Evaluating the hiring process for NFL head coaches and GMs with Amy Trask, Domonique Foxworth & Joe Barry
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 12 January 2022
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Where do we look for NFL head coaches and GMs? What qualities should the candidate possess? Robert Mays begins exploring those questions with former NFL executive and current analyst for CBS Sports, Amy Trask. They discuss the business side of finding a GM, the importance of collaboration and her experience with the Raiders. Then, former NFL player and current ESPN writer and commentator, Domonique Foxworth joins the show to talk about how head coaches set the culture within a team. Finally, Packers defensive coordinator Joe Barry explains why he knew early on that Mike Tomlin, Sean McVay and Brandon Staley would be successful head coaches.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.5 | The Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:17.8 | The Athletic Football Show is presented by State Farm. |
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| 0:21.3 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. Today is Wednesday, January 12th. I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:27.5 | Really fun show for you guys today. I've wanted to do this for the last few weeks when we were kind of |
| 0:32.8 | planning out what we want at the end of the season to look like. This is a topic I wanted to hit. |
| 0:38.5 | Where do we look for coaches? Where should we look for coaches in GMs? What should the pool of candidates look |
| 0:43.5 | like? What should the process look like? It's the holy grail of football questions, right? |
| 0:49.2 | If you could answer that succinctly, you would have the answers. You would have the biggest answer that you need |
| 0:54.9 | in finding success in the NFL. And we may not land on the answer today, but I wanted to explore it |
| 1:01.0 | at the very least. And I wanted to get several different perspectives to do that. We're going to |
| 1:06.3 | chat with Packers defensive coordinator Joe Barry a little bit later. Joe and I had a conversation |
| 1:11.1 | this summer when he was talking about assistance he's worked with, and the guys he knew would be |
| 1:16.8 | really good head coaches from the moment he met them. And he mentioned three names to me. |
| 1:21.6 | Mike Tomlin, Sean McVeigh, and Brandon Staley. So I wanted to expand on that conversation with |
| 1:27.1 | Joe and ask, what about those guys? |
| 1:29.0 | Why them? |
| 1:29.9 | What stuck out to try to see if there was maybe a little bit of a secret sauce between that |
| 1:34.1 | group that we could tap into? |
| 1:36.2 | Dominique Foxworth from ESPN, who played several years in the NFL as a defensive back |
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