for.  Relentlessly pursue the job that puts you on the sidelines.  Read "The 21 Indisputable Laws of Leadership" by John Maxwell.  Get a hold of the team chaplin and volunteer to help him with anything, making copies, running errands, anything.  Don't take "no" for an answer.  Don't be annoying, be persistant.  Did I mention to refine your people skills?\n\nGo for it!
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Here you go.\n\nhttp://www.profootballhof.com/history/release.jsp?release_id=1481
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I completely agree. It is sad that players often forget that it is those very same fans that pay his salary. Even worse he says he is sorry and it isnt representative of him or the Falcon organization. Is he serious? This isnt his first instance of bad behavior so I wonder exactly what is representative of who he really is? Time to grow up and act like a professional if he expects to get paid like one. For an instance i thought Jim Mora Sr. was wrong and out of line about Vick but now....maybe there is something in what he said!!!
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I've felt the exact same thing for about a year now.\n\nThe problem with the NFL now versus 20 years ago is that offensive systems have become so complex that only a few quarterbacks can learn them, and even they must have plays called from the sidelines.  (The last NFL quarterback to call his own plays - for the whole game - was Jim Kelly.  Nobody else has since the early 1980s.)  \n\nOf course, quarterbacks no longer calling their own plays is an *absolutely* *unrelated* to the 40 second play clock instituted during that decade.... (Yeah, right!)\n\nHaving quarterbacks who alternate based on the series and situation is a good idea.  There are many benefits to it:\n\n1) Injuries.  When 50-80% of players use steroids and HGH, having two game-ready quarterbacks is a good thing.  In the last decade, nearly half the NFL's starting quarterbacks in any given year missed games due to injury.  That never happened in the 1960s, 1970s, or even the 1980s.\n\n2) Less to learn.  Quarterbacks who have lots of talent but not the ability to learn more complex systems could thrive.  (If anybody is thinking "Jimmy the Greek" or "Rush Limbaugh" crap about black QBs, please kill yourself.  There are more white QBs by percentage who wash out than blacks.)  Improvisational players could get by on talent in ways that they can't now.\n\n3) Versatlity.  Very few players can do everything well.  Switching QBs could force defenses to switch personnel, leading to more defensive lapses and penalties just by changing one offensive player.\n\n4) Play calling.  Why have a receiver bring in one play at a time or use hand or radio signals and risk miscommunication, when an offensive coordinator could send in a QB with 5-10 plays at a time, enough for 1-2 sets of downs?  There would be less mistakes, and as they say in hockey, "fresh legs" because the player catches his breath.\n\n5) Defensive hell.  Marv Levy once talked about using Jim Kelly at QB and Doug Flutie at halfback and the havoc it could have caused defenses, this during the years of the "Ace" formation with one running back, Thurman Thomas and three wide receivers.  (He never tried it because Bills' management wouldn't let him.)  Just imagine having two capable passers on the field at once, one of them capable of running or receiving as well.  If Pittsburgh had used Neil O'Donnell and Cordell Stewart in this way, maybe both of them could have had great careers.\n\n\n.
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Saw it and agree.  That's the first thing I thought of when I saw it.\nJuniors great career is over.  He'll be in the HOF,  and he went out swinging, but I know he could have went another year or two just the same.  Always liked his passion for the game.  He'll be missed by many football fans.
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Where are the Aikman's. Marino, Elway, Montana, Young. I guess Favre is in there, he was good and kind of still is. I liked Staubach and Unitus too. Too many to list. Nameth. Bradshaw.
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From what it sounds like he has no interest in coaching anytime soon, that does not mean he has no interest in a front office job with the Steelers. I think it has more to do with the dignity he was treated with allowing him to retire on his own terms and allowing him the oppurtunity to help his team (watch how the 49er's treated Rice or Montana for comparison)
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Johnny Unitas, extolled in countless football arenas as one of the greatest quarterbacks ever to play the game, was almost denied the chance to prove his talent. Unitas began his career as field general while a sophomore at St. Justin's High School when the quarterback broke his ankle. Johnny U, it was decided, could throw the ball well enough and was moved to the QB position with less than a week to learn the entire offense. Johnny wanted very much to go to college to continue his sport and build himself a solid foundation for the future. However, his dream team, Notre Dame, was unwilling to take a gamble that his six foot, 138 pound frame would bulk up. Unitas received an offer from the University of Louisville, and after some consideration, decided being a big fish in a small pond might be more to his advantage after all. He made a solid reputation for himself while at Louisville that got him into the ninth slot for the Pittsburgh Steelers draft of '55. Unitas was eventually told the club couldn't use him, they had too many quarterbacks.\n\nThe Steelers had waited so long to let him go that it was too late for a chance of being drafted anywhere else. Johnny was left to construction work and the Bloomfield Rams, a semi-pro team that had to sprinkle its field with oil before every game to keep the dust down--since there was no grass to do it.\n\nFinally, one fateful day in February of 1956, the lucky call came. The Baltimore Colts were interested in what Johnny might be able to do for them.\n\nThey saw. They liked. They bought. The $7,000 contract was a far cry from the $3 a game he had been making on his dusty field. So began a 17-year career with the Colts. The 1958 title game in which Unitas took the Colts on two 80-yard drives to beat the New York Giants 23-17 is considered by many as the greatest pro football game ever played.\n\nJohnny U retired in 1973 after one year with the San Diego Chargers. He left behind him records for: most pass attempts (5,186); most completions (2,830); most total yards (40,239); most touchdowns (290); most 300-yard games (26); and most consecutive games throwing touchdown passes (47). He led the Colts to one Super Bowl Crown, three NFL championships, and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1979.
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who are you comparing these guys to?..Manning will go down in history as one the greats..Brady and McNabb (maybe) will likely join him in the hall of fame..outside them there isn't much..but little Manning and Palmer could be in the same breathe as them in a handful of years\n\nthese guys are still with their original teams..unless you count the draft of Eli as a charger..but remember Elway wasn't drafted by Denver
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Good luck with this guy...he won't listen to coaching...I watched him closely last season...out of position to make the play very often...he freelances too much, he's lost some speed, he can't cover recievers that well, and he pouts when things don't go his way...overpriced at any price....
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He should retire. jeff Garcia  is better qb.
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They got rid of Dilfer because he didn't get along with Maurice Carthon....how funny is that now?!\n\nFor more on the Browns and the NFL. http://factipedia.com/sportsblogs/
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No.  He's done.  He should be happy he had such a rewarding career in professional football and retire quietly and proudly.  If he did hook up with one last team, he'd be scratching for the last roster spot against undrafted rookie free agents.  That would be pitiful.
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I didnt hear of him passing. I just thought he retired because of a blown knee.
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The Broncos team and spirit are spiraling into a downfall. A team which once sat a top the AFC West, is not fighting for a playoff spot. Jake has been awful this year, especially compared to last year. Jake has thrown more interceptions than touchdowns. He has a quarterback rating of 70.5 and he is only completing 55% of his passes. Quite Frankly he is not getting the Job done.\n\nThe Broncos have lost two in a row. The passing game is abysmal. Jay Cutler is coming in and bringing something new. He gives the Broncos the best chance to win because he gives them the only chance to win. Jake is losing. They need to win and they need to win now. Jake will never be the next John Elway, as the Denver fans want. He was only a transition QB. It is time to move on. Cutler is the future. The future is here and now.
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On the radio Strahan said that Plaxico quit on the team with Manning's last interceptiion.  Plax came back and said that he would have to talk to Strahan about it.