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| January 21, 2017 05:53PM | Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 26,186 Status: HOF Inductee |
Nomadic Wade Phillips excited about Los Angeles
Alden Gonzalez
ESPN Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES -- Wade Phillips lost two seasons of high school eligibility because the rules of Texas stated that those who switch schools must sit the following year out. He was a coach's son, born into a life of constant movement and unstable employment.
From there, he became a coach himself. It began at the University of Houston as a graduate assistant in 1969. Then the carousel began: West Orange (Texas), Stillwater (Oklahoma), Lawrence (Kansas), Houston, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Denver, Buffalo, Atlanta, San Diego, Dallas, Houston, Denver and, finally, Los Angeles.
"It sounds bad, but I think it’s like an Army brat," Phillips said about the nomadic life of an NFL coach. "You learn to adjust to new places, new people."
Wade Phillips is with his 10th NFL franchise, employed in his 12th different city. AP Photo/David Zalubowski
Phillips, now installed as the Los Angeles Rams' defensive coordinator under new coach Sean McVay, realized that with his first NFL job as defensive line coach for the then-Houston Oilers from 1976 to 1980. His father, the late Bum Phillips, was head coach, and over the last three years of that stretch, the Oilers went a combined 32-16 and were eliminated in the playoffs by eventual Super Bowl champions each time. Still, the entire coaching staff was let go.
"After that, I just said, ‘Hey, you just have to do the best that you can do,'" Phillips said. "'That’s what this life’s about.’"
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Alden Gonzalez
ESPN Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES -- Wade Phillips lost two seasons of high school eligibility because the rules of Texas stated that those who switch schools must sit the following year out. He was a coach's son, born into a life of constant movement and unstable employment.
From there, he became a coach himself. It began at the University of Houston as a graduate assistant in 1969. Then the carousel began: West Orange (Texas), Stillwater (Oklahoma), Lawrence (Kansas), Houston, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Denver, Buffalo, Atlanta, San Diego, Dallas, Houston, Denver and, finally, Los Angeles.
"It sounds bad, but I think it’s like an Army brat," Phillips said about the nomadic life of an NFL coach. "You learn to adjust to new places, new people."
Wade Phillips is with his 10th NFL franchise, employed in his 12th different city. AP Photo/David Zalubowski
Phillips, now installed as the Los Angeles Rams' defensive coordinator under new coach Sean McVay, realized that with his first NFL job as defensive line coach for the then-Houston Oilers from 1976 to 1980. His father, the late Bum Phillips, was head coach, and over the last three years of that stretch, the Oilers went a combined 32-16 and were eliminated in the playoffs by eventual Super Bowl champions each time. Still, the entire coaching staff was let go.
"After that, I just said, ‘Hey, you just have to do the best that you can do,'" Phillips said. "'That’s what this life’s about.’"
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