Key Highlights
- Kevin Stefanski won AP NFL Head Coach of the Year honors in a third of his seasons at the helm. All are very good coaches.
- All wound up fired or resigning after the 2025 regular season. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThis offseason has seen a rising impatience with good coaches who'd lost the ability to be great.
- Rather than see if they could break through to a new plateau from their high floors, franchise owners across the NFL -- well, mostly the AFC -- bet on the momentum of a new hire to to shatter that ceiling.
- The AFC North alone lost 43 years of head coach experience because the three coaches that provided it had made it beyond the Divisional Round of the playoffs just once in the past decade. The majority of the 10 coaches fired during or after the 2025 season found respectable levels of success in the league -- not you, Brian Callahan.
- Brian Daboll won a road playoff game by shifting Daniel Jones' entire offense to a low-impact, high-efficiency machine.
