Michael Vick, Brad Childress named coaches for Atlanta’s AAF team
By Matt Conner
The Alliance of American Football has a new team forming in Atlanta, Georgia, and Michael Vick will be coordinating the offense when play begins.
Michael Vick’s coaching career has found its next chapter.
The former NFL quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons and Philadelphia Eagles will return to the city that drafted him as the offensive coordinator for the Atlanta-based franchise in the upstart Alliance of American Football.
The Alliance will begin playing in the 2019 season immediately after the 2019 Super Bowl. A ten-week season will be played throughout the rest of winter and into spring before playoffs begin. Only two franchises, Atlanta and Orlando, have been announced, and former Kansas City Chiefs coach Brad Childress will be the head coach of the Atlanta team while longtime college coach Steve Spurrier will be in charge in Orlando.
Childress has had a rather unpredictable offseason with a rumored retirement then interrupted with an announced partnership with Matt Nagy, who was leaving to coach the Chicago Bears. Instead of remaining on the Bears coaching staff, however, he’s now head coach of Alliance Atlanta. That makes three different team associations along with retirement in a matter of a single offseason.
As for Vick, he was a temporary assistant coach with the Chiefs last summer as a recipient of the Bill Walsh diversity coaching fellowship. Vick left the Chiefs to take a role with FOX’s NFL coverage as an analyst.
Vick played in the NFL for 13 seasons and finished with a career record of 61-51-1. He threw 133 career touchdown passes and rushed for another 36.