Patriots, Jaguars and Raiders join the Bears, Jets and Saints on the head coaching search
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🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
The 2024-25 edition of Black Monday brought with it three coach firings—Jerod Mayo in New England, Doug Pederson in Jacksonville and Antonio Pierce in Las Vegas. Those three teams, along with the Bears, Jets and Saints will be spending the next few weeks finding their new head coaches. How do we expect those searches to unfold, and what does what we already know about them say about each of the teams? Mike Sando joins Robert Mays to break it all down on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown
- Patriots fire Jerod Mayo
- Jaguars fire Doug Pederson...but keep Trent Baalke
- Bears coaching search
- Jets coaching search
- Saints coaching search
- Colts retain Shane Steichen, Chris Ballard
- Dolphins retain Mike McDaniel, Chris Grier
- Giants retain Brian Daboll, Joe Schoen
- BREAKING NEWS: Raiders fire Antonio Pierce
- Titans fire Ran Carthon
- Lou Anarumo headlines coordinator firings
Host: Robert Mays
With: Mike Sando
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Black Monday is upon us. |
| 0:06.2 | The set of firings in the NFL have happened. |
| 0:08.9 | We have six head coaching openings in the league right now after Antonio Pierce was fired. |
| 0:14.9 | We got to that news mid-show. |
| 0:16.3 | Thankfully, we were not done recording before that happened. |
| 0:18.4 | So I got to hit that and the rest of the current |
| 0:21.9 | openings with the athletic zone, Mike Sando. We chatted about every open job, the candidates that are |
| 0:27.2 | being interviewed for those jobs, what it says about the type of coach that these teams are seeking |
| 0:32.1 | out. We dug into the Rancarthon being fired in Tennessee news, some of the coordinator changes that have |
| 0:38.0 | happened down the league, essentially tried to scoop up every bit of coaching and personnel |
| 0:43.4 | related staffing news that we could from the last couple of days. So we're going to dig into |
| 0:48.7 | all of that with Mike Sando right now. |
| 0:57.2 | Welcome to The Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:59.2 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:59.9 | Joining me today is one of our senior writers here at The Athletic. |
| 1:02.7 | It's Mike Sando. |
| 1:03.3 | Mike, how are you doing, man? |
| 1:04.2 | I am doing great, Robert. |
| 1:06.3 | Really am. |
| 1:06.9 | How was your season? |
| 1:08.1 | It was great. |
| 1:08.7 | It was great. |
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