Being an NFL head coach is massively stressful, if you’re set up for life from playing there’s no reason to do that to get paid less than what you did for playing. Most coaches are like former backup QB’s for that reason, they didn’t make enough to be set and have to actually work for a living and being a coach is their best career path since their only work experience is playing football.

Not a soccer expert but I think you’re underestimating how tactically complex football is in comparison and how hard it would be to just jump straight into being a head coach with no coaching experience. I would never in a million years offer an NFL HC job to someone with no coaching experience no matter how great of a player he was. You have to understand EVERYTHING to be a HC, not just your own position. I’d offer a great QB like Peyton a QB coach job on the spot but there’s no reason for him to get paid peanuts for doing that when he can just sit on the stack of money he already got paid and get paid millions more to do a glorified live stream for ESPN.

Cowboys-Steelers IV. Giants-Jets

Vikings against anybody but Vikings-Bills would be cool while we’re both 0-4. Would be like the oft discussed hypothetical Red Sox-Cubs world series while they were both still cursed.