It is Super Bowl week, when a lot of media personalities do a lot of talking about the state of the NFL. The big game on Sunday, February 11, is a natural point of focus, but so is the NFL draft. The NFL coaching carousel is another very big topic, with head coaches and coordinators being hired left and right. Lincoln Riley has sent a lot of elite offensive players to the NFL. He also spent the last year working with Kliff Kingsbury in tutoring and guiding quarterback Caleb Williams. In this week of talking, Riley decided to make the rounds with big talkers such as Colin Cowherd. Riley offered his view of how Kingsbury will fit in Washington with the Commanders under new head coach Dan Quinn.
One thing which is interesting and notable about Kliff Kingsbury is that while he has been an NFL head coach and a college head coach, he has never been an NFL offensive coordinator. Obviously, this is something which has to be kept in context, given that Kingsbury did call offensive plays for the Arizona Cardinals. He simply did so as head coach, not a coordinator. Nevertheless, Kingsbury has never had a set-aside role as an NFL play-caller which is separate from his role as a head coach. Washington will give him that new role, where he doesn’t have to lead a whole team, just call plays for an offense.
Here’s Riley’s talk with Colin Cowherd on Kingsbury and other subjects, including Caleb Williams:
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