Nothing will happen with Rivera until the ownership is settled, but the moment it is, he’s likely gone. No way he lasts past the next season unless they have some remarkable turnaround.
I understand the concept, but this seems to carry an assumption that an ownership change is imminent. I don’t think that’s the case.
I don’t consider this a surprise, personally. Yes, they were pretty bad this year, but he turned around a garbage dump of a team into a solid one, it went to two separate Super Bowls and won one of them. They are the current champions, at least for another few weeks. I was expecting him to stick around at least another year to try to right the ship.
The team officially announced that he will be back, nearly a week ago. That wasn’t a rumor, it was a team announcement.
And there are more than signals about retooling, he has fired a number of coaches already.
https://www.si.com/nfl/rams/news/sean-mcvay-los-angeles-rams-fire-multiple-assistant-coaches
The OC is already gone, though he left for another job, he wasn’t officially fired.
Ah, thanks. Must have missed those headlines. Yeah, calling it a surprise wasn’t really accurate…but I’d already created the section heading before I decided to throw them on the list. shrug
LOL, either way I do think it is worth mentioning, just for the fact that the Rams have done so poorly.
The Bears of course have won the title of the worst team in 2022 (as in, #1 draft pick), but they are in rebuild mode and that seems like a success more than a failure. Build a team to support the potential they have in their QB. Firing your head coach would sabotage that.
List me as surprised that Josh McDaniels isn’t on the hot seat, or Arthur Smith in Atlanta. Though maybe they’re also in rebuilding mode. (At least Atlanta could be seen that way, I have no idea what the Hell is going on in Vegas right now.)
Yeah, no one in Chicago is worried about Eberflus. The roster was intentionally terrible, and he did an admirable job with what he had. The culture is good and the staff appears to be good.
McDaniels like Eberflus is a first year coach. I’m not a McDaniels fan (who is?) but you really need to do something spectacular to get canned after one season. The Raiders won a decent number of games and were competitive against a few playoff teams down the stretch. He’ll likely be around for a few seasons and he’ll be given a chance to draft and develop a QB.
Agreed. Realistically, after what the Gruden/Mayock regime did to the team (with a lot of failed draft choices), and with them choosing to part ways with Carr, it’s likely to take another year or three for them to restock and be truly competitive.
OTOH, with an flaky and inscrutable owner, it’s hard to say exactly how patient they are going to be.
Like the Chargers, the Raiders are supposedly a cash poor team. They are still paying $10M/year to Gruden and will be for the next 4 years. McDaniels has a 4-year deal as well. Were they to fire him they’d end up paying 3 coaches big bucks.
I said earlier that teams being “too cheap” to replace coaches is usually fake news, but McDaniels hasn’t really been bad enough to make this a must-fire situation. Mark Davis is a weird dude, but he’s not erratic enough to can McDaniels short of something incredibly toxic popping up.
And, the Vikings fired their DC, Ed Donatell, continuing the trend of teams which lost last weekend, responding by firing a coordinator. Despite the fact that the Vikes were a 13-win team, the defense was awful (31st in yards allowed, 28th in points allowed).
Starting to see some hires…
Frank Reich is in as head coach of the Panthers. Can’t say it’s a bad hire, but I sort of wanted Wilks to get the permanent job.
Jets have hired Nathaniel Hackett to be their OC. I guess that means they’ll trade for Rodgers next… (sort of joking). As a sort of Jets fan, I’m ambivalent. Hackett’s had some success as an OC, but except for his Green Bay stint he was best at building up the running game, which isn’t exactly the Jets’ need at the point.
Breece Hall was a stud before he got hurt. I wouldn’t hate a run-oriented focus.
Few links for posterity.
This is interesting mostly because it seems to absolve Reich of any culpability for the trainwreck that became the Colts and their QB situation. He was unceremoniously dumped midseason and other than riding shotgun to Doug Pederson’s SB run with the Eagles he doesn’t have much of a resume. Steve Wilks’ lawyer is signaling that there might be a Flores situation brewing in the wake of this. A cynic could suggest that hiring Wilks to be the interim is a Rooney Rule hack. Were I a Panthers fan I’d be pretty unsettled by this whole process.
As a Bears fan I’m excited to think that Reich’s bad experience with Wentz and Ryan could be strong motivation to trade up for a rookie stud.
Another head scratcher, @Wilson was joking about Rodgers, but honestly what kind of maniac hires this guy for any other reason than to woo Rodgers to green light a trade? When you crash and burn like he did with what everyone thought was a pretty good roster on paper, you’d think he’d be toxic for a bit. But nope, dude fails right into a sweetheart gig with an up and coming team.
Everyone seemed to be treating him leaving as a foregone conclusion. He’s exactly the kind of retread that risk averse teams love to bring in, so him staying is a bit of a surprise. Unclear whether he’s deciding to withdraw because he wants to stay in Dallas or if there were no offers imminent. I suppose Dallas fans are marginally relieved, I’m sure this helps ensure another second or third place finish in the NFC East.
It’s intriguing that Greg Roman has left the Ravens, but it seems almost too perfect for him to go to the Bears. I’m sure the Bears would love to have him do for Justin Fields what he did for Lamar Jackson. But I’d be surprised that he would leave an OC position on a playoff caliber team to go to the team with the worst record in the NFL. Unless there’s something going on with him and Lamar (ala Kyler Murray), a step down like that doesn’t make sense.
Of course he might have to settle (and the money would be excellent, I’m sure) for the Bears OC if no team hires him as Head Coach.
It should be interesting to see how it plays out.
Of course, there is that whole Luke Getsy issue too.
I don’t think the Bears have made any indication they’re moving on from Getsy though. Maybe in a year if the offense doesn’t improve with a better roster.
Perhaps the Bears bring Roman is as just the run-game coordinator. He’s good at that. He couldn’t draw up a decent pass play design to save his life.
Yeah, I would love to have him as the run-game coordinator if he was interested. Doubt he would be, and Getsy’s run game was pretty freaking good behind a dismal line, so I’m not sure it’s a huge need. That said, I’m not writing the checks and more proven offensive minds are always wanted.
He’s gone from Baltimore because he’s proven to be completely inept at everything NOT directly related to the running game. This blog post gives a pretty decent summary of the turmoil there. It doesn’t seem like it’s an issue directly with Lamar, more that he seems like a guy who can’t get out of his own way and who would have been at home with offenses in the 1960s
Kellen Moore gets the blame for the Cowboys whimpering offense to end the season. McCarthy is gonna call plays, presumably there will be a new OC but looks like they won’t have the reins. I would not be excited were I a Cowpokes fan.
Interesting that both Roman and Moore’s departures are characterized as “mutually agreed upon”. I wonder what the motivation for this is both from the team and coach’s perspective. I assume it’s something to do with contracts and payouts, but these are always firings in all but name.
As was constantly scrolling on the chiron today during the games, Ryans seems like a fait accompli at this point in Houston. Now that the 49ers season is over, we can probably expect a formal announcement in a day or two. I wonder if the 49ers landed in the Super Bowl if that would have changed the math. He was drafted by the Texans and won the DROY award.
In Moore’s case, I suspect it was, at least in part, because he already had another job waiting for him: the Chargers are apparently hiring him as their new OC.
In my town, as soon as Dak got hurt they were running win/loss scenarios whereby the Cowboys might luck into the playoffs.
Payton to the Broncos rumors hearing up