2025-26 NFL coaching carousel thread

[outofplace]

Isn't that what they want though? To never bottom out and always be in the mix for nine or 10 wins and a playoff game? It's sort of admirable they're not tanking, b/c there are no guarantees they'll find their QB. But it is a purgatory.

That may be what they want, but it shouldn't be.

 

[LanceyHoward]

Fassel: Never got another shot after revolt in DC
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What was the revolt in DC?

 

[wicked]

What was the revolt in DC?

The fans trashed Dan Snyder for even thinking of hiring Fassel, so he showed them who was boss and went and hired… Jim Zorn.

 

[DanielSimpsonDay]

What was the revolt in DC?

Jilted by Redskins, Jim Fassel vows to someday get another job

The fan base freaked when they heard Fassel might be the guy. Snyder's rabbit ears picked up the chatter and changed his mind at the last minute to...Jim Zorn.

Fassel had pretty much been blackballed by that point and he was probably only getting a shot because he was a name Snyder recognized.

 

[Liut]

I hear nothing about the Arizona job. Who, in their right mind, would accept it?

 

[PCLoadLetter]

I hear nothing about the Arizona job. Who, in their right mind, would accept it?

I assume they are waiting until every other team makes a hire so they can get the leftovers on the cheap.

Forgive me for being cynical, but I would bet they hire Vance Joseph while they struggle with no QB and little talent. Once they find a QB, Bidwill will fire Joseph and hire someone he’s a little more comfortable showing off at the country club.

 

[DanOregon]

I don't think the Cardinals gig is that bad. They had the worst injury situation in the league this year. Grab a bridge qb from somewhere, try and find another Darnold situation maybe?. Grab your qb in the draft in 27. The biggest red flag is the division. Going against Seattle, SF and LA six times a year?

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

Bidwill would do well to wash his hands of any football decisions, make that a selling point and also tout the new facilities they have coming in a couple years.

Still wouldn't be enough to land a truly great candidate, imo, but wouldn't hurt.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I don't think the Cardinals gig is that bad. They had the worst injury situation in the league this year. Grab a bridge qb from somewhere, try and find another Darnold situation maybe?. Grab your qb in the draft in 27. The biggest red flag is the division. Going against Seattle, SF and LA six times a year?

You pretty much wrote the counter to your thesis. Which coach in his right mind is going to go to Arizona if he has other options? Same for a QB. Darnold at least established himself in 2024 as a B-level starter who didn't have to take a toxic gig just to have a starting gig. And the Cardinals just spent seven years digging deeper into the quicksand with a QB selected no. 1 overall, so why do we think they'll get it right in 2027? And then like you noted, there is the division. That's a murderous climb even if Stafford retires.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Jilted by Redskins, Jim Fassel vows to someday get another job

The fan base freaked when they heard Fassel might be the guy. Snyder's rabbit ears picked up the chatter and changed his mind at the last minute to...Jim Zorn.

Fassel had pretty much been blackballed by that point and he was probably only getting a shot because he was a name Snyder recognized.

Fassel got blackballed almost the moment he left the Giants. He had a ton of interviews right after that and obviously didn't get any of those gigs. I think the story was he was sick and didn't interview well and should have just sat out that cycle. He seemed to think Ernie Accorsi hda a lot to do with blackballing him. There were also rumors his divorce was distracting him. Which it should! But you can't be distracted in the NFL.

 

[DanOregon]

I just meant that the division is probably the toughest thing to overcome. If you flipped the injury "luck" the Cardinals had with the Seahawks this year, it would be a very different story.

 

[Chef2]

I would love to take credit for this, but I can’t,

Phillip Rivers withdraws from Bills coaching search.
First time he’s ever pulled out of anything.

 

[DanielSimpsonDay]

Fassel got blackballed almost the moment he left the Giants. He had a ton of interviews right after that and obviously didn't get any of those gigs. I think the story was he was sick and didn't interview well and should have just sat out that cycle. He seemed to think Ernie Accorsi hda a lot to do with blackballing him. There were also rumors his divorce was distracting him. Which it should! But you can't be distracted in the NFL.

...and additional rumors that his divorce was due to a hedonistic lifestyle, during which he may have gotten a little handsy with the wrong woman.

 

[micropolitan guy]

I would love to take credit for this, but I can’t,

Phillip Rivers withdraws from Bills coaching search.
First time he’s ever pulled out of anything.

Yeah, and he didn't know much about protection, either.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I would love to take credit for this, but I can’t,

Phillip Rivers withdraws from Bills coaching search.
First time he’s ever pulled out of anything.

Mrs. Rivers: "I never thought I'd see the day."

 

[wicked]

...and additional rumors that his divorce was due to a hedonistic lifestyle, during which he may have gotten a little handsy with the wrong woman.

Jim Fassel is the last guy I’d envision as a swinger/Playboy type.

 

[MarkWatney]

Jim Fassel is the last guy I’d envision as a swinger/Playboy type.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Thoroughly dull fact: my dad grew up in the same neighborhood in Anaheim as the Fassels. I believe he was friends with Jim’s older brother. (Another friend from the neighborhood: Bobby Hatfield of the Righteous Brothers.)

 

[Dog8Cats]

I see where you're going here, but Tomlin is a much harder worker and better coach. McCarthy was a coatholder.

I recall that some ESPN analysts whom I respect (Dan Orlovsky, Ryan Clark) frequently saying, in McCarthy's final season or seasons as Cowboys head coach, he was the fourth-best coach on staff (behind .... T1. OC, DC, STC). Also saw a televised profile of McCarthy that really made me think he's much more enamored with having the status of head coach than having to do what a successful head coach does.

 

[Inky_Wretch]