Coaches Under Fire
Because of the relatively short schedule of the NFL season, it is extremely rare to see any coach get canned before the season even ends. With that said, however, there are many coaches who are doing nothing to help themselves once the season is over. Here is a short list of which coaches should be feeling the heat the most after seven weeks of play.
Marvin Lewis - Outside of one playoff season, what has Marvin really brought to the Bengals? The discipline needed for the team hasn’t been there since day one. The team has become a league-wide laughingstock off the field and mediocre on it. With two great receivers and a top-five quarterback, it is a shame that the team itself is sitting at 1-4 (1-5 if the Jets score holds up today) and out of the playoff picture. Lewis would need a miraculous turnaround at this point to keep his job.
Cam Cameron - Maybe it isn’t fair to put an enormous amount of blame on a first-year coach arriving at a bad job. But the team is winless and doesn’t look like it is going to get much better soon. And even if they get the top pick in the draft, Cameron’s bungling of last year’s pick still remains vividly in my mind. No one in their right mind put Ted Ginn Jr. in the top-ten. But Cam, apparently wooed by what Devin Hester has done for the Bears, saw an opportunity to add a special teams playmaker and took it.
Look Hester is a needle-in-a-haystack type player and if your only explanation to drafting someone higher than they should have gone is that you think he might be like Hester, you made a pretty bad decision.
Tom Coughlin - Tom always seem to be on the hot seat, doesn’t he? Even though the Giants have won five in a row, it doesn’t help Coughlin’s job status much for the future. The team needs to progress past a first-round exit in the playoffs. They need to show they haven’t tuned Coughlin out completely. And they need to keep winning.
Can they keep doing all these things? Maybe, they do play in the NFC and they do have a pretty good offense and defensive line.
For now, those are the only three coaches in serious trouble. The majority of teams in the NFL are doing pretty well or average right now. After another six-seven weeks, however, I expect there to be more names to add to this list.