The wildest 48 hours on the 2025 NFL coaching carousel

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🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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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 Subscribe to The Athletic Football Show... Apple Spotify YouTube Follow Robert on Bluesky: @robertmays.bsky.social Follow Derrik on Bluesky: @qbklass.bsky.social Follow Robert on X: @robertmays Follow Derrik on X: @QBKlass Theme song: Haunted Written by Dylan Slocum, Trevor Dietrich, Ruben Duarte, Kyle McAulay, and Meredith VanWoert / Performed by Spanish Love Songs Courtesy of Pure Noise / By arrangement with Bank Robber Music, LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.1	Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. Fun show for you guys today.
1:08.9	So much stuff came out over the weekend in the head coaching news cycle. And we just didn't really have a place to talk about that. It came out after the preview was done. And we didn't want 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.
1:29.0	Me and Derek broke down the Liam Cohen to the Jaguars news, Brian Schottenheimer
1:33.4	heading to the Cowboys, Pete Carroll, heading to the Las Vegas Raiders, which, I don't know,
1:38.5	that one just makes me feel good.
1:40.3	I'm just happy to have Pete Carroll back in the league, and I think Pete Carroll with the
1:43.5	Raiders is a very fun fit. I think Derek agreed. And we dug into some of the coordinator news that has kind of
1:49.2	dripped out over the last few days. Bobby Sloak out with the Texans, the Bears hiring a couple
1:53.4	coordinators, Clint Kubiak landing in the Seahawks, and a few more hires and firings that came down over the last few days. So without further ado, let's get to that conversation with Derek right now.
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