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This is something we won’t need to worry about for eight months or so, but I wanted to discuss it now while it was still fresh. Three pretty unique coaching situations have popped up in the NFL in the last couple of weeks. While each one is different, they all share similar elements. I’m talking about Seattle, Dallas and Indianapolis. All three are playoff teams, and all three have made moves that could undermine their coaches in the future.In Seattle, Mike Holmgren is the ultimate lame duck. He has announced that he will return, but just for one year. It seems to me that his team would find it pretty easy to quit on him if things aren’t going well given that they know his days are numbered.

Dallas has never made any secret of the fact that Jason Garrett is the next coach, but they have cemented that reality by making him the highest paid assistant in the league with a salary that is almost the same as head coach Wade Phillips. After an embarrassing playoff exit Phillips is on thin ice, and now the future coach will be right there breathing down his neck. The same thing is set to happen in Indianapolis, where Tony Dungy has decided to return for another year. He doesn’t seem totally committed to the move, and assistant Jim Caldwell has been named the next head coach already. In both of these cases, it would be pretty easy for the team to divide – if you don’t like what mom is saying, go ask dad. Egos could be in play, and power struggles would seem inevitable if things start to go off the tracks.

In all three cases I am wondering whether this is a legitimate concern, or whether I am over-thinking things. We have seen cases every year where coaches are all but done going into the season. Romeo Crennel and Tom Coughlin both fit into that category this year, and look what happened to them – one won ten games, and the other has his team in the Super Bowl. The difference in these cases, though, is that the teams have gone a step further and made the future clear. I think that if you let spoiled athletes know that change is definitely coming, and tell them what it looks like, it would be easy for them to quit on the present in favor of the future. For that reason, I will be watching these three teams closely next season.

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