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Originally Posted by carcosa
I could see a guy like Manning being competitive enough to want to prove himself as a great coach. But I agree he's more likely to go into TV.
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I'd give it a couple of years before he saw what the rest of the coaches in the NFL are doing and just decided '!@#$ that - I'm out'
Spurrier was the best example of that you'll ever see. Kicked ass in college, went to the pros and when the rest of the NFL had coaches working 80+ hour weeks, he said 'nah, I'm rich and like to golf; I'm not doing that...'
Guy kept working 40 hour weeks and got strafed because he just wasn't going to put in the work. After a couple of years, he realized that he just didn't feel like putting in the hours it would take to be good so he went back to college where he could work less.
Manning would do the same. That's why Gruden's going to fail - there's no way he's going to outwork Andy Reid after being out of the game for a decade; I just can't see him getting that edge back.
The guys that coach in this league are different animals, man.
Now one person who I could weirdly see being a coach after he retired is Tom Brady. And it's not because of the money - it's because Brady doesn't seem to WANT a life outside of football. Brady would come coach 80 hours/wk because it's just what he loves to do. I don't think that's how Manning is wired.