Another NFL coaching carousel has come and gone. This season may have been one of the most surprisingly eventful of the past five years and led a handful of league sources to joke that we are never again to predict that a coaching cycle will be a snooze. Not in this modern climate which, motivated by the unfathomable chaos of college football, allows for more callousness and less loyalty than ever. Despite the lack of Big-Chair-Ready, play-calling offensive coordinators, this carousel provided a spark in different ways. Three of the league’s most tenured coaches were either fired or walked away on their own accord.
This created mass market chaos, the heroic wooing of several big-time candidates and situations where, down to the last moment, some candidates who got jobs were wondering whether the constant upheaval would yank the rug out from underneath them.
