Coaching Confidential
  • Published: 15 November 2013
  • ISBN: 9780307719676
  • Imprint: Crown
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $37.99
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Coaching Confidential

Inside the Fraternity of NFL Coaches

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A behind-the-scenes look at the high-pressure lives of NFL head coaches, now in paperback

A behind-the-scenes look at the high-pressure lives of NFL head coaches

Coaching Confidential chronicles a year in the life of an NFL head coach. But not just one head coach. A composite portrait is drawn through interviews with at least 20 current and former head coaches (including Super Bowl winners such as Bill Parcells, Tom Coughlin, Jimmy Johnson, Tony Dungy, Sean Payton, Mike Shanahan, Dick Vermeil, Mike Holmgren, Brian Billick, and Joe Gibbs), taking us through the professional and personal challenges of the job. This book covers the draft, free agency, big trades, training camp, family crisis, player troubles, coaching relationships with members of the staff, coach-owner dynamics, rivalries, Xs and Os, the playoffs--all the way to the Super Bowl.
     Just getting to Sunday is almost a relief for NFL head coaches. It's during that three-hour window 16 days a year when they can simply concentrate on what they do best, which is trying to win football games. But the job is, of course, much more than that.
  • Published: 15 November 2013
  • ISBN: 9780307719676
  • Imprint: Crown
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $37.99
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About the author

Gary Myers

GARY MYERS started covering the NFL in 1978 and was in the press box at Candlestick Park for The Catch on January 10, 1982, as the beat writer covering the Cowboys for the Dallas Morning News. In 1989, he not only joined the New York Daily News, but also began a thirteen-season run as the inside information reporter for HBO's popular Inside the NFL. Myers has also hosted the YES Network's This Week in Football since 2002.

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Praise for Coaching Confidential

Praise for Coaching Confidential:
"Finally, somebody has written this book. Myers has cracked the toughest code: what makes these coaches tick, how they work, what they think." --Sal Paolantonio, ESPN NFL national correspondent
"Gary Myers has always been one of the best NFL insiders in the business. But as this book proves, if you thought you had all the inside information you needed on the players and owners and coaches he covers, well, think again." --Mike Lupica, New York Daily News