Exactly two months from today, one or more NFL head coaches will learn that their services no longer are required.
This year, the number will likely be a lot more than one.
So for our midweek submission to SportingNews.com, we take an early look at the teams that might be looking -- and where they might look.
SportingNews.com: 2010 coaching carousel could be a wild ride
Posted by Mike Florio on November 4, 2009 12:14 PM ET
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ATTENTION WAYNE WEAVER:
You know it's time for the Jaguars to go in a different direction. I know you're a nice guy and beloved around Jax as an humanitarian, which you are, but it's time to get serious about the future of this team. I know you owe Del Rio some money if you relieve him of his duty, but seriously, I think you're going to eat just fine if you have to pay him.
It's time to get a consistent winning team here. Primarily an offensive minded coach who know how to utilize MJD and the weapons around him before time runs out and the people totally stop supporting this team. Mediocrity football is for the birds. The fans deserve championship football NOW!!!!!
If the Pack misses the playoffs (likely) I would love to see them find a new GM/Coaching Staff - they can take every Olineman on the roster not named Sitton & Lang with them on the way out. Jon Gruden sounds good to me - he'd have a younger more talented QB to work with than he had in Gannon/Garcia.
In MN Childress goes from being on everyone's short list of coaches most likely to be out of a job, to the coach most likely to get a new contract. THANK YOU #4!!!
lol at the Jags!
Shanahan is going to Big D. Count on it.
As much as I like Lovie, he needs to go.
All we ever do is bring in mediocre players. Bring in "franchise" quaterback with no wideout would have been same result if we kept Orton! Their loyalty to progressing "potential" stars is 1 out of 10 hit or miss.. and we've been missing all these years. Look at the wideout position of recent.. Mark Bradley, Bobby Wade, Justin Gage... only one had star potential and that was Bernard Berrian (which of course, we let go in free agency).. and all Devin Hester can do is go deep and draw pass interference with his speed. Signing old battled wounded Schaffer/Pace/Tinoisamoa were busts. C'mon Bears time to move on. Lovie is too loyal to his friends, thats why our defense has been horrible after we let Ron Rivera go.
Let's talk coach firings at the end of the year, i'll start it off with a nice list I think should be gone, feel free to shut me down.
Tom Cable (though it doesn't matter cause Al Davis will ruin whoever goes there)
Dick Jauron (mistakes mistakes mistakes)
Mangina (he's not a good coach when will people begin to see this)
John Fox (stick with delhomme all year is absurd, too many running backs not a good enough qb)
Jim Zorn (wasn't ready to be a head coach, got rushed into it)
Wade Phillips (only if the cowboys don't make the playoffs or lose in the first rd)
Jack Del Rio (how MJD touches the ball 8 times in a loss blows my mind, use your best players and he does not)
theres my list disprove or agree i'd love to hear some feedback
Seriously, how the hell isn't Dick Jauron not on there. He's on the second hottest seat in the league and has the 2nd worst coach in the history of the game.
This article does not make any sense to me.
If, and I do mean if, the Cowboys don't bring Phillips back, you can look for Jones to go in house for his replacement, and elevate Jason Garrett to HC. Jones has a history of promoting those he is comfortable with(Dave Campo), and I think this is really what he wanted to do when he hired Phillips. Phillips wouldn't have made the move to be defensive coordinator, and Garrett was already on board, so he flipped them from his original plan.
Florio, I agree with you that Gruden would make sense due to his history with the Packers and the fans would receive him well. But I'd also like to interject that Cowher woul make a lot of sense in GB too, with that historic franchise and a promising young 3-4 defense he'd see a lot of similarities to the pre 2005 Steelers.
I just can't see Jeff Fisher going to the Dallas Divas. As a Titan fan, I'm not proud that our owner is Bud Adams. But it's WAY better than some of these others out there.
I think it would be a HUGE mistake to let Fisher go. But he himself may want to leave. And frankly, with VY as the QB the owner wants, I wouldn't blame him.
No one's going to Washington. Why would they?
Shanny to Dallas...maybe. san Diego?
No one's going to Washington. Why would they?
Shanny to Dallas...maybe. san Diego?
Knowing Al Davis, I expect him to make a play for Gruden in the off-season. That doesn't mean it'll work, of course...having already escaped from the madhouse, I can't imagine Chucky wanting to dive back into it when it's even crazier like it is now. But I do expect Davis to try.
Raiders beat writer Jerry McDonald said yesterday in his weekly chat that the single biggest thing Davis could do to electrify and re-energize the fanbase would be to re-hire Gruden. But then he also said something to the effect that the odds of it happening approach 0 percent.
I've read several places that Davis has always liked the idea of Kevin Gilbride as head coach. He also has a close relationship with Jim Harbaugh at Stanford, but I can't imagine Harbaugh would want the job now that he'll probably have other offers coming his way. Another possibility is Rick Neuheisel out of UCLA. Again, though, I can't see any of those guys who have potentially better prospects wanting to come and try to succeed in such a dysfunctional organization. Al has wrought himself quite a miserable situation.
Interestingly, SJ Mercury reporter Tim Kawakami has said Mike Martz is a possibility, simply because he's probably desperate for work.
Jim Fassel is still apparently interested in the job. I expect the next coach to be him when all is said and done.
The Bucs will fire Raheem Morris and be a major player for Jon Gruden. Oops. Forgot, they had him and fired him for going 9-7 two years in a row after previously winning the Super Bowl. Hey, Tony Dungy may decide to unretire. Whoops. The Bucs fired him, too, didn't they? I think the reason was he could only get them to the NFC Championship Game.
Dick Juraun is goign to get fired, but Al Davis and Ralph Wilson are basically the same person, except Ralph is cheaper.
I'd be surprised if one of the Coaches with Rings doesn't sign a deal before the season ends. Maybe they won't announce it publicly, but I've got to think you want to lock in someone before making a change and realize the coach you really wanted already has a deal somewhere else.
Yeah, Kevin Gilbride to Oakland starting February, 2010.
He would probably make it a full season.
if the Raiders make a change, the job surely won't be filled by anyone whose name currently would sound familiar to the average football fan.
Read this now and remember it later.
Marc Trestman. Especially if he wins the Grey Cup this year in Montreal.
There will be 7 head coaches fired between now & Feb. Cowher goes to Carolina, Gruden to Dallas, Shanahan to San Diego, Holmgren to Jax. The other 3 or 4 slots will be filled by young OC's & DC's. Ferentz from Iowa will be offered job due to great job at Iowa. You can bet Snyder will pick some moron to coach the Skins. Any owner who pix recycled losers like Gilbride, Fassel, are nuts.
GBP -- While Cowher would be good in GB I think it's pretty much a forgone conclusion he's headed to Carolina when Fox goes--if he wants to coach again.
Gruden would be OK too and wouldn't mind if the "Walrus" graced the sidelines again. That ain't gonna happen unless TT goes.
If MM goes & TT stays there should be a lynching in GB.. TT will hire some unknown nonbody and "develope" him into a coach. I keep trying to give him the benfit of the doubt but 2010 is his final chance with me if he's still there. Not that that's going to have him shakin in his boots or anything.