Bill O’Brien was the first. Dan Quinn below.
There’ll be more.
The line of fire for NFL head coaches is densely populated. O’Brien, who is also general manager of the Texans, lasted four games, all defeats. Quinn had one more week in Atlanta, and one more defeat, before he was convicted.
Who’s next? And, in a season interrupted by a pandemic, is it fair to fire coaches who in the last week alone or two have reached the point of preparation for the normal season?
Probably not. Again, the team sees two numbers first: Ws and Ls. Actually, Ls then Ws.
Hear what Arthur Blank of the Falcons, and one of the league’s enlightened and fair highs, said about the firing of Quinn and general manager Thomas Dimitroff:
“It’s an effects company and I owe it to our enthusiasts for putting the most productive product imaginable in the field. We have invested every resource imaginable to win and will continue to do so, but the effects of recent times do not meet our populars or what I promised our enthusiasts. “
There are few in New Jersey, Detroit, Jacksonville and Denver.
ADAM GASE
That’s how bad he went with the J-E-T-S: it’s a smart thing that enthusiasts allowed at MetLife Stadium.
These Jets are compared to the 1996 team that opened 0-8 and went 1-15 with Rich Kotite. The jets’ two most talented players are already in exile, the Jamal Adams protection, who escaped the Big Apple and was distributed in Seattle, and The Offensive Part of Le’Veon Bell, who became entangled elsewhere this week.
Gase has won few friends, and appears to have been unable to help Sam Darnold, the franchise’s quarterback, who is prone to injury. and sing Darnold’s delight after 3 years.
Unless Lawrence shoots Peyton Manning and stays at Jets school.
“At the end of the day, offensively, we haven’t done a lot to impress anyone right now,” Gase said. “We have a lot to fix and a lot of things to do better. We have to train, better, we have to play better, and it’s like a total team.
PATRICIA MATT
Strange statistics tell the story here.
The Lions are the team of the moment in league history to open 1-3 after leading at least 10 losing issues. Patricia is 2-15 in her last 17 games and 10-25-1 in two seasons and more. the first team in NFL history to lose six consecutive games in which he led with double digits.
He has a high-quality field marshal at Matthew Stafford and some of the receivers. But his strength, the defense, was, well, offensive.
In an apartment where Green Bay and Chicago have done well with their training replacements, Detroit will almost make a replacement soon.
DOUG MARRONE
Marrone received a bad deal from the start, and the Jaguars got rid of much of the available skill, especially in defense. The Jaguars have lost 4 in a row and allowed 30 or more problems in them, the third streak of its kind in the franchise history.
There is little veteran leadership, his initial victory over Indianapolis proves a coincidence, and a brutal expansion of the calendar awaits November/December.
All this indicates a maximum of 4 productive victories and a new formation in 2021.
VIC FANGIO
This is complicated because the Broncos showed an improvement with Fangio last season, then lost star supporter Von Miller and a lot of other players in September. Drew Lock, who was scheduled to return Sunday after a shoulder injury, may be the last quarterback in denver’s franchise when Peyton Manning finished his career.
Fangio’s honesty and freshness are welcome in a paranoia-filled training world, but his in-game decisions and time control have been poor, things a coach with such a long resume in the NFL shouldn’t have a problem with.
Several other coaches have groups that stay corporate at the back of the leaderboard. Some perform lower, such as Dallas in its first season with Mike McCarthy and now without his star quarterback; Minnesota with leader Mike Zimmer and a disturbing habit of outperforming war parties while losing; and Philadelphia, where Doug Pederson’s roster may be with the maximum injury in the league.
Some head coaches don’t have enough skill at their disposal: Anthony Lynn with the Chargers, where 2020 is all about QB Justin Herbert’s progression; Ron Rivera in Washington, where the disorders are also far from the field; and Joe Judge in his first season as leader of the Giants, who have a clever thing: the Jets are worse.
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