Hot Seat Update from Pro Football Network

[Mr. Scot]

Summary

Odds of being fired: High

- Nathaniel Hackett, Denver Broncos

Odds of being fired: Moderate/High

- Kliff Kingsbury, Arizona Cardinals

Odds of being fired: Moderate

- Kevin Stefanski, Cleveland Browns
- Lovie Smith, Houston Texans

Odds of being fired: Low

- Dennis Allen, New Orleans Saints
- Todd Bowles, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Matt Eberflus, Chicago Bears

Odds of being retained: Moderate

- Steve Wilks, Carolina Panthers

Odds of being retained: Very Low

- Jeff Saturday, Indianapolis Colts

Writeups of interest

Steve Wilks

Overview: At the very least, Wilks deserves a whole round of interviews in the coming cycle. And the Panthers might ultimately decide he’s their best option.

What Wilks has done since taking over for an out-of-his-depth Rhule is remarkable. The Panthers enter Week 17 having won three out of four. They’re two wins away from the NFC South title. And they’re doing it with Sam Darnold.

Kliff Kingsbury

Overview: The season is spiraling, the quarterback is hurt, and the general manager is gone. It is a tidal wave in the desert. And Kingsbury has done nothing to prove over the last four seasons that things will get appreciably better next year.

There are reasons to consider the remote possibility that Kingsbury survives, however. The owner is cheap. And the Cardinals’ situation might be the least appealing of all the openings this cycle.

Nathaniel Hackett

Overview: No need to beat a dead horse with this one. This is ground covered time and time again.

But if you needed one last reminder that things are beyond saving for Hackett in Denver, the Broncos’ Week 16 debacle on national TV should have done the trick.

The Broncos got humiliated by a bad Rams team starting Baker Mayfield. And the guy they gave up a ton of draft picks to acquire and a bunch of guaranteed money to secure was awful. Again.

Russell Wilson threw three picks on Christmas. He’s bad. But he’s not going anywhere. Hackett will be the one who pays.

Edited December 26, 2022 by Mr. Scot

[BIGH2001]

I wonder who would have won Hackett vs Rhule. 

[exactlyzack]

3 minutes ago, BIGH2001 said:

I wonder who would have won Hackett vs Rhule. 

Would have been a tie. 0-0

[Mr. Scot]

13 minutes ago, BIGH2001 said:

I wonder who would have won Hackett vs Rhule. 

A perverse part of me would like to have seen that.

[ECHornet]

Would y’all want to pair a Kingsbury/Hackett with a HC Wilks or stick with McAdoo?

[Mr. Scot]

3 minutes ago, ECHornet said:

Would y’all want to pair a Kingsbury/Hackett with a HC Wilks or stick with McAdoo?

No to Kingsbury or Hackett as an OC.

Maybe to McAdoo, but as a quarterback coach.

[Panthers Fan 69]

8 minutes ago, ECHornet said:

Would y’all want to pair a Kingsbury/Hackett with a HC Wilks or stick with McAdoo?

No.  No more college BS. 

[LinvilleGorge]

You would think the presence of Russell Wilson on your roster would be a great selling point to a prospective coach candidate but oddly enough it might be a significant hurdle. That trade and contract means you're tied to Wilson for at least a couple of years. The way he's looked this year that might be career suicide if you take that job.

[TLGPanthersFan]

I cannot believe the Saints and Bucs want to keep their HC. Both of them were terrible coaches before and they are the reason their team sucks. 
Especially with Bowles and the Bucs. 

[TLGPanthersFan]

40 minutes ago, ECHornet said:

Would y’all want to pair a Kingsbury/Hackett with a HC Wilks or stick with McAdoo?

Hackett wasn’t a good OC and his only good year was with Aaron Rodgers. 

[PNW_PantherMan]

46 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

You would think the presence of Russell Wilson on your roster would be a great selling point to a prospective coach candidate but oddly enough it might be a significant hurdle. That trade and contract means you're tied to Wilson for at least a couple of years. The way he's looked this year that might be career suicide if you take that job.

Wilson needs to be able to make things happen from inside the pocket, since he no longer has the same mobility to evade the rush.  After watching him this season, I’m not really sold he can do it.  His trademark play has always been running around in circles for 10 seconds and chucking a prayer downfield.

[LinvilleGorge]

5 minutes ago, PNW_PantherMan said:

Wilson needs to be able to make things happen from inside the pocket, since he no longer has the same mobility to evade the rush.  After watching him this season, I’m not really sold he can do it.  His trademark play has always been running around in circles for 10 seconds and chucking a prayer downfield.

Exactly. It always felt like sheer luck played a significant role and now the horseshoe has fell out of his ass. These are the results that playing style should've always resulted in.  He's basically choirboy Johnny Manziel.

[4Corners]

Didn’t care for that article. Poorly written. 

[Mr. Scot]

27 minutes ago, PNW_PantherMan said:

Wilson needs to be able to make things happen from inside the pocket, since he no longer has the same mobility to evade the rush.  After watching him this season, I’m not really sold he can do it.  His trademark play has always been running around in circles for 10 seconds and chucking a prayer downfield.

There's an argument to be made that their success had more to do with extremely well coached receivers than it did Wilson himself.

It's like the flipside of when people tried to complain that Michael Vick's receivers were the problem in Atlanta.

Edited December 26, 2022 by Mr. Scot