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The Tennessee Titans will have a new head next weekend. For one game, at least. Mike Vrabel told reporters Monday that he's stepping aside for Saturday's preseason game against the Chicago Bears in favor of assistant coach Terrell Williams.
"Terrell Williams will act as the head coach for Chicago starting on Friday," Vrabel said. "This is a great opportunity for him and for us and everybody involved."
So, why the switch? Vrabel's fine. He just wants Williams to have the opportunity to go through the process of being a head coach for an NFL weekend. This means setting lineups, managing staff and speaking with media — in addition to running the show on game day.
"I just think that him dealing with and talking with the [athletic] trainer ... just handling things with the roster and discussing those things with the assistant coaches and how we want to play the game — let him make those decisions in the game," Vrabel continued. ... "I do think it will be a great opportunity, well deserved. Just something that I wanted to do."
Vrabel is not going anywhere. He'll take on assistant coaching duties against the Bears. Defensive assistant Clinton McMillan will take over Williams' regular role of overseeing the defensive line. Williams, meanwhile, will be calling shots in an effort to gain experience as a prospective NFL head coaching candidate. He'll also gain exposure in a league that has a poor history of promoting Black coaches to management positions.
Williams, 49, has spent 26 seasons as a football coach, 12 of them in the NFL with the Oakland Raiders and Miami Dolphins alongside his Titans stint that started in 2018 as the team's defensive line coach. He was promoted to assistant head coach/defensive line coach this offseason and will now get a first-hand taste of head coaching in the NFL.
Vrabel, a former Patriots linebacker, isn't the first head coach to assign extra responsibilities to assistants during the preseason. His former head coach in New England Bill Belichick has made a practice of assigning play-calling duties to position coaches in preseason games. It has allowed Belichick to groom potential successors in the event that his coordinators leave for head coaching positions. It's unclear if Vrabel was inspired by Belichick. It is clear that he's taking the practice a significant step further.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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