Best + Worst Head Coaching Vacancies

Rotoworld Football Show – Fantasy Football

NBC Sports, Pat Daugherty, Kyle Dvorchak, Denny Carter

Sports, Football, Fantasy Sports

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Patrick Daugherty (@RotoPat) and Denny Carter hop on the coaching carousel, breaking down all six openings from best to worst. Does Jaxson Dart make the Giants the most attractive destination, or does the Falcons’ better overall roster take the cake? On the worst front, it comes down to Cleveland, Tennessee and Arizona. That leaves Vegas in the middle, with its No. 1 overall pick but “Tom Brady factor” in the front office. They also highlight potential coaching options, including the surprisingly sensible Kliff Kingsbury case.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Rotorov football show, Tuesday, January 6th,
0:20.6	2026, a real year that exists, not science fiction, the least aesthetically pleasing year.
0:26.5	Probably since at least 2017, Denny.
0:29.5	2023 was bad.
0:30.9	2021 was bad, too, actually.
0:32.9	22 is one.
0:34.1	2019, I feel like had some heft behind it, some power.
0:36.8	Came to the aesthetics, but 2026,
0:38.8	about as unethetically pleasing as an even numbered year can be.
0:42.4	But 2025 is over.
0:44.3	Regular season is over.
0:46.0	Playoffs beginning this weekend.
0:48.0	Denny and I will preview that on Thursday.
0:49.8	But now it's the in-between season.
0:51.6	It is coaching season.
0:53.3	Six vacancies so far. Honestly surprised it's that few, Dany. Maybe a few teams that could have afforded to change it up. Maybe still will change it up. Mike McDaniels been meeting with Stephen Ross for 72 straight hours. I'm trying to figure this out. Like, there's always one of those. I think the Eagles did that to Doug Peterson. Someone reminded yesterday. Like Doug Peterson has not been, they've been intentionally keeping him
1:16.1	awake for two days. He's begging for a nap. Yeah. And they didn't like the way he responded. So
1:22.0	they fired him. But the Giants have a vacancy. That was of course early in the season. The Titans,
1:26.5	even earlier in the Giants, joining them on Sunday and Monday,
1:29.9	where the Falcons, who is a, I'm going to name drop a few different things here, didn't it. I went on Sheal Capadia, the Ringer NFL show. And I'm going to repeat a few things I said there. sorry if you heard me there, but Sheel said, you know, the Falcons, they were so antsy,
1:44.0	they couldn't even wait until Monday.
1:45.1	We got to just fire him now.
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