The coaching cycle that just won't quit
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
There are coaching cycles and then there are COACHING CYCLES. Somehow, Black Monday wasn't even a month ago, but it feels like it was three years ago. Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman cover the latest in coaching news—Todd Monken to the Browns! Jesse Minter to the Ravens!—on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. Plus, Joe Buscaglia and Zach Berman, who cover the Bills and Eagles, respectively, for The Athletic, join Robert to discuss the former's hiring of Joe Brady and the latter's unending OC search.
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Host: Robert Mays
Co-Hosts: Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman
With: Joe Buscaglia and Zach Berman
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:06.1 | Today is all coaching cycle all the time. |
| 0:09.0 | We've done a few of these shows, but I mean, the news has been never ending. |
| 0:12.5 | I mean, there's so many different things that we still haven't got a chance to hit. |
| 0:16.4 | Got a couple of head coaching hires to talk about, really one that we haven't hit in any other capacity. The Brown's hired Todd Monkin. We dug into everything that could mean for Cleveland. Chatted about Jesse Minter and Mike McCarthy filling out their staffs, the Jets and just the everything that's going on there, essentially firing every coach they had on staff and what that plan might look like dug into the coordinator hires for these teams |
| 0:38.3 | the cowboys the titans the bucks the chiefs the packers the dolphins and then there were two of these |
| 0:43.3 | discussions that i wanted to have with people who are authorities on the subject matter because |
| 0:48.0 | i feel like there's just so much to sort through one is the bills hiring joe brady to be their |
| 0:52.5 | head coach joe busalia our bill's writer at the athletic joined me to dig that. We talked about it for a good 20 minutes, and we could have talked about it for a lot longer. Why they landed on Joe Brady, what the upside is of that, what the potential downside is of that, what it means for the defensive side of the ball, really enjoyed that conversation with Joe. And the other one I wanted just some better insight on was what's going on with the Eagles offensive coordinator search. Obviously, they miss out on Brian Dable and Mike McDaniel. They still haven't made a decision. It feels like now they're taking their time because the pool of candidates has shifted. There's just a lot to sort through. And I trust Zach Berman to help me sort through it. And so that's what we did today. Zach joined us to kind of make sense |
| 1:31.8 | of what's going on with the Eagles OC hires. So digging through all the news, Joe Biscalia, |
| 1:37.3 | on the Joe Brady hire, and then Zach Berman on why the Eagles haven't hired an offensive coordinator. |
| 1:43.1 | Let's get to all of that right now. |
| 1:50.5 | We were going to do a mailbag today. |
| 1:52.7 | It was going to be kind of a end-of-season pre-super Bowl wind-down mailbag, |
| 1:57.7 | and the NFL coaching cycle said, |
| 1:59.3 | fuck you. |
| 2:00.2 | Very loudly, aggressively. That's exactly what |
| 2:03.2 | happened. And so there's just so much coaching news to dig through. And you guys hit some of it on |
| 2:08.0 | the post-mortem show, but 20 things that happened since then. I wanted to do more, but I just knew |
| 2:12.9 | that within 48 hours, we would be under an avalanche of more news, which is exactly what happened. |
| 2:18.1 | So we're going to try our best today to scoop up everything that has happened. We're recording |
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