Bad Coach Power Rankings: NFL Week 14

BY ADAM GREENE

As the season enters its final month, there’s a sense of love and brotherhood in the air. There’s a feeling that things are looking up. They’re going to be better. I’m not talking about the Christmas spirit or New Year’s resolutions. I’m talking about garbage NFL head coaches because there’s a bunch of them about to get fired.

When it comes to improving your football team, few things can work faster than sending a crappy coach down the nearest trap door. You still have to nail the follow-up hire, sure, but removing a malignancy is never a bad thing.

The problem with this season is there are just so many bad coaches to choose from. Narrowing it down to five took a little work. There were voices raised during the selection meeting. Members were passionate and sometimes it got personal. At one point, a bagel was thrown.

Here’s your countdown of the five worst head coaches in the NFL heading into Week 14.

5. PAT SHURMUR, NEW YORK GIANTS

This is Shumur’s second stint as an NFL head coach and it’s gone just about as well as the first. He was the Cleveland Browns’ head man from 2011-2012, going 9-23 before getting the ax from new owner and professional garbage person himself, Jimmy Haslam.

In his two seasons at the helm of the Giants, he’s currently 8-21 and managed to ruin the final years of Eli Manning’s career in the process all while making New Yorkers miss the chessmaster playcalling of Ben McAdoo.

CAREER COACHING RECORD: 17-44
CHANGE OF GETTING FIRED: 50%

4. JASON GARRETT, DALLAS COWBOYS

The Cowboys roster is loaded not only with talent, but with big contracts. The NFC East was there for the taking when the season started. With Pat Shurmur and Jay Gruden coaching two of the squads, all Dallas needed to do was get past an Eagles team continually hampered by injuries.

Garrett has managed, in years past, to win just enough late in the season to keep Jerry Jones from loading him into the nearest catapult, but seems that magic or deal with the devil has finally expired.

CAREER HEAD COACHING RECORD: 85-68
CHANCE OF GETTING FIRED: 90%

3. ANTHONY LYNN, LOS ANGELES CHARGERS

Of all the guys on this list, you could make an argument for any of them that they at least deserved the shot at being an NFL head coach. All of them except Lynn. There was no rhyme or reason behind the Chargers hiring him as their head man in 2017 other than complete apathy and the desire to save as much money as possible

Lynn never served as an offensive or defensive coordinator and had the distinction of being Rex Ryan’s right-hand man from 2009 until the Buffalo Bills fired him in 2016. Better than being Ryan’s right foot man, but still.

Lynn served as the Bills’ interim head coach when Ryan was shot out the airlock and, somehow, that put him on a few head coaching lists. Dean Spanos pulled the trigger and now you have one of the most potent rosters in the NFL sitting at 4-8.

CAREER HEAD COACHING RECORD: 26-21
CHANCE OF GETTING FIRED: 20%

2. DAN QUINN, ATLANTA FALCONS

Three years ago Quinn helped the Falcons deliver the all-time choke job in Super Bowl history, blowing a 28-3 lead over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LI. Neither he, nor the team, ever recovered.

Unlike the other guys on this list, Quinn will be alright when the shoe finally drops. He’ll land as a defensive coordinator somewhere and be successful, as he was in his time with the Seattle Seahawks. He’s not the first guy to work better as a coordinator than a head man. Look at Wade Phillips and Norv Turner. Sometimes, it’s better to be the XO.

CAREER HEAD COACHING RECORD: 42-39
CHANCE OF GETTING FIRED: 95%

1. FREDDIE KITCHENS, CLEVELAND BROWNS

Of all the abject failures on this first bad coaching power rankings, none has defecated his Serta Beautyrest more thoroughly than Kitchens, who was handed the keys to a Lamborghini on offense and promptly drove it into a line of overflowing port-a-johns.

The Browns did everything they could in the offseason to get better, adding Odell Beckham Jr. and Olivier Vernon from the Giants for a couple of picks and players. They brought in Sheldon Richardson, re-signed their own good players and, most importantly, fired Gregg Williams and Bob Wylie.

While they’re undoubtedly better than when Hue Jackson coached the team, Kitchens has completely blown this opportunity, literally out of the gate, losing 43-13 at home to the Tennessee Titans.

CAREER HEAD COACHING RECORD: 5-7
CHANCE OF GETTING FIRED: 10%

Get the latest NFL football odds and information–follow BetOnline.ag on Twitter!

BetOnline.ag on Instagram–Follow for the latest odds, stats and information!