Doug Pederson‘s fit with the Eagles unraveled quickly, following Philadelphia’s 4-11-1 season. Despite leading the Eagles to their first Super Bowl championship three years ago, Pederson is without an NFL gig at the moment.
But the five-year Eagles head coach is not planning a lengthy hiatus away from the game. The 53-year-old coach wants to land a second head coaching position soon.
“The competitor inside wants to continue to compete,” Pederson said during an appearance on 97.5’s The Anthony Gargano Show (via NJ.com). “Hopefully, I get an opportunity to lead another football team and do the same things again and learn from the last five years — what a great teaching moment for me.
“I always talk about how we learn from failures and different things like that. I don’t want to say that this was a failure, but at the same time, I want to learn from the last five years moving forward in my next opportunity.”
Although the Pederson-Carson Wentz era ended badly, with the injury-stricken 2020 team running aground, the Eagles went 42-37-1 during this partnership. Last season dragged down Pederson’s win percentage considerably, however, and he and GM Howie Roseman‘s relationship soured. Pederson discussed an offensive coordinator position with the Seahawks earlier this year, but the team went in another direction.
Super Bowl-winning coaches have been given second- or third-chance opportunities in recent years. Mike Shanahan landed in Washington after taking the 2009 season off, while Jon Gruden signed a monster contract to return to the Raiders. Mike McCarthy‘s Cowboys route, after the ex-Packers HC sat out the 2019 season, appears to be the path Pederson is aiming to take. Pederson, however, won a Super Bowl without his starting quarterback and did so without a dominant defense. It will be interesting to see how these accomplishments, along with the 2020 debacle, will be viewed by other teams when next year’s coaching carousel starts.
“I’ll be defined in Philadelphia for my wins and losses,” Pederson said. “Obviously, the championship is huge. But for me, I feel like if I get another opportunity, I want to do it again. I went to two Super Bowls as a player in Green Bay, and then obviously now being a coach in Philadelphia, and so three Super Bowls, and when it gets in your system like that, it’s just hard to turn that off.”
I believe 14 attempts have been made by SB winning coaches to duplicate the feat with a second team. None have been successful. Good luck to any owner that hires Pederson.
Usually that’s after a long tenure tho. Doug is pretty early in his HC career. Theoretically he could coach for another 15-20 years. Gruden has a chance to do it. Albeit not with that current squad but still.
I don’t expect the Bears to win a SB and that’s where I peg Doug to go when that buffoon is jettisoned out of the Windy City.
Doug seems like a good fit in Chicago. Exactly the kind of uninspiring hire to lead them to mediocrity that they love.
water is wet
Hey that’s mine line lol
Hopefully if he does he won’t be stuck with a GM like Howie Roseman
Chip Kelly got another chance after ruining the Eagles so Pederson probably will too.
The Eagles are the designated recycling bin for coaches. Andy Reid, Ray Rhodes, Rich Kotite, Marion Campbell, Dick Vermeil and Mike McCormick all used Philadelphia as a pit stop during their coaching tenure.
In a business of being hired to be fired, the exact same could be said for any other team in the league.
Don’t know if I’d call the 13 years Reid spent in Philly a “pit stop”
Not a recycling bin either as those are 1st time NFL head coaches.
I’d take a chance on Pederson before I’d hire some one-year-wonder coordinator, although I suspect a lot of his early success was really due to Frank Reich. The Eagles were decimated by injuries the last two years, thus ultimately leading to the perfect storm that took place between head coach and GM.