There are four weeks left in the 2021 NFL regular season. These will be the final four weeks of some unlucky head coaches’ experience leading a professional franchise.
Black Monday will claim the livelihoods of several men this winter. Some will find quick employment elsewhere. Others will have to bide their time as coordinators and assistants before landing back on the league’s annual short list of hot candidates. And Urban Meyer might be able to go back to FOX’s pregame table where he can complain about college football and pretend like he’s never heard of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
The former NCAA champion remains an abject failure in his first season coaching on Sundays. His NFL debut has been spent collecting more Ls than a typefitter trying to publish Dr. Seuss’s unearthed classic Lenny Leller Lim. The Jags 2018 run to the AFC title game feels like a relic from a different era entirely. Jacksonville is back to being The Good Place‘s punchline that somehow never ages poorly.
Meyer isn’t the only coach whose name trends in the void beside “FIRE ______” each Sunday, merely the most notable. So who will escape being thoroughly dissected under a national microscope should they be relieved of their duties the same day as Urban this winter?
