Nearly all of the NFL‘s 32 head coaches have kids, but can they trust their league rivals to babysit them?
Taking a break from scouting the next generation of talent at the 2025 NFL Combine, several coaches, including Nick Sirianni and Sean McDermott, revealed which rival head coach they’d trust to babysit their kids.
Nick Sirianni, Sean McDermott, Other NFL Coaches Answer Which Rival They’d Let Babysit Their Kids
CBS reporter Aditi Kinkhabwala asked a group of rival head coaches who they’d trust to babysit their kids. Most of them picked their former or current colleagues, with Buffalo Bills head coach McDermott siding with the Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh.
“Good blend of fun, discipline, and toughness. Yeah, good life lessons in that,” McDermott said about Harbaugh.
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Carolina Panthers head coach Dave Canales picked the Las Vegas Raiders’ new head coach, Pete Carroll, while Todd Bowes picked Aaron Glenn and spoke very highly of the New York Jets head coach.
“Aaron Glenn. Very good friend, I know him well. He would take good care of them,” the Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach said.
Atlanta Falcons coach Raheem Morris said he would go with Matt Lafleur because he trusted the Green Bay Packers head coach’s wife.
Meanwhile, freshly crowned Super Bowl champion Sirianni named the three people he has previously worked with.
“Jonathan Gannon, Shane Steichen, and Kellen Moore. That was easy.”
Sirianni’s Eagles thrashed the Kansas City Chiefs 40-22 to win their second Super Bowl championship. They finished the season 16-1 after a Week 5 bye and a 2-2 start. It marked the 43-year-old’s first Super Bowl trophy, and he now has an impressive record of 48-20 in three seasons with the Eagles, including two Super Bowl appearances.
Sirianni, Other NFL Coaches Pick Dan Campbell as Strongest
During the aforementioned CBS interview, Sirianni and others also debated which coach would notch the most reps on the 225-pound bench press. The coaches came to a consensus with a few outliers.
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“Off the top of my head, I want to say Dan Campbell,” said Bowles. Bowles wasn’t the only coach betting on Campbell. Morris, Sirianni, Canales, and McDermott all agreed that the Lions’ head coach would prove to be the NFL’s strongest head coach.
Campbell, a former NFL tight end with a strong stature at 6’5”, 265 pounds, is an obvious choice for the strongest NFL coach
“I gotta go with DeMeco [Ryans] still,” said Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton, who coached Campell during his playing career. “I’ve been with Dan long enough to know there is an injury risk.”
“DeMeco’s not lifting anymore, man. DeMeco’s a family man. There’s no chance,” said Morris.
New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel was also named a potential competitor to Campbell by his peers, while Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay was named a “sleeper.”