BoDog Sportsbook and Casino has posted odds on who will be the coach of the Atlanta Falcons for their first game in the 2004 season. Current coach Dan Reeves is listed as the 3/1 favorite at BoDog.com to return as the coach for the first game next season. Bob Stoops is in the running at 6/1 and a trio of talent including Dennis Green, who boasts a 97-62 career NFL coaching record, Jimmy Johnson, who led the Dallas Cowboys to back-to-back Super Bowls, and Kirk Ferentz, the current Iowa NCAA coach, are seen as other likely candidates (all listed at 8/1) should Atlanta feel the need to make a move for the next season.
At 65/1 Sanders is ... the field's most surprising addition. Other notable possibilities include LSU coaching sensation Nick Saban 10/1, Steve Spurrier, who is facing his own coaching woes this season in Washington at 20/1, and Tom Coughlin, who guided Jacksonville to a 72-64 record from 1995-2002 at 12/1.
"He has absolutely no idea of what it takes to be a head coach in the NFL," said Kansas City Chiefs general manager Carl Peterson, who has hired three coaches during his 14 years with the team. "I find it incredulous that anyone would give any credence to that."
Cleveland Browns president Carmen Policy, who was general manager in San Francisco when Sanders helped the 49ers win the 1995 Super Bowl, said, "I have trouble envisioning him showing up and sitting in a dark room scanning film and going through the drudgery and hourly commitment of being a football coach."
"He's got a lot of skills as far as leadership goes, and I'm sure he assumes that carries over into the coaching ranks," former New Orleans Saints general manager Randy Mueller said. "I just don't think it's a realistic possibility for his career right now."
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At 65/1 Sanders is ... the field's most surprising addition. Other notable possibilities include LSU coaching sensation Nick Saban 10/1, Steve Spurrier, who is facing his own coaching woes this season in Washington at 20/1, and Tom Coughlin, who guided Jacksonville to a 72-64 record from 1995-2002 at 12/1.
"He has absolutely no idea of what it takes to be a head coach in the NFL," said Kansas City Chiefs general manager Carl Peterson, who has hired three coaches during his 14 years with the team. "I find it incredulous that anyone would give any credence to that."
Cleveland Browns president Carmen Policy, who was general manager in San Francisco when Sanders helped the 49ers win the 1995 Super Bowl, said, "I have trouble envisioning him showing up and sitting in a dark room scanning film and going through the drudgery and hourly commitment of being a football coach."
"He's got a lot of skills as far as leadership goes, and I'm sure he assumes that carries over into the coaching ranks," former New Orleans Saints general manager Randy Mueller said. "I just don't think it's a realistic possibility for his career right now."
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