Stafford draws up plays for daughter's flag football team — SkimNews
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- Matthew Stafford, the reigning NFL MVP, took over coaching his three daughters' flag football team in mid-April after a high school student coach dropped out, drew up plays on a whiteboard, and said the team won the championship.
- Morgan Moses (Patriots right tackle) said opposing parents joke his sons' youth team is "running NFL plays," while Bud Dupree (Chargers) founded the multi-age "BD Elite" program spanning 8U through 18U with the stated goal of helping players earn college scholarships.
- JJ Jansen (Panthers long snapper) called coaching his sons' baseball team his "greatest passion," scripting individual practices for each player, while Logan Cooke (Jaguars punter) said his Pro Bowl resume "means absolutely nothing" to the kids on his 5-year-old's T-ball team.
- Brian Hoyer, who played in the NFL from 2009 to 2023, now serves as offensive coordinator for the freshman team at Xaverian Brothers High School in Massachusetts, coaching his son Garrett as starting QB — and admitted sending Garrett on laps "Bill Belichick style" after a bad practice.
- Nick Mullens (Jaguars) initially told parents at his son's coach-pitch baseball games he worked for a "logistics company" to avoid making conversations about him, then conceded, "You've got to make stuff up as you go."
- Davante Adams said his 7-year-old daughter Daija resists his attempts to coach her in golf — "any time I jump in, they just want to go do something else" — while Matt Hasselbeck previously held the Xaverian QB-coach role when his son Henry was in high school before Hoyer took over the freshman squad.
Why it matters: The piece reveals a consistent tension these players describe: being a professional football player doesn't translate to youth-sports success, and several actively downplay their NFL credentials to keep the focus on fundamentals. The most concrete stake is time - Stafford, Hoyer, Dupree, and Jansen are investing significant offseason hours as coaches, and Dupree has built a multi-age pipeline aimed at college scholarships rather than just fielding his own kids' team.
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