Wade Phillips would love to once again coach in the National Football League, but no staffs are making calls to him in order to do so, and he thinks he knows why.
Phillips’ first year in the NFL was 1976 with the Houston Oilers, and he didn’t win a Super Bowl until 40 years later. After helping the Los Angeles Rams to a Super Bowl appearance in 2019, Phillips did not get any NFL jobs for the 2021 or 2022 seasons.
Phillips, the head coach of the XFL’s Houston Roughnecks, thinks him being 75 is the reason for that.
“I hate to say it, but I think it’s age,” Phillips, 75, said, via the New York Post. “It’s hard to beat my record as a coordinator, so there’s got to be another reason. But that’s OK. I’m glad to be doing what I’m doing.”
The Roughnecks are 2-0 on the season as Phillips’ gets to be a head coach for the first time since he was the Houston Texans’ interim head coach back in 2013. He was winless in that stint.
His Week 1 victory with the Roughnecks was his first as a head coach since 2010 with the Dallas Cowboys.
Wade went 82-64 as a head coach for six teams and he was on the sidelines for three Super Bowls.
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“I’m not mad because I’m not in the NFL,” Wade said. “I’m glad I got an opportunity.”
Dating back to the 2020 season, the Roughnecks are yet to lose a single game in the XFL. They are a favorite to win it all.
