Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz, senior NFL writer Jori Epstein, and NFL writer Frank Schwab discuss which NFL head coach’s hot seat is the hottest and may not make it through the season. Hear the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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I’ll ask you guys this, what coach do you think Frank is on the hottest seat of everybody going into this year again, not rooting for anybody to lose their job of whose seat is the hottest.
I think it’s Brian Day Ball.
I, I just think that the way last season went for the Giants, a lot of people sniping about his management style and how he’s kind of an angry guy at times when things aren’t going well and that the locker room, see, he did keep locker room together the second half of the year.
I was wondering about that, but I think that just looking at the, the prospects of the Giants this year and they’re probably not going to be very good.
I think Brian Day Ball is on hottest.
See, and if I had to pick one of these guys to be the first to go, it’s probably day ball, Jery, what do you think?
I am fascinated by the Brian Dable situation because I think that hard knocks influence his public perception so much and I came away from it being like Joe Shane, made clear that he doesn’t think Daniel Jones is the guy.
And so if Daniel Jones doesn’t work out, Joe Shane can then say, like I told you, I tried to get another quarterback, give me a chance to get my own quarterback in there.
A lot of people I talked to in the league came away saying Joe Shane didn’t do what the owner asked him to do when he asked him to keep H Guan and that is going to be reflected in their relationship going forward.
Um Yeah, I mean, Brian Dable is a tricky one.
I, I think that Brian Dable and Joe Shane, it’s unlikely to me that they will both be in their seats in 2025 unless they can kind of replicate what they got a couple of years ago.
And also you look at the emotions that Brian Dable had on the sideline last year and those did draw some ire.
Um I would say he’s on the hottest seat, not necessarily because he’s show the most concern, but also like when you look at Dennis Allen, when you look at some of these other guys even Doug Peterson, they’re just not in markets where people are going to be talking about it as much.
And maybe I’m just biased for my seven years covering the cowboys who have such a spotlight on them.
But I do think that owners care what people say and I do think that owners are aware of how much talk around there is and I just don’t think that all of ESPN is going to be talking about Dennis Allen, but I’ll add on that terms of perception if Sean Payton with B Nicks in the first year can just go off and have a crazy season.
I think that will hurt Dennis Allen because I do think that ownership is going to be aware of what they lost and what they’re trying to get back.