Ranking 32 NFL head coaches based on presidential potential

26. Ben McAdoo – New York Giants

Ben McAdoo would be a runaway No. 1 if the top qualification for being president was looking like an extra from every Dodge Ram commercial ever. George W. Bush pulled off that magic once, but lightening ain’t striking twice. The big knock on McAdoo is that, when you’re only mark in the coaching ledge is a preseason game, it’s pretty tough to gauge what you’re presidential attributes would be.

What we do know about McAdoo, based on what we gleaned from his previous stint as offensive coordinator with the Giants, is that he harbors both good and bad tendencies. The fact that the Giants have been one of the better offensive teams in the league, for instance, shows McAdoo has a knack for talent management and strategy. At the same time, New York offense has a bad habit of becoming exceedingly predictable as the season goes on, thus leading to more hardship later in the year.

What the latter part of McAdoo’s brief resume shows is a troubling propensity for sticking relentlessly to one course of action and rarely, if ever, wavering. He may not be a statue unwilling to budge out of his box, but it’s going to take a little bit of force to get him to do so. That’s not an especially redeeming quality for a president. Perhaps, like a young Richard Nixon (that’s probably a bad example) or Marco Rubio (okay, that’s even worse), McAdoo needs to spend a few years out in the political wilderness to truly be taken seriously.

Next: No. 25 Doug Pederson