Adam Schefter addresses Dan Orlovsky NFL coaching rumors
Former NFL quarterback Dan Orlovsky is currently paid to talk about NFL teams for ESPN. Perhaps soon Orlovsky will be coaching an NFL team, instead.
Rumors have circulated in recent days that Dan Orlovsky could leave his job at ESPN as an NFL analyst to get into coaching this offseason.
ESPN insider Adam Schefter was asked about Dan Orlovsky and the possibility of him getting into coaching Friday afternoon on The Pat McAfee Show.
“Dan’s been talking to some teams and seeing if there’s something that interests him and is worthwhile for him,” Adam Schefter said. “I think Dan aspires to be a head coach in time. And that’s what he’d like to do. And so he’s been talking to people to see if there’s a spot that would work for him.”
Orlovsky appears to enjoy his job at ESPN and makes an excellent living talking sports. However, according to Schefter, his real passion is being a part of an NFL franchise again.
Orlovsky spent more than a decade as a quarterback in the NFL, with the majority of that time coming as a backup.
Schefter believes there is a chance he continues on as an NFL analyst if the right opportunity does not come along.
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“It’s not automatic. He does a great job on TV and obviously could stay in TV and do that for the rest of his career, if that’s what he wanted,” Schefter said. “But I think, at his core, he misses being a part of a football team.
“And if the right football team came along and spoke his language and said the right things and presented the right opportunity, I think he’d go be a quarterbacks coach, with the idea that he’d start trying to work up the coaching ladder, in time.”
As Schefter said, Orlovsky’s path to being an NFL head coach, which is reportedly his goal, will likely begin with him being an assistant somewhere and seeing how that goes.
“I think he’s 41. I think he’d like to be a head coach, like a lot of people in the coming years,” Schefter said. “And at some point in time he’d like to start moving up that career. So again, we’ll see how he handles it, his life, whether he wants to do TV or coaching.
“But it sounds like he’s going to have opportunities to join football teams if that’s what he wants.”