Black Monday fallout: Four teams turn over a new coaching leaf
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
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Summary
Another Black Monday has hit the NFL, and with it came plenty of expected news. Raheem Morris out in Atlanta. Pete Carroll out in Las Vegas. Jonathan Gannon out in Arizona. It also saw the firing in Cleveland of two-time Coach of the Year Kevin Stefanski, who might just be a victim of circumstance more than anything else. Six teams are now on the coaching carousel, which we can expect to spin for most of the next month. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen dive into all the Black Monday news on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
3:14 Falcons fire Raheem Morris and Terry Fontenot
16:45 Browns fire Kevin Stefanski, retain Andrew Berry
30:17 Raiders fire Pete Carroll
36:21 Cardinals fire Jonathan Gannon
47:14 Titans update
49:36 Giants update
52:26 Teams not making any changes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:06.7 | Unfortunately, it is Black Monday in the NFL, and we have a handful of firings to dig through. |
| 0:13.2 | Rahim Morris and Terry Fano both let go last night. |
| 0:16.0 | We did not hit that on the recap show because we knew we were doing it today. |
| 0:19.3 | Started off with that. |
| 0:20.5 | The Browns do end up firing Kevin Stefanski. |
| 0:22.9 | They bring back Andrew Barry. |
| 0:24.8 | Talked about that on both sides. |
| 0:27.4 | The Raiders move on from Pete Carroll |
| 0:28.8 | and the Cardinals do end up firing Jonathan Gannon. |
| 0:31.9 | So dug into all of that with Derek Classen on today's show. |
| 0:36.6 | Let's get to that conversation right now. |
| 0:43.8 | It's a day that I never look forward to on the NFL calendar, but it's a day that always comes, |
| 0:49.6 | and it's one that obviously requires our attention and something we have to dig through. |
| 0:53.8 | But it is officially |
| 0:54.9 | Black Monday in the NFL. And we knew we would get some news. There are some that were to be |
| 0:59.9 | expected. I think there was one that at least somewhat of a surprise in the sense I think it was |
| 1:04.7 | kind of on the fence. But we've got a handful of firings that we are going to be sorting through |
| 1:09.2 | today. It's the least fun day of the calendar, it feels like, which is crazy because yesterday, like last Sunday is one of the most exciting on the calendar. Like week 18, you're trying to sort out like who's going to get the one seat, who's going to be in the playoffs. And not within 24 hours. You're whipped around and had to talk about like four or five guys who have lost their job now. We have, I think, four head coach firings over the past 24 hours or so. |
| 1:30.8 | We're just going to kind of go in chronological order because that's how the stock is laid out. |
| 1:34.6 | We got our first one last night. |
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