Fire Brad Childress carlosfusa on 26 Jan 2007 12:25 pm
Vikings Have Great Coaching Choices in 2008
Assuming Brad Childress does not improve in his second year Minnesota Vikings owner Zygi Wilf will have some good coaching options. Next offseason, teams in search of head coaches could be choosing from a field that includes former Pittsburgh coach Bill Cowher, Tennessee’s Jeff Fisher, Chicago’s Lovie Smith, San Diego’s Marty Schottenheimer, maybe Bill Parcells and possibly even New England’s Bill Belichick.
Cowher is free to sign with any team after next season, one year after Pittsburgh did not offer him fair market value.
Fisher, according to a source, is not expected to get a contract extension with Tennessee, which would make him a free agent after next season.
Smith and the Bears have been talking, but nothing has materialized and there’s no reason for Chicago’s coach to sell himself short when he has a Super Bowl on his resume.
Schottenheimer and the Chargers are a divorce waiting to happen after San Diego offered its coach a $4.5 million contract that included a $1 million buyout.
Parcells is apt to return to coaching at any time, as his history indicates.
And maybe, most interesting, multiple sources around the league believe that Belichick’s contract, which does have three years remaining on it, is filled with mutual options that could allow him or the team to nullify the deal as early as next year.
