With just three weeks left in the NFL season, some teams are preparing to get ready for the postseason while some are trying to figure out if they should keep or fire their head coach, and three NFL teams have already fired their head man in the season the New York Jets, New Orleans Saints and Chicago Bears and there will be few teams that follow their lead after Week 18.
Here are five head coaches who should be on the chopping block in the New Year and why they must fire them before it’s too late.
This is an easy firing because it was supposed to happen by now, but the Jacksonville Jaguars still have decided to hold on to Doug Pederson until the end of the season, even though they have been one of the worst teams in the NFL.
When the 56-year-old head coach got to Duval County in 2022, he took the team to the playoffs and helped turn quarterback Trevor Lawrence into one of the best in the league in his second season, but since the conclusion of that year, the Jaguars have been and mess, and so has Lawrence.
Jacksonville currently sits with a 3-11 record but could find two more wins since they play the Las Vegas Raiders and Tennessee Titans, who are worse than them, but there is nothing that Pederson can do to save his job, and the franchise needs to go into a different direction before it’s too late.
The New York Giants must rip the band-aid off and fire Brian Daboll. Even though he had great success in his first season in New York two years ago, it has been a giant disaster ever since, and the team is only getting worse each week.
New York already parted ways with quarterback Daniel Jones about a month ago, and now they need to do the same with their head coach. There is no need to keep Daboll around so he can go 5-12 next year with a rookie quarterback and then get fired.
Both teams from the Big Apple should be looking for new head coaches this off-season, and let’s see which team gets the better head coach and turns around their team and NFL.
The Las Vegas Raiders made a mistake this off-season when they promoted Antonio Pierce from the interim head coach to the full-time man, and all it has done is backfired on the organization.
It doesn’t help that the Raiders have zero quarterbacks, and everyone they throw out each week is not even one of the 40 best in the league, but Pierce can’t be the guy to take the Raiders into 2025, and they need to find a new head coach that can help develop a young rookie quarterback.
Dallas should’ve fired Mike McCarthy at the end of last season after their epic collapse in the Wild Card round of the playoffs to the Green Bay Packers, but Jerry Jones gave him one more season, and even though quarterback Dak Prescott was lost for the season, the Cowboys are still one of the worst teams sitting with a 6-8 record.
There is no way Dallas can run it back with McCarthy next season because they still won’t have a chance to win anything in the NFC East. Just like the Giants, they will finish with a horrible record and fire their head coach anyway, so why not just do it now and get ahead of the game early?
Some reason some coaches are dying to want to coach the Cowboys, and I have no idea why, because you have to deal with Jerry Jones as your boss, but some coaches still think this is the best job in all of the sports because of the name, and it’s time to land a top head coach.
Jerod Mayo was handed the head coaching job after Bill Belichick was let go last off-season, and it was not the right move, and now the Patriots seem to be paying for it.
The 38-year-old head coach has taken on one of the best defenses in the NFL and has turned them into a group that has given up over 24 points in their last four games, and Mayo looks like he can’t coach late in winnable games.
New England should feel good that they have one of the best young quarterbacks in the NFL, rookie Drake Maye, but they need to find him an offensive-minded head coach to help take him to new heights in year two.
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