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00:002026 nfl hot seat rankings for coaches there are five coaches on this list right they're not in any
00:08particular order but i will give you the four coaches that are also on the list with commander's
00:15head coach dan quinn they are in order by the way he did list them in order in the hottest
00:20like the
00:21least hot to hottest seat yeah he's got them one through five oh okay um well at number one he's
00:26got aaron glenn right he's an awful record an abysmal record he went 3 and 14 in 2025 and now
00:34he comes back in year two with geno smith leading the offense in new york i wouldn't expect the jets
00:42to win more than five or six games and i'd be surprised veron glenn made it through the entire
00:472026 season with his job intact so that that makes sense and number two he's got geno smith was in
00:53the
00:53news recently yeah that is his baby's mama like sent some sort of uh video out or he didn't come
01:02off good i can't remember the exact details i think that that the ex-girlfriend she leaked a text
01:11weren't the charges though dismissed maybe i believe that's the case with geno but we can we can it wasn't
01:17a good look wasn't a great look for him but uh on the pro football side it's not a great
01:23look for
01:23the jets to have geno smith as your starting quarterback in 2026 yep he's clearly a stop
01:28gap solution they're desperate until they find their quarterback of the future uh todd bowles is
01:33second on this list with the tampa bay bucks uh he is signed through 2028 it's 35 and 33 over
01:40four
01:40seasons with the bucks including a one and three playoff record so he's at number two on this list
01:45at number three is shane steichen he's about to enter season number four with the colts he's gone 25
01:52and 26 apparently the sense of urgency quote has never been higher in indianapolis so it looks like
02:01he needs a playoff appearance to keep the seat from getting super hot in indy uh number four on the
02:08list
02:09zach taylor head coach of the cincinnati bengals uh the bengals always seem to be the same sort of
02:16deal great offense yeah i was kind of surprised he's always he was back this year uh joe burrow
02:21has had a hard time staying healthy they don't seem to like firing coaches this is handy didn't
02:25marvin lewis stay there forever yeah he was there for a while well they they don't want to pay coaches
02:29that aren't they're all working for them true i mean they're a notoriously cheap franchise so that
02:34makes sense but i got to think if they don't make the playoffs this year he's gone yeah
02:37and a number five on the list dan quinn from your washington commanders how can he not be on the
02:44list this seat has to be hot after last i just think because he's he hasn't been there that long
02:50it's a surprise that he's on the hot seat for after a couple years and the one year i think
02:55that's
02:55modern nfl the one bad year was because of a billion injuries including your quarterback and also the
03:02defense was putrid allowed 384 total yards per game they ranked second worst in turnover
03:08differential at minus 13 and takeaways with only 10 he fired both of his coordinators yeah it's it's a
03:15moved on from both coordinators that usually is a last gasp move for coaches right now hopefully it
03:22works out and i agree with you jason the biggest factor in their season falling apart last year was
03:28the quarterback got hurt yeah so i mean at the beginning of the year whatever our record
03:34prediction was if at the beginning of the year we were told hey jayden's only going to play in four
03:41or five games marcus mariotta is going to start the majority of the games none of us would have
03:45predicted predicted to be a playoff in 11 games we wouldn't have predicted them to be a winning team
03:51yeah and they weren't now if he had all the starters including his quarterback and they went
03:575 and 12 all right different story so i don't know i'm just a little surprised that he's one of
04:03the top
04:03five so i think for them to move on from coach quinn they would have to have another terrible season
04:12meaning they would lose 11 or 12 games again yeah if he gets them back to 500 ish which i
04:20know you
04:20can't be 500 because there's 17 games i think he would survive but if they had a losing record a
04:26pretty bad losing record yeah if they win josh harris moves on from coaches and other leagues all the
04:32time if they win four or five games in 2026 which i think they're going to win many more than
04:38that but
04:39if they crater like that then it's going to be really tough for him to be brought back for 2027
04:47like you have two straight horrible seasons back to back all right i could see that i i just don't
04:55unless jayden is not on the field i just don't see them going five and 12 right when they address
05:00it'll be tough they address too many weaknesses especially on the defensive side yeah for the
05:04reasons for optimism in the article he points out the commanders had a solid offseason defensively
05:09they added starters at all three levels there are two new pass rushers in clavon chase on and
05:14a new defensive tackle in javon kinlaw that doesn't make sense he's been there already uh two
05:20new linebackers leo chanel and styles and two new starters on the back end and amik robertson who
05:24they signed from detroit and former terp standout nick cross yep he mentions the offensive pickups of
05:31rashad white uh drafting antonio williams to help out at receiver and chigakonkwo coming over from the
05:36titans he says i'd like to see washington sign another receiver for daniels such as stefan diggs
05:42but the commanders are in a better place on paper at this point and it's hard to argue that they
05:48made a lot of uh free agency upgrades i love the drafting of styles at seven i think antonio
05:54williams will be productive uh in the offense as a slot and outside receiver um i know there's
06:01been a lot of you know hand wringing about the fact that they don't have a solid number two wide
06:05out
06:06i feel like they're going to try to just cobble together committee yeah it's going to be wide
06:11receiver two by committee yeah and they're hoping that they get i mean who knows they might surprise
06:15us and go out and get diggs they could you know i don't think it's going to be iu could
06:19be wrong on
06:19that but i i think if they go out and get diggs i mean if they go out and get
06:24a diggs who has already
06:26talked about possibly coming home i mean that would be huge it would be it would it would be big
06:32a big
06:32boost for the office it would be but back to dan quinn being on the hot seat does anybody argue
06:38with
06:39that no shouldn't he be on the hot seat you give him a pass for last i argue i argue
06:44because he
06:45hasn't been it's not like he's been here five or six years and he's had a stretch of non-playoff
06:49years he had an unbelievable first year two years ago and then this past year there were reasons they
06:54won five games if he has another five and 12 season with all of guys on the field yeah and
07:00it's
07:00just been a bad coaching season i'm with you but i don't think he should be on the hot seat
07:04yet
07:05i'd say it's a warm seat he's on the warm seat right now that's fair if if it's an abysmal
07:10season
07:10then it's hot and he might want to he might want to refresh his linkedin profile but if you go
07:17back
07:18to when he was hired and when adam peters was hired you figured year three was the big year because
07:23they
07:24were a turnover a roster yep it takes time to go from where they were which was at or near
07:31the bottom
07:32to a contending team then year one completely shocked everyone jay daniel's exceeded expectations
07:39they make it all the way the nfc championship game bars raised regression last year horrible year last
07:46year but if you go back to the beginning we always thought that by year three they should be
07:52a playoff contending team so with all these roster moves with jay daniel's back hopefully healthy
08:00throughout the season they should be a playoff contending team and if they fall short i don't
08:05think it's unheard of for an owner to move on from the head coach if they go nine and eight
08:13miss the
08:13playoffs you think nine and eight i don't think nine and eight all right eight nine i think job is
08:17safe
08:17eight nine eight nine job mostly safe all right six and eleven six eleven you start might be a little
08:24bit of trouble you start getting into hey dan come to come to the owner's office and come by yourself
08:30we're gonna have a we're gonna have a real man-to-man conversation here i i like dan he had
08:36a lot of
08:37success in that first season but he wasn't the first choice no he wasn't i mean by all accounts
08:44they were smitten by ben johnson yeah then he ben johnson said no he bunged them well they were
08:54like already on a plane to go see ben he was disrespecting the basketball guys yeah but it
09:00did look like called them but even though he wasn't the first choice it looked like a brilliant choice
09:03after the first year yes yeah so look in atlanta it kind of happened in atlanta where after they
09:13they they they lost to the eagles in the playoffs the next two years they went seven and nine seven
09:19and nine and in that third year they started oh and five and they canned them if they went beyond
09:23those five that's a little different two coaches who i thought might make that list now they've had
09:28successful teams but they just haven't pulled it off winning the big one is now sirianni did but i
09:35think sirianni could be on there he's won the super bowl um and then i do think campbell in detroit
09:42if this season goes south possibly yeah jordan di johnny when he started the the bit about dan
09:52quinn he said when it comes to the nfc east it would be easy to include nick sirianni in these
09:56hot
09:56seat rankings but let's talk about dan quinn yeah so he's the i'm wondering if commanders fans agree
10:02with that well after two years there will welcome to call us at 800-636-1067 do you agree or
10:09disagree
10:09with jordan di johnny's column that ranks dan quinn amongst hot seat i mean how bad into the season how
10:16bad does the season have to go where you just want to see an entirely different coaching staff i think
10:21if it's six wins or less then you're going to have a real discussion about who's going to be the
10:26head
10:27coach in 2027 you're probably right let's just see how it goes and how you know why it's six wins
10:32right but you're probably right if it's six and 11 or certainly if it's less than that i could see
10:38them making a change but i think everything's going to be different this year i don't see a five and
10:4312 or six and 11 season i'd see them going 500 if not better let's go to joe in manassas
10:49joe you're
10:49on with the junks good morning hey what's up joe love the show as always and honestly i just wanted
10:55to say he's 100 on the hot seat and it takes it's the point that you mentioned he's a defensive
11:01minded
11:02guy and our defense was the worst in the history they couldn't figure out anything with it to do
11:07anything i mean i think that let alone is is the reason he should be on the hot seat i
11:13mean i just
11:14think it's that should be the number one reason why he should be on the hot seat it's a good
11:18point
11:18thank you joe appreciate the call i just put that up as our junkies poll of the day brought to
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11:32surfside must be 21 please drink responsibly question is simple should he be on the hot seat we all kind
11:38of think he's kind of on the hot seat but should he cakes should he be on the hot seat
11:43i said warm seat
11:44he should be on a warmish seat if he has another really disappointing season yeah you crank up the
11:52hot seat i say he should be on the hot seat it should be right now it is a results
11:58oriented business
11:59he's got to deliver this team to a far better record than what they had last year and i'll say
12:05there's context like if he has injuries again then i'll be understanding okay and i'll say this to the
12:10caller i would agree that he's a defensive coach and the defense sucked but they've got they've
12:16upgraded at so many positions on the defensive end i don't know about the coordinator we'll see
12:21well especially the linebacker spot they've completely revamped an unathletic slow old linebacker room
12:28and injected it with sunny styles and leo chanel from kansas city by the way they have another defense
12:34chanel i think you pointed that out during uh chanel okay minicamp i think it's chanel
12:39if they have another bad season defensively with all these new parts okay then i i'm gonna look at
12:45maybe you start looking at okay well the parts are better making bad decisions at defensive
12:50right like you're you're overseeing this is your hand-picked new defensive coordinator like there
12:54should be improvements with dorante jones at the helm but last year they just didn't have the pieces
12:59on the defensive side i mean they just weren't very good should adam peters be on a warm seat
13:05i mean he's kind of married to dan quinn so if you're gonna put peters should be too if you're
13:13gonna put dq on it you got to put peters on it but usually the coach goes before the gm
13:17yeah
13:19but then you you're gonna let peters pick another head coach if you're not crazy about the job he's
13:24doing that's true it's a big season you look at some of the draft choices obviously hit on jayden but
13:30johnny newton man ben sinnett yeah man jury's still out mcafree meh meh meh i mean that's that's
13:39his first draft yeah you know just throwing out some of the names well they just haven't had a lot
13:43of picks either yeah and then last season you know marsh marsh on latim i believe the 28 days
13:5227 rookies and younger players report the 24th veterans on the 28th that's coming yep it's less
13:58than about the way you can start i think they're actually on the field on the 29th okay pretty
14:04sure that that's the first day they're on the field yep so we'll have to see how that plays
14:07less than a month away when we come back we'll pivot over to the wizards it seems like indicators
14:13pointing to the wizards are open to trading anthony davis away before he ever plays one game for the
14:21washington wizards would you be in favor of that trading anthony davis we'll take your calls on
14:28that and discuss that next here on the fan
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