Former Indianapolis Colts and Detroit Lions head coach Jim Caldwell informed pressreporters Tuesday that he doesn’t strategy to pursue another head-coaching chance in the NFL.
The 68-year-old Caldwell, who accepted a position with the Carolina Panthers as a senior assistant, stated he doesn’t “plan on being a head coach from this point forward” in his profession.
“Right now, the just task that I’m worried about is the task I do here, right here and now,” Caldwell stated Tuesday. “I’m not anxious about the future or anything else.”
Caldwell took the Colts to a Super Bowl in his veryfirst season at the helm in2009 He won a title as the Colts’ assistant coach in2006 Caldwell likewise won a Super Bowl in 2012 with the Baltimore Ravens, where he served as offensive organizer.
Caldwell has had simply one NFL task consideringthat being fired by the Lions in 2017; he invested the 2019 season as an assistant with the Miami Dolphins. Caldwell said he talkedto for numerous openings in the last coupleof years priorto brand-new Panthers head coach Frank Reich, with whom Caldwell worked in Indianapolis, brought him aboard in Carolina.
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“When I didn’t get a head-coaching task,” Caldwell stated, “I rightaway sort of altered the strategy in terms of what I was looking for next. I understood I was at the phase where I desired to be back in the structure someplace.
“I did have some chances to kind of appearance at, and I was pleased when Frank called.”
Caldwell, who is Black, likewise attendedto the absence of training variety throughout the NFL.
“When you appearance at the numbers, they speak for themselves,” Caldwell said of the league’s record for hiring coaches of color. “There’s been volumes and volumes of