TEAM USA PRESIDENT: Bill Polian: Polian gets the nod because he is the best executive in pro fooball for over a decade. He built the Bills into the powerhouse that they represented the AFC in the Super Bowl four years in a row. He built up the expansion Carolina Panthers from the ground up, and helped the Panthers secure a berth in the 1996 NFC Championship. Currently, he has helped build the Indianapolis Colts into the winningest team of the most recent decade. Polian is the logical choice to oversee TEAM USA.
TEAM USA VICE PRESIDENT OF FOOTBALL OPERATIONS: Bill Parcells: Who else would you want to help build any team from scratch? Parcells has an eye and a knack for building winning programs. Look how he built the Giants in the 80s, translating into two Super Bowl titles. From there, he headed to New England and took over a 1-15 franchise. He turned the Pats around and in four years had them back into the Super Bowl. After leaving the Patriots, he turned his attention to another struggling, 1-15 franchise: The New York Jets. He got the Jets to the AFC Championship two years later. After an absence from the NFL, he returned to resurrect the Cowboys and took them to the playoffs his first year on the sideline. Parcells finally settled in as a VP of Football Operations for the Miami Dolphins. The Fish finished 1-15 the year before Parcells arrived, and they finished 11-5 and back in the playoffs his first year there in 2008. The bottom line is that if you want to start or rebuild your team, then Parcells is the guy you want behind the scenes.
TEAM USA HEAD COACH: Bill Belichick: It took me about .003 seconds to figure out who would coach this team. Parcells tabs his old coaching comrade to pilot this Dream Team. Who else would you pick? Belichick is the only choice. You could make a case for the following: Bill Cowher, Mike Shanahan, Tony Dungy, Mike Holmgren, Jon Gruden, Sean Payton, Jeff Fisher and or even Tom Coughlin, but all of them can't matchup to Belichick. He is the best coach in the NFL hands down, and there is no one else close to him right now in the league. Belichick would be able to command the respect of this collection of players, and somehow he would get the Dream Team to buy into the team concept. As far as his coaching staff, one thing you can't have is too many chiefs and not enough indians. You couldn't have some type of "Dream Coaching Staff" because it just wouldn't work out well- too many egos involved. Just let Belichick assemble his usual suspects: Charlie Weis on offense, Romeo Crennel on defense, and coaches like Pepper Johnson and Dante Scarnecchia amongst others. In any event, you would feel pretty comfortable with Belichick at the controls of the Dream Team.
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