More Coaching Moves Coming?
There were 10 head coaching changes made league-wide after last season. People around the NFL expect far fewer switches this offseason but there still could be a few more moves to come even after today's dismissals of Jim Mora in Atlanta and Dennis Green in Arizona.
The Oakland Raiders have not said whether they will retain Art Shell and the Cleveland Browns' Romeo Crennel and perhaps the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' Jon Gruden could be in jeopardy of being fired. The New York Giants reached the NFC playoff with a record of 8-8 but a first-round loss in Philadelphia on Sunday might put Coach Tom Coughlin back in danger of being dismissed.
The Pittsburgh Steelers seem to expect their coach, Bill Cowher, to resign with a season remaining on his contract. The Dallas Cowboys are in the playoffs but their disappointing finish to the regular season has some in the league wondering if Bill Parcells will walk away from coaching again, and there have been persistent reports that Miami Dolphins Coach Nick Saban might consider a lucrative contract offer from the University of Alabama.
By Mark Maske |
January 1, 2007; 4:07 PM ET
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Posted by: What about Gibbs? | January 1, 2007 5:48 PM
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The mysterious "Cone of Protection" around Joe Gibbs continues, even though no other coach beside Coughlin has squandered more. Gibbs, who will be 67 next year, is so constitutionally incapable of coaching in the modern era that we're all going to have to wait til his team comes unglued next year before we get any relief. The WashPost's columnists are of course lack to excoriate the Hall of Fame Coach so they're picking on Al Saunders' playbook, or Cerrato's judgment; anything really except Mighty Joe. The tragedy, of course, all of the expensive "learning" Joe is undergoing will be lost because he is just too old for this business and will be gone back to Nascar within two years. Joe could resign, of course and save us all from his blundering, but there's nothing like a little hubris to convince a man he's right, when he's obviously wrong.