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Ralph Vacchiano
NFL Reporter
This is the time of year when NFL owners get nervous. They begin to realize their teams have no hope. They watch the losses pile up. They see players start to rebel. And worst of all, they see their disgruntled paying customers stop filling their seats.
This is always when owners start to panic and talk themselves into abandoning whatever their plan once was. And even coaches who were promised they’d be safe for the rest of the season suddenly don’t feel safe at all. As owners start to get jittery, and listen to people tell them of better options, they’re often much more inclined in December and January to give in to their instincts to blow everything up.
Two NFL coaches have already felt their owner’s wrath this season. More are likely to feel it before this season is over. And once it ends, the floodgates could really be open.
So with time literally running out on some of them, here is the FOX Sports bi-weekly ranking of the seven hottest coaching seats in the league, heading into Week 13:
1. Doug Pederson, Jacksonville Jaguars (Previous ranking: 1st)
It is stunning, really, that the 56-year-old survived the bye week given the deteriorating circumstances with his team. They had lost four in a row, were blown out 52-6 by the Detroit Lions right before the break, and had scored just 13 points in the last two games.
So what is owner Shahid Khan waiting for? Why is he clinging to a coach that’s won just three of his last 16 games? Certainly, nobody around the NFL believes it’s because Pederson is safe. He is still a sure bet to be fired the day after the season is over, if not before. One theory making the rounds is that Khan wants to ride this stormy season out in hopes that his beleaguered team ends up with the No. 1 overall draft pick for the third time in the last five years.
That, the theory goes, will make the job more attractive to the coach he really wants to…
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Publish date : 2024-11-25 19:32:00
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