Dan Quinn stays, but Atlanta just fired their DC, OC, and ST Coach.
Marvin Lewis has officially endorsed Hue Jackson as his replacement.
Man that would be amazing. So much dong hanging.
Jay Gruden is giving a press conference now, so I guess he’s safe.
ESPN also reporting that the Jets are asking permission to talk to Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy.
If the Chiefs allow Bieniemy to take another job, they need to stipulate that their defensive coordinator (Bob Sutton) goes with him in a package deal.
As if a failed and fired coach’s opinion carries any weight?
AIUI, after this round of firings there are today zero black head coaches in the NFL. Not a good look; the Rooney Rule is going to get a workout.
Mike Tomlin might be surprised to hear that. I know I am.
Oh, right. He’s already overstayed his welcome too, though.
No he hasn’t. OK, so even if we go with the assertion he can’t beat New England, nobody else can, either. He’s been the head coach for 11 years and to date, through one major and one minor rebuild, has not yet had a losing season. Think that’s easy? Name the coaches with more than ten years’ tenure who can say that. Not even your boy Belechick can say that.
It has more to do with his team’s constant indiscipline, both on and off the field (wouldn’t Antonio Brown and Leveon Bell have made a difference yesterday?), leading to their failure to execute when it matters most. Tomlin’s teams are chronic underachievers, and at some point you have to wonder if that needs to be fixed.
Mike Tomlin is still the coach of the Steelers. There was a stupid parody account on Twitter suggesting he should be fired. The Antonio Brown situation doesn’t look good, but I highly doubt it Tomlin is going to be fired over it.
Is defense still a monolithic block, or is Burfict the far and away 1st pick by himself?
Burfict would be like the Todd Gurley of that league.
Burfict has never been arrested. He does his dirty shit ON the field (when he isn’t suspended).
Due to concussions, he’s probably done. The Bengals should move on from him at any rate. He’s just a guy out there now, completely ineffective.
No, he won’t, but that’s because of the value the Rooneys put on loyalty and stability in the org chart. The Brown situation is far from the only reason Tomlin *should *be fired, though; it’s just the latest example of a problem he won’t fix or even address.
He’s pretty close to leading the league in suspensions and fines, though.
I don’t think Vance Joseph was really the problem in Denver. I think it’s more that Elway is a bad GM.
I also hate how things like the coaching carousel bring out terrible think pieces. The WaPo had one about how the firings so far show that the NFL has a race problem. The whole thing reminds me of people who don’t care about football and couldn’t tell you the difference between a 3-4 and a 4-3 defense having strong opinions on Kapernick.
But the NFL does have a race problem in the coaching ranks.
Does it really? Or does it seem to have one now, since all but one of the African American coaches have been fired?
Something like 60 percent of the players are black. The coaching ranks are about as far from that as they have ever been, now almost as low as the front-office ranks.
The Rooney Rule was created for a reason, and that reason definitely still exists.
What’s the optimal percentage of black coaches? Is it also 60%?