This week, Chiefs Wire's Ed Easton Jr. spoke with Super Bowl-winning coach and Tampa Bay Buccaneers Senior football consultant Bruce Arians.
In his interview with Easton Jr., Arians discussed his work with Novartis on its "Relax, it's a Blood Test" prostate cancer screening campaign. He discussed the importance of having veteran coaches on a team's staff and credited Kansas City Chiefs
head coach Andy Reid."So you see your doctor, you risk it, so you get screened every year, and you know my levels had gone up," said Arians. "Didn't think it was much. Found out it was, and we had a great doctor. Everything was fantastic, and for me, it's very personal."
Arians has spent a lifetime coaching, from college to the NFL, and he shared his opinion on which
staff in today's game he'd collaborate with if he were still active.
"Starting with Andy (Reid), for sure, but there are so many good young coaches right now. I'm a little concerned about the youth of some of these coaches because situational football is biting them in the butt right now; they haven't experienced enough of it and don't know how to find it," said Arians. "I think that I love that a couple of the young coaches hired veterans to help. I think Joe Brady's (Buffalo Bills) has a great staff of young and old, and I've always said: every young coach, get two old coaches, one on each side of the ball, that you can vent to, because you can't vent to a young coach. They go, "Hey," and go home and tell their wife. Then they tell everybody. But get two old guys you can lean on, because it's a hard job."
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