Eric Taylor (Friday Night Lights)

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Title=Eric Taylor

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Name=Eric Taylor
Profession=Head coach of the Dillon Panthers
Actor=Kyle Chandler

Eric Taylor is a fictional character in the drama television series "Friday Night Lights" played by Kyle Chandler. He is introduced as the head coach of the Dillon High School football team, the Dillon Panthers. At the end of the first season he accepts a position as the quarterback coach at the fictional Texas Methodist University (TMU), where he had served as an assistant coach. After the birth of his second daughter he leaves TMU in the second season to return to Dillon and once again coach the Panthers.

Plot

The varsity football coach of the Dillon Panthers. Under immense pressure to succeed, he is constantly conflicted between what is right and what will win. He doesn't seem to approve of his daughter and Matt Saracen, the team quarterback, dating. He has accepted a coaching job in Austin at fictional Texas Methodist University (TMU), and the team gets the news right before the championship game.

In the second season, Taylor returns to Dillon after his replacement is fired for poor performance. He quits his job at TMU because of the strain the long distance is putting on his marriage.