Daily News | South Jersey’s Dan Williams is a coach for Andy Reid, just like his dad was
“Wrap your head around this,” Ted Williams’ wife, Theresa , said. “He’s 26 and this is his third Super Bowl. OK? I mean, this blows our mind. At 26, he’s going to his third Super Bowl.”Dan Williams grew up in Sicklerville and didn’t play football until the eighth grade. He won the quarterback job at Timber Creek as a junior and led the Chargers to the state final in 2012. He set the state record for passing yards in a game and in a season as a senior in 2013.
That experience showed Williams the value he could bring without playing. He now had the bug to coach just like his dad. Reid hired him in 2019 as an intern after he graduated with a communications degree. Williams has been there ever since, working the same long hours -- 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. -- for the same coach his dad did.
“He’s a special child. You can raise them all to be disciplined. You can raise them all to have good character. You can raise them all to have a good work ethic. It doesn’t mean they’re going to do it. We always said the one attribute about him is that he never wanted to displease his parents. That was important to him.”
His father told himself that he would cry on the field if he ever reached the Super Bowl and he did when the Birds finally did in 2004. Reid teases the younger Williams that he must think reaching the Super Bowl is normal as he won his first championship just months after earning his master’s degree.His career, Dan Williams said, has been surreal. And it may not have happened had a coach decided to leave Green Bay. No matter who wins Sunday, Ted Williams said he can’t lose.
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