# NFL Coaching Carousel: 2022-2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** football-nfl\ **Created:** [December 26, 2022, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-coaching-carousel-2022-2023/977134 "2022-12-26T19:21:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 58
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2023, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-coaching-carousel-2022-2023/977134/58 "2023-01-11T16:26:37Z")
I lean towards conspiracy theory. They were going to fire him this season no matter what, just like they fired David Culley last season. Unfortunately, Smith, like Culley before him, did a better job than they really wanted despite the poor win-loss record, so it came out looking worse than they wanted. People were saying almost exactly 1 year ago that Lovie Smith was being set up for a 1 and done. Actually, I did say that about 11 months ago: > [@2022 NFL coaching carousel](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-nfl-coaching-carousel/957096/133): > > So, another caretaker retread for the Texans that they’ll get rid of in 1-2 years. Great. The scuttlebutt last season (and the season before) was they wanted Josh McCown but that plan got torpedoed by the Flores lawsuit. I wouldn’t be shocked if they either went with another obvious 1 year hiring or went straight to McCown. Then again, Jack Easterby is out now and Caserio seems to have a bit firmer control, so maybe they’re actually looking for a real coach of the future this time. Seems to be mainly Cal McNair who is fighting against the better candidates and there’s not a lot of use fighting the owner on stuff like that. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-coaching-carousel-2022-2023/977134)._