As the NFL season comes down the stretch, we will also see the business of football start to ramp up toward the usual offseason activities. Today we’ll look at one team that fired a coach and one team that has not been able to field a starting-caliber quarterback.
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There was a time in the NFL when it was unheard of to fire a head coach after one season on the job. Now that happens, it seems, annually. But a head coach firing before the end of his first season seems over the top. Yet that just happened for the third straight year. Last season the Broncos fired Nathaniel Hackett after 15 games. Even Urban Meyer, a train wreck with the 2021 Jaguars, lasted 13. But Carolina coach Frank Reich got to only 11 games before being dismissed by Panthers owner David Tepper last week.
