The last we’ve seen of Mike Shanahan, he was struggling to make the Washington Redskins a contender. He had a beat up QB and an owner who didn’t trust his judgement. Since his departure from the team, Shanahan has been fairly quiet with very little interest in him and no teams making him their head coach. He’s finally broken his silence when speaking to students at a HS and said that while he has been studying the game more, he wants to return to coaching… under the right conditions of course:
“You go 18 hours a day for 40-something years, and then you got a year and a half to two years where you feel like you got the time to do whatever you want to do, I still study the heck out of football. I actually have more time. I study more football now than I actually did before.”
“It’d have to be the right situation, for both sides — ownership and myself,” he said.
Head coaching jobs are hard to come by, but its obvious Shanahan is a winning coach. With the right team and owner, I do believe he can make a team a contender. It’s hard to do your job when no one believes in you and without support.
(H/T Denver Post)