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The NFL Coaching Carousel’s Spinners and Winners

ESPN Daily

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

As the NFL season comes to a close, some teams are scrambling to find new coaches, kicking off the frenzy known as the NFL coaching carousel. ESPN NFL Insider Dan Graziano joins ESPN Daily’s own NFL expert Michele Steele to analyze the Patriots’ signing of Mike Vrabel, and look at some of the other choices that are more up in the air. Could these meetings between Jerry Jones and Deion Sanders land Prime Time in Dallas? Is the NFL’s Rooney Rule — intended to increase the number of coaches of color — being ignored by teams? Will Detroit’s highly sought-after coordinators Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn pass up another year with the Lions? Will Tom Brady use his clout to poach a coach for the Raiders? And don’t forget the playlist, featuring our favorite stories of 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, Dan Graziano. The NFL calendar is coming at us fast and furious. We have at least one coaching

0:06.3

job spoken for. We've got the Senior Bowl coming up in a couple weeks, the combine, the month

0:10.5

after that. If you could choose an analogy, a metaphor to describe the rush around the league

0:16.8

to fill those open head coaching jobs? What metaphor would you choose?

0:21.8

It's as if a bunch of people showed up to a store on the morning of Black Friday,

0:28.8

a day after Thanksgiving, and the electricity was not working,

0:32.3

and no one knew what they wanted.

0:37.3

Very often it's the same teams, right?

0:39.9

It's the Jaguars, it's the Raiders.

0:41.8

The bears have been there.

0:43.0

Right, they know how to get to that parking lot.

0:44.7

Kind of fumbling around and not entirely sure what they're after, which is why they keep coming

0:49.2

back so often.

0:50.6

It's a mess that teams have cycled through these coaches so much the last couple

0:54.2

years that like the pool of candidates is dwindled and that's not making anything better

0:58.4

for the teams that have a hard time figuring out what they're looking for. Yeah, so some of

1:02.1

these usual suspects are fumbling around in the dark trying to find the guy who was going

1:08.4

to lead their teams to the promised land.

1:11.2

But boy,

1:11.7

that metaphor doesn't really reassure a lot of the fans of these teams.

1:15.5

No, nor should it.

1:16.6

You've seen some things covering the NFL for as long as you have.

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