Black Monday fallout: Mike Vrabel, Arthur Smith and Ron Rivera out, Bill Belichick in limbo, Jim Harbaugh's NFL prospects, and more with Dianna Russini
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🗓️ 8 January 2024
⏱️ 80 minutes
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While 14 NFL teams get ready for the playoffs, the other 18 have turned their attention to the offseason. At least six teams among those 18 will spend the immediate future looking for a new head coach. Robert Mays and Dianna Russini discuss all the Black Monday fallout on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.Follow Robert on Twitter: @robertmays
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| 0:47.5 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:49.8 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:50.6 | Joining me today is our senior NFL insider at the athletic. |
| 0:54.1 | Diana, how are you? |
| 0:55.6 | I'm good. |
| 0:56.5 | I'm good. |
| 0:57.2 | I'm psyched that week 18 actually turned out to be a little bit more exciting than I was |
| 1:02.0 | expecting it to. |
| 1:02.7 | It did. |
| 1:04.4 | And I don't, I want to say the, the Monday firings were expected. I classify it that way right now, but I still think |
| 1:17.1 | there's a lot more action to come. So let's definitely get into this. A couple that I think |
| 1:22.1 | were hanging in the air, maybe one that was a tiny bit surprising, but not shocking, one that I |
| 1:26.4 | think everyone saw coming. And then we have a couple that we're still waiting on, which not shocking, one that I think everyone saw coming. |
| 1:31.1 | And then we have a couple that we're still waiting on, which we'll get to near the end of the show. |
| 1:30.0 | But that's what we're doing today. We're going to break down all of the moving parts with the head coach firings, the head coach interview process, the GMs that are being interviewed at some of these spots. So let's start with some of the most recent moves that have happened, including the one that was a little bit surprising, I guess to some people on Sunday night. |
| 1:46.6 | Arthur Smith fired. So let's start with some of the most recent moves that have happened, including the one that was a little bit surprising, I guess, to some people on Sunday night. |
| 1:51.3 | Arthur Smith fired as head coach of the Falcons after three, seven and ten seasons. Sounds like Terry Fontno will keep his job, at least for now, as the Falcons GM. |
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