How many times have you yelled out to your favorite team's Head Coach?
User Rating: 10 | NFL Head Coach PS2
Have you ever wondered what it is like to step in the shoes of a Head Coach? Look at the cover for just one second, and you're going to see Pittsburgh Steelers' Head Coach Bill Cowher. Just as in real-life coaching, you won't want to start your career on gameday, and it's a year-round job, not just in the fall. You will have the dual role of Head Coach-General Manager for your team. Your head coaching career begins when you customize your coach. The player was an offensive (or defensive) coordinator of the Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh Steelers when the FMV plays. After that, your job is to customize your coach. After you customize him, you choose any team you wish for job offers. You'll receive offers from five teams - including the team you've chosen. Get answers right, and your stats go up. Before you select a team to start your career, and call the owner, you're going to watch another FMV about adjusting from a coordinator to Head Coach. Unlike real coaching, you don't have to wait for a current team's Head Coach to retire or switch teams before you can take over as coach. Your first day is just eight days after the Super Bowl had been played, February 13, 2006. Your first task is orientation, a meeting with the owner about your new job. In the interview, unlike real-life, the owner talks to you. Unlike the Madden games, you're not playing in the game. Instead, you call the shots. However, like the Madden games as well as college teams, players near the Head Coach will have no surnames posted. There is no in-game commentary, because it mimics a real-life sideline setting. Just like coaching a game in real-life, there is only the public-address announcer, which sounds like Pittsburgh native Bill Hillgrove. He is a play-by-play commentator for the Pittsburgh Panthers' football and basketball games as well as the play-by-play announcer on radio broadcasts of the Pittsburgh Steelers. It takes you six hours to reach training camp. At the start of your career, it's the beginning of great things to come. You're going to have to win over an extensive period of time - and a lot of games - to become the Greatest Head Coach of All-Time. The music in the game is that you've heard a couple of times if you have ever turned the lame, licensed music featured in Madden NFL 2006.
As you progress, you will unlock FMVs called Sabol Moments. Hosted by NFL Films' president Steve Sabol, he will tell you about a specific event.
When it's time for the NFL Draft, you will hear Draft guru Mel Kiper, Jr.'s, voice about the great players available. In your first year, the Houston Texans receive the No. 1 draft pick. Unlike the real-life NFL Draft, you don't have to wait hours for your turn to pick. When a CPU team drafts, it has forty-five seconds to make its choice. On your turn, you've got five minutes to draft a player or trade the pick. In the real Draft, however, you'd better hope that the player you want to choose is available, since teams have fifteen minutes to do the same options as in NFL Head Coach: draft a player or trade the pick. Really good players, such as the Heisman Trophy winner and All-American players, get picked in the Top 5. Even though the players are selected by different teams, they recite the same information about that player.
Have a good time running with the big dogs, because there are more than 1300 other players, and thirty-one other teams.
