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Black Monday NFL 2025

Chargers fired OC Greg Roman & OL Coach Mike Devlin while the Eagles fired OC Kevin Patullo.
 
Sex Machine Gun said:
Seeing Harbaugh to the Giants being bandied about this evening as a done deal so that's one big name down. The Giants are going to be a problem.
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deal is imminent and is reportedly in the 5 years, 100 million range and he will bring OC Todd Monken with him.
 
this feels like a game changer like when Coughlin was hired in 2004. Hopefully has those same results.
 
Keep in mind no head coach has ever won a Super Bowl as the head coach of two teams.
 
Jaguars are moving on from DB Coach Ron Milus (previously the DB Coach with the Raiders in 2021 and Colts 2022-2024).

The KC Chiefs have also let go of their RB Coach, WR Coach, and ADL Coach Alex Whittingham (who's going to Michigan).
 
I have decided I want Mike McDaniel. I think he got fucked over big time by things out of his control. We give him a talented QB who doesn’t have a jelly brain and weak body and I think we can cook.
 
BruiserBrody said:
Packers DC Jeff Hafley has emerged as a frontrunner for the Miami Dolphins HC job. He appears to be the leading candidate for the job.
(Per Tom Pelissero)
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I wish him well but I'm ok with Green Bay cycling through def coordinators until they find one that can manage and motivate for an entire 60 (or more) minutes.
 
ESPN ticker is showing that Kevin Stefanski is the new HC for the Atlanta Falcons
 
yep he kept making Allen turn the ball over can’t have that.
 
To be fair for a defensive coach to be giving up 30+ every playoff loss gets old (even with the patchwork defensive roster). We 100% needed change but keeping Beane makes no sense. Not sure who they even hire at this point.
 
I'm probably wrong but this seems like more coach firings/resignations than usual. Which is not to say there's some left wing conspiracy or whatever.

I wonder if there's something of a hive mind ripple effect, similar to MLB teams making deadline trades at increasing rates to keep up appearances. Harbaugh is already off the shopping rack. McCarthy would make a lot of sense in Pittsburgh. After that there's a lot of openings but not necessarily a lot of qualified coordinators, college sweater vest people, retreads, etc to go around. Kinda seems like a willful carousel.

I'd wonder how fans of these teams can keep supporting them but, then again, I'm still a Brewers fan.
 
Zetterberg is God said:
To be fair for a defensive coach to be giving up 30+ every playoff loss gets old (even with the patchwork defensive roster). We 100% needed change but keeping Beane makes no sense. Not sure who they even hire at this point.
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a lot of top offensive minded candidates are still out there who would like the opportunity to work with Allen but outside of McDaniel or i apologize for invoking his name here, McCarthy, they are limited in experience.

going back to the defense first CEO type hire feels like what you just got rid of.

this isn’t an unusual amount of job openings for the NFL, the uniqueness here is that a lot of the names that got fired/left had a lot of name value so it seems more heightened this year but teams are more cognizant that when a voice in the locker room isn’t working anymore, it’s time to move on which is the apparent case with Baltimore and Buffalo especially when they still have a “top tier” QB.

Must be nice to be a fan of a franchise that understands change is a positive thing when it gets stagnant.
 
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Definitely agree we need an offensive mind. I'd be ok with McDaniel but Beane needs to either swing big in FA or finally nail a receiver in the draft.
 
Zetterberg is God said:
Definitely agree we need an offensive mind. I'd be ok with McDaniel but Beane needs to either swing big in FA or finally nail a receiver in the draft.
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seems lot of people are already banging the drum to bring Daboll back.

it wouldn’t be the first time a franchise brought back a popular coordinator to replace a failed head coach.
 
Change can be, and often is, positive. Change for change's sake and little else doesn't seem to be working as well for Atlanta, the Raiders, etc.
 
I probably would have been good firing McD after 13 seconds. It's been 4 years of the same old in the playoffs since then. I will always appreciate what he did to break the drought, change the culture etc. but at a point you can't keep wasting Josh's prime years.

I think I'd be ok with Daboll as he did work well with Josh.
 
Would you like McCarthy if he doesn't go to Pittsburgh?
 
I think so. His greatest success (a Super Bowl win and several NFC title games) came in a northern climate. Success with two all time great QBs, experience that may be helpful with Allen. It could eventually end poorly (like almost every coach ever) as his conservative second-halves could end up losing games...there's also some benefit of the doubt to be given, too, for just one example: while it shouldn't have come down to an onside kick at all, Brandon Bostick botched it himself and, otherwise, Green Bay has yet another SB.

Cold weather. Regular season and, most important for Buffalo at this point, playoff success (inc winning 4 straight on the road to win a Lombardi). Track record with quarterbacks. Yeah, I think it'd be good for Buffalo to at least interview him, if not outbid Pittsburgh if they show interest too.
 
he was also very good at bending the knee for Jerry Jones and enjoyed as much success you can get in Dallas.

With Beane inexplicably getting a promotion on top of being a generally poorly regarded GM, how important is it to him that his first HC hire will be deferential to him.
 
The law of sports averages states that it can't be much worse than the Giants.
 
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