Former Eagles HC Doug Pederson Plans To Pursue Head Coaching Opportunities Next Year

Former Eagles HC Doug Pederson is taking this season off from football after parting ways with Philadelphia. However, he said recently he is still hoping to land another head coaching opportunity in the future. 

“The competitor inside wants to continue to compete,” Pederson said in a radio interview via Chris Franklin. “Hopefully, I get an opportunity to lead another football team and do the same things again and learn from the last five years—what a great teaching moment for me.

“I always talk about how we learn from failures and different things like that. I don’t want to say that this was a failure, but at the same time, I want to learn from the last five years moving forward in my next opportunity.”

He added the desire to win another Super Bowl after winning the first one in Eagles franchise history plays a big role in his desire to come back and be a head coach again. 

“I’ll be defined in Philadelphia for my wins and losses,” Pederson said. “Obviously, the championship is huge. But for me, I feel like if I get another opportunity, I want to do it again. I went to two Super Bowls as a player in Green Bay, and then obviously now being a coach in Philadelphia, and so three Super Bowls, and when it gets in your system like that, it’s just hard to turn that off.”