

While you wait for your next turn, you can trade draft picks, and even trade your team's players for other team's players. During the draft, you have a set amount of time to pick a player to play for your team, and once your time is up or you pick a player, the clock starts over for the next team to pick. In other words, the subjectively "bad" teams draft first, and the "good" teams draft after. The higher draft pick you have in the draft is based upon how well your team did the previous season the worse your team did, the better your draft pick, whereas the better your team did, the worse your draft pick. You can also trade players with other teams, so long as you do so before the trade deadline.Īt this point, there is a large portion of the game specifically dedicated to the NFL draft. The goal here is to make your team players have the highest ratings possible, which will increase your chances of winning games, as they will have better skills. Each player has their own rating for their position, which is the indicator for how good of a player they are. These are players that are available to be signed. For instance, if you run a "west coast" style offense, then you will want to hire coaches that also specialize in west coast offense in order to enhance your team's cohesion and let your players become better.Īfter this period, you will want to hire agents. The main goal in this process is to try to hire the best coordinators and coaches available that fit your coaching philosophies. These staff members include your offensive and defensive coordinators and position coaches. Finally, you view offers from different teams and select one of them, successfully starting your head coaching career.Īs the head coach in the off-season, your first duties include firing and hiring new staff members. You then select a team that you'd like to interview with and you answer a series of questions this determines your coaching skills and philosophy. In career mode, when you create a coach, you first select whether you used to be an offensive or defensive coordinator this determines your base stats. It has a career mode, where you create your own coach, an online mode, and a quick play mode where you select a team from the NFL and play against someone else online or via local network. NFL Head Coach is an in-depth football simulation game focusing entirely on the coaching and management process.
