6 NFL Coaches On The Hot Seat After Week 10

The 2024 NFL season has already claimed a couple of coaching casualties after the Jets and the Saints opted to respectively part ways with Robert Saleh and Dennis Allen, but all signs point to at least a few other guys befalling a similar fate over the next couple of months.

It’s pretty clear which NFL teams don’t really have much to play for aside from a desirable draft pick now that we’re more than halfway through the season, and there are a number of guys coaching those squads who are feeling the heat based on what’s transpired so far.

Doug Pederson—Jaguars

The Jaguars lost their fourth game in a row with a 12-7 defeat at the hands of the Vikings in a contest where both teams were seemingly doing their best to lose thanks to the slew of turnovers and stalled drives that defined it.

Jacksonville was dealing with a downgrade at QB after Mac Jones stepped up to replace an injured Trevor Lawrence, and when you consider Pederson has failed to capitalize on the talents of the latter, the fact that the former failed to dazzle didn’t come as a huge surprise.

The Jaguars are 2-8, and at this point, it seems safe to assume they’re waiting for a lost season to come to a merciful end instead of throwing things into even more disarray with a coaching change.

Mike McCarthy—Cowboys

As is the case with the Jaguars, it seems like Mike McCarthy will be allowed to finish out the season before getting kicked to the curb, but it’s safe to assume the 3-6 Cowboys are going to kick off their search for a new head coach as soon as the regular season ends.

Dallas is now in the midst of a four-game losing streak thanks to a 34-6 loss to the Eagles, and while McCarthy can’t be blamed for Dak Prescott’s season-ending hamstring injury or Jerry Jones’s refusal to use curtains, he’s simply failed to do what he was hired to when he came aboard five years ago.

Brian Daboll—Giants

The Giants lost their fifth game in a row and are now 2-8 after falling to the Panthers in a 20-17 contest.

All signs point to the team finally admitting Daniel Jones doesn’t have what it takes to get it done at QB by benching him ahead of their showdown with Tampa Bay (although most people had already come to that conclusion before they offered him a $160 million contract prior to the start of last season).

Brian Daboll is obviously in an unenviable position as a head coach having to bear the brunt of baffling decisions made by an incompetent front office, but it’s been all downhill since he led the Giants to the playoffs in his inaugural campaign.

New York hasn’t exactly exercised a ton of patience with head coaches since the end of the Tom Coughlin Era, and Daboll can’t be feeling to confident about his future with the team.

Matt Eberflus—Bears

Matt Eberflus threw offensive coordinator Shane Waldron to the wolves by firing him after the Bears hit their lowest point of the season with a 19-3 loss to the equally hapless Patriots to extend their current losing streak to three games.

Chicago has squandered a 4-2 start and fell to 4-5 ahead of a game where some player reportedly lobbied for Tyson Bagent to get the start over Caleb Williams. Eberflus may not be to blame for the lackluster performance of the first overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, but the fact that two supposedly talented QBs have failed to thrive under his watch is something that can’t really be ignored.

If things keep trending in the wrong direction (and it seems like they will given the brutal schedule the Bears are about to endure), his third season in Chicago may end up being his last.

Kevin Stefanski—Browns

The Browns had the week off following their loss to the Chargers, but if that performance was any indication of how things are going to go for the rest of the season, it’s hard to be optimistic about what’s in store.

The loss of Deshaun Watson was probably a blessing in disguise for Stefanski and the Browns, but to paraphrase the legendary words of Rick Pitino, Joe Flacco isn’t walking through that door to salvage things like he did last season (although he probably wouldn’t be able to this year based on how he’s looked with the Colts).

Stefanski is still the best coach the Browns have had in decades, and their decision to possibly move in a new direction could be contingent on which names end up being available.

Antonio Pierce–Raiders

Antonio Pierce tried to shift the blame by firing offensive coordinator Luke Getsy and two other assistant coaches on that side of the ball after losing to the Bengals, and there’s always a chance that ends up being a pivotal turning point for a 2-7 Raiders team that will hope to snap a five-game skid when they play the Dolphins on Sunday.

However, I don’t think there are many people who genuinely believe those guys were the problem, as Pierce has not even come close to matching the level of coaching that led to him earning a permanent gig after he went 5-4 in an interim role last season.

His job may be slightly less secure than a true first-year head coach who found himself in the same, although I would be a bit surprised to see Las Vegas pull the plug after the season wraps up.