Brad Childress keeps getting new jobs just so he can quit them
By Matt Conner
Former Kansas City Chiefs coach Brad Childress keeps lining up new jobs just so he can quit them within a day or two, the latest coming with the AAF.
Brad Childress does have a nice resume. I’ll give him that.
His incredible amount of meaningful experience as a football coach at the highest levels is always going to earn Childress a long look—perhaps even an interview or two—from a prospective employer. However at this point, Childress has also set up an impressive string of leaving those same jobs, and now it’s reached a ridiculous zenith—one in which the employer is silly for even hiring him in the first place.
On January 8, 2018, Childress announced his retirement from the game. As a 61-year-old coach, Childress sounded like a man weary from decades standing on the sidelines. He’d done his time. He should certainly have enough money. The next step was to wave goodbye to it all, and he did… for just over a month.
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In February, one of those friends came calling with an offer. Matt Nagy asked Childress to join him in Chicago as he took over the Bears head coaching role. Childress accepted and became a mentor to the former Chiefs offensive coordinator—this time as an “offensive consultant.” That role with the Bears lasted just under two months, until late April, when he took on his latest role as head coach with the upstart AAF (Alliance of American Football).
The AAF is a brand new football league intended to serve as a farm system of sorts for the NFL and Childress was one of several head coaching veterans to be a part of it. Mike Martz, Steve Spurrier, Dennis Erickson, Mike Riley and more are all a part of the league that kicks off this winter. Unfortunately now Childress won’t be a part of it. Why? No one is quite clear, but he officially resigned from his post on Thursday.
At this point, Childress is playing the role of Ben Wyatt on Parks and Rec, a city employee who keeps accepting an accounting job from the lovable Barney Varmn, only to walk it back the next day (or even the same day). Hirers, beware. If you want to bring on Childress, just know you need to have a back-up brought on immediately in case he gets cold feet.
Then again, he couldn’t even stay retired, so who knows what he will be doing next month?