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Martin Rogers
FOX Sports Insider
As much as this week’s spate of stunning, era-ending coaching shifts caused football fans to look backward and reminisce, Eric Mangini believes there is just as much reason to look forward.
What began with Pete Carroll moving out in Seattle continued with Nick Saban deciding 17 years of Alabama dominance was enough and wrapped up with Bill Belichick’s Patriots tenure ending after two-plus decades. It happened with remarkable speed and varying degrees of jaw-dropping surprise.
According to FOX analyst and former NFL head coach Mangini, however, the truly fascinating part lies not in what just happened, but in what comes next. For he refuses to believe that any of the three men have closed the book on their time in football, despite a combined age of 215 years.
“It has been a pretty amazing week; unprecedented in many ways,” Mangini told me via telephone Thursday. “But I’m really looking forward to seeing what happens now with all of them.
“If you were an NFL team that was looking for an edge, why wouldn’t you give Nick Saban’s people a call and see what he might be open to? Imagine what he could do for you around a draft. He knows so many of the players in the league already, or has coached against them.
“For as long as he’s been around, from an NFL standpoint, his perspectives would still be fresh. He would bring so much to be table, and I think he would find it hard to resist the challenge. We know he got frustrated with the transfer system and NIL and all that. But I can’t imagine him just settling down and playing golf all day.”
Regarding Carroll, who was steered out of the Seahawks coaching hot seat and into an advisor role, Mangini suggested that a switch back to the college ranks, where he led USC to a pair of national championships, could be a shrewd move.
After 14 years in Seattle, highlighted by a thumping triumph over the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII, Carroll’s time…
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