K.C. job a Dom deal?
Report: Ex-Panthers coach Capers is Chiefs' front-runner
Posted: Tuesday January 12, 1999 04:15 PM
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Capers is the front-runner to replace Marty Schottenheimer in Kansas City Rick Stewart/Allsport |
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The next head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs could
come from just about anywhere.
"I'm not looking necessarily for an offensive- or defensive-minded coach,"
president and general manager Carl Peterson said Tuesday. "I'm not looking
necessarily for a guy who's had NFL coaching experience. I'm not
necessarily eliminating a college coach."
While Peterson isn't tipping his hat, it looks like former Carolina Panthers coach
Dom Capers is the front-runner to replace Marty Schottenheimer, who
resigned after 10 years with the Chiefs on Monday.
The Charlotte Observer, citing an unnamed source, reported Tuesday
that Chiefs president/general manager Carl Peterson had multiple
conversations with Capers about the position.
Other candidates that have been reported include former UCLA coach Terry
Donahue and Atlanta
Falcons offensive line coach Art Shell. Peterson also met with Chiefs
assistants Gunther Cunningham, Jimmy Raye and Al Saunders, who have all
formally applied for the job.
"All I did with the three candidates from within our staff was give them a
little criteria, some questions I wanted them to think about," Peterson
said. "I'm going to meet with them today and probably later in the week."
Capers has strong ties with Peterson -- they worked together with the
USFL's Philadelphia Stars in the early '80s. Peterson was the Stars'
general manager and Capers coached the Stars' defensive secondary. Chiefs
director of player personnel Terry Bradway also worked in the Stars front
office.
Capers, 31-35 in four NFL seasons, was the 1996 NFL Coach of the Year.
Peterson offered no deadline for hiring a coach, but said he hoped to name
a successor to Marty Schottenheimer by the Super Bowl on Jan. 31.
"We that are in the game of football should always be aware of the good
coaches at all levels, the ascending coaches if you will. I have a list,
I've had one for years," said Peterson, who hired Schottenheimer in 1989
shortly after Chiefs' owner Lamar Hunt placed him in charge of one of the
NFL's most miserable franchises.
"There are some very talented college coaches out there. I know they're
very talented. I know they could be capable of leading the Kansas City
Chiefs."
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