One other beautiful NFL return may very well be in retailer for Philip Rivers.
This time as a head coach.
Rivers was set to interview Friday for the Buffalo Payments’ head teaching job, based on experiences.
The previous quarterback, 44, has been the pinnacle soccer coach at St. Michael Catholic Excessive in Fairhope, Ala., since 2021, however he’s by no means been a part of an NFL teaching workers.
But the shut relationship between Payments star quarterback Josh Allen and Rivers has helped make the latter a reputable candidate, based on NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport.
“Buffalo has been looking for a leader. Hard to imagine a better one,” Rapoport wrote on social media. “We shall see. But this is pretty real.”
The interview comes lower than two months after Rivers got here out of retirement to start out three video games for the injury-riddled Indianapolis Colts.
Showing in his first video games since 2020, Rivers accomplished 63% of his passes for 544 yards and 4 touchdowns with three interceptions, however the Colts went 0-3.
“The one thing that I’ve just loved since I was however old, playing this game and being now the coach, is I’ve been able to have some impact on the score,” Rivers mentioned this month on FanDuel’s “Up & Adams” present.
“That’s why I love coaching. Yeah, I’m not playing the game — it’s about the boys — but you have an impact on the score. You are involved in the game.”
Buffalo fired head coach Sean McDermott this week after being eradicated by the Denver Broncos within the Divisional Spherical of the playoffs — an additional time loss that featured a number of controversial calls by the officers.
The Payments made the playoffs in eight of McDermott’s 9 seasons within the function however by no means superior to a Tremendous Bowl.
“I felt like we hit the proverbial playoff wall year after year,” proprietor Terry Peguila mentioned at a press convention this week.
“I just sensed in that locker room, like, where do we go from here with what we have? And that was the basis for my decision.”
Among the many different candidates to interchange McDermott is Brian Daboll, who interviewed with the Payments on Thursday.
Daboll was the Payments’ offensive coordinator from 2018-21 — Allen’s first 4 seasons — and has been credited for his function within the quarterback’s improvement.
The Giants fired Daboll in November after almost 4 seasons as their head coach, throughout which he went 20-40-1 with one playoff berth.
Payments offensive coordinator Joe Brady and Colts defensive coordinator Lou Anarumo have additionally interviewed for Buffalo’s head coach opening.
