{"id":19243,"date":"2013-03-03T12:05:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T17:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19243"},"modified":"2014-05-09T14:23:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T19:23:17","slug":"the-brief-lives-of-fireflies-and-nfl-offensive-co-ordinators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/03\/03\/the-brief-lives-of-fireflies-and-nfl-offensive-co-ordinators\/","title":{"rendered":"The brief lives of fireflies and NFL offensive co-ordinators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Viking_Head.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Viking_Head\" width=\"80\" height=\"81\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10672\" \/>As a professional career, being an NFL assistant coach requires a lot of flexibility and the ever-present risk of job upheaval. Among NFL assistant coaches, <a href=\"http:\/\/min.scout.com\/2\/1271188.html\" target=\"_blank\">the offensive co-ordinator<\/a> is an especially short-tenured position:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When they talk about the average career of an NFL player being somewhere plus or minus three years, it comes as a shock to many casual NFL fans. To achieve that, for every Brett Favre, there have to be about 10 guys who only last one year. It\u2019s not an easy way to make a living. It\u2019s a hard reality to realize how brief so many NFL careers are.<\/p>\n<p>At times, doing some background research can glean surprising results. Starting from the premise that Bill Musgrave\u2019s offense is entering its third year, the thought of trying to compare the third seasons of other NFL offensive coordinators came to mind. Therein lay the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Being an offensive coordinator isn\u2019t an occupation anyone wants to have long-term in the same town. You rent. You don\u2019t own.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a job in which coordinators are happy to have at the moment, but it\u2019s not one he actually wants to keep. With the combination of head coaches being fired, offensive coordinators being forcibly pushed onto their own sword by a head coach looking to save his own job for another year, or a coordinator being successful and landing a head coaching job, the attrition rate among OC\u2019s is unsettling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After just two years in the job, Bill Musgrave is tied for sixth-longest tenure among NFL offensive co-ordinators. That&#8217;s an incredible rate of job turnover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a professional career, being an NFL assistant coach requires a lot of flexibility and the ever-present risk of job upheaval. Among NFL assistant coaches, the offensive co-ordinator is an especially short-tenured position: When they talk about the average career of an NFL player being somewhere plus or minus three years, it comes as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[126,179],"class_list":["post-19243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-nfl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-50n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19244,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19243\/revisions\/19244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}