The wildest 48 hours on the 2025 NFL coaching carousel
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🗓️ 28 January 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
One of the signature NFL franchises announced its head coach on a Friday night at 10 pm, and that was the second craziest development of the weekend in the coach hiring cycle. So, yeah, it was a wild weekend on the coaching carousel. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen discuss Pete Carroll to the Raiders, Brian Schottenheimer's ascension in Dallas, Liam Coen's on-again/off-again/on-again partnership with the Jaguars and more on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown
- Pete Carroll to the Raiders
- Brian Schottenheimer takes over in Dallas
- Liam Coen goes to the Jaguars
- The Saints are getting shut out
- Coordinator moves, headlined by Bobby Slowik and Dennis Allen
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:36.4 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:38.7 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:39.7 | Fun show for you guys today. |
| 0:41.1 | So much stuff came out over the weekend in the head coaching news cycle. |
| 0:45.2 | And we just didn't really have a place to talk about that. |
| 0:47.5 | It came out after the preview was done. |
| 0:49.3 | And we didn't want to talk about it in the Championship Sunday recap because that didn't |
| 0:52.4 | really make a lot of sense. |
| 0:53.3 | But we had three head coaches hired over the last four or five days. And we wanted to talk about it in the championship Sunday recap because that didn't really make a lot of sense. But we had three head coaches hired over the last four or five days and we wanted to talk about it somewhere somehow. So that's what this show is for. Me and Derek broke down the Liam Cohen to the Jaguars news, Brian Schottenheimer heading to the Cowboys, Pete Carroll, heading to the Las Vegas Raiders, which I don't know, that one just makes me feel good. |
| 1:12.5 | I'm just happy to have Pete Carroll back in the league, and I think Pete Carroll with the Raiders is a very fun fit. I think Derek agreed, and we dug into some of the coordinator news that has kind of dripped out over the last few days. Bobby Sloak out with the Texans, the Bears hiring a couple coordinators, Clint Kubiak landing in the Seahawks, and a few more hires and firings that came down over the last few days. So without |
| 1:33.7 | further ado, let's get to that conversation with Derek right now. |
| 1:41.8 | All right, Derek, let's get into the coaching news that has rolled out over the last week or so. |
| 1:47.4 | There was no non-awkward timing to do this. |
| 1:50.5 | A lot of it happened like Friday into Saturday, and we didn't want to do a show then because the preview show had already been out, |
| 1:56.2 | and I didn't want to talk about this last night because we wanted to talk about the conference championship games. |
| 2:00.5 | But there are three head coaching hires that have happened since the last time we had a |
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