Adam Vinatieri
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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Uh, so the majority, it's funny you asked that. I had a special teams coach named Tom McMahon. He's, he's in, uh, he's with the Raiders right now. I love him. Great guy. One of my favorite coaches of all time. And he gave me the line. Hey, listen, we're going to give you the line of demarcation. You're going to tell me before the game. Hey.
what's your range what are you comfortable with whatever but he said but you do know there's no such thing as a line of demarcation right like it comes down to it and you tell me hey we're I don't know we're in San well prime example we were playing in San Francisco one day at one game and it was windier than crap that day and we warmed up both sides and we knew it wasn't a matter of distance it was a matter of what the wind was going to do and so I told him I said hey honestly going this one direction the other way we were we were good from
Six. win, I told him 50-51 is realistic, right? Anything outside of that, it's a crapshoot, right? Because the wind's just killing it, knocking it down, whatever.
He sends me out for, I think it was either 52 or 53, and sure as shit, I hit this ball, you know, and I put it out at the right post, and the ball went up, and it just kind of started fading and dying, and it fell a half a yard short in front of that left upright, and I said... 50, 51, it's good. 53, it's not. So I'm not giving you BS numbers. I'm telling you what it is.
But at that point, it was right before halftime, and they said, got to kick it, right? So I assume every time I go out there, even if I give them a line and they put me out for eight yards further, I walk out there with the thought and the anticipation that I'm going to drill this kick, even though it doesn't always work that way.
You know, it's funny you ask that. I do respect the crap out of special teams coaches. And the reason why I say that is, is each position coach usually deals with, you know, Hey, I'm a tight ends coach. So you got five or six guys, or I'm a receivers coach and I got eight or nine guys or offensive line or whatever. Special teams coaches deal with everybody on the team, except for,
quarterbacks and superstar running backs and number one receivers like everybody else is playing special teams so if you've got 54 guys on your team plus practice squad whatever right 52 you're you're really coaching 40 45 guys all the time so Their jobs are pretty difficult, and I think owners and GMs sit there and go, well, we need to have an offensive-minded coach or a defensive-minded coach.
I think special teams coaches can do a pretty good job because you can still have an offensive and defensive coordinator calling your plays and doing all that, and as the special teams coach, you're managing the team, right? It's more like a baseball manager than anything.
As fun as that would be, I don't think the major thing that would stop me from coaching at a big power five school in college would be the recruiting offseason. That's just too much. I understand what big time football is all about. I went through it for years. For 20 some years, right? So I understand the time commitment during the season.
It's the off season that I would be like, man, I'm not traveling all over this country every day for three or four or five months straight. So he has not reached out. He wants to come and consult and work with his kickers and do some of that stuff. The least he could do for you.
You know, I mean, maybe I've got a little bit of a little bit of knowledge that would help them guys out a little bit.
That's a good question because both surprised the crap out of me. I really thought that Bill would stick around for an NFL job. I mean, he's so close to the all-time winningest coach. I feel like he would want to get that record and beat Shula out for that record. But, you know, he... you know, I think he also wants the exact perfect situation, right? Hey, I want control.
I want to be able to be the head coach and the GM. You sit back and let me do my job and I'll win a bunch of games for you. And I don't know if he had the exact situation this last year. So I want to say there's probably some interest in him last year, but maybe just maybe he didn't like any of the situation. And, and, uh, I know Nick, Coach Saban's a very good friend to him.
They've both coached together a long time. And maybe maybe Coach Saban said, hey, coaching at that college level is pretty fun. So, you know, it did surprise me that he went there because I feel I felt like he was going to just kind of tread water this year and then get a head coach job in the NFL. But good for him. I'm sure I'm sure he'll make North Carolina and. who's an ACC team too.
So my son's got to play against those guys probably. And it's going to be, we'll see. We'll see. He might make that team be a playoff team before you know it, for sure.
I would think his recruiting ability and the people that want to play and people like myself who have been in the league would probably tell their kids, hey man, I want you to go there and learn from him because he's not only going to make you a better football player, he's going to make you a better man. He's going to teach you you know, all of the, everything that goes into it.
I think he's going to turn that organization upside down and make it really good.
You know, first time is always the best time. Nothing against number two, three, four. Like, those are all awesome. Trust me when I say that. They're all wonderful. But the first time that you get to the top of the mountain, there's nothing quite like that. And the fact that we were such huge underdogs that year, you know, going against the Rams, the greatest show on turf, and
and having to beat the Raiders at home and that snowball and, and beating Pittsburgh on the road being, I don't know, nine or 10 point underdogs. So we, we had an uphill battle that whole year. So that, that was pretty, pretty awesome. But I do say, you know, probably number two would be, would be when we won one with Indy because I,
You know, going through it three times before, it never, ever gets old. But being on a new team and being one of the few guys that have ever had a championship and watching, you know, 50 other guys that became your teammates and watching them win it for the first time and watching the tears and the emotion and all that stuff was pretty awesome, too.
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