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The 2025 NFL season has seen two head coaches fired, with Brian Daboll and Brian Callahan both shown the door. While we don’t anticipate any additional NFL coaches fired during the regular season, there are a few who could be axed on Black Monday after Week 18.
As we enter December, with all 32 teams having played at least 12 games, it’s time to evaluate where the NFL coaching hot seat stands right now as Week 14 approaches.
It seemed impossible, but the Las Vegas Raiders are a worse team under Pete Carroll than they were with Antonio Pierce. Las Vegas went 4-13 with Pierce last season, posting a -125 point differential and a 10-game losing streak. As the Raiders enter Week 14, the franchise holds a -129 point differential with a 2-10 record, and it will very likely reach a 10-game losing streak by the end of December.
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Carroll was brought in to stabilize this franchise, serving as a player-friendly coach who would instill a winning culture. Instead, it appears like the Raiders locker room has quit on Carroll as evidenced by three consecutive losses by double-digit points. Maybe everyone should’ve seen this coming given that Carroll hired his son as the Raiders offensive line coach. In related news, Las Vegas has the NFL’s worst offensive line in 2025.
Plenty of fans wanted Kevin Stefanski fired after he went 3-14 last season, overseeing a team that had the second-worst point differential in the NFL and by far the worst offense in the league. However, the Cleveland Browns opted to exercise patience with a two-time Coach of the Year winner. That decision has backfired.
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Cleveland heads into December with a 3-9 record and he has very little to do with those victories this season. After all, the Browns offense ranks 31st in yards-per-play average (4.2) with the lowest scoring rate (25.4 percent) in the NFL. It’s completely wasting an elite defense and a historic year from Myles Garrett. What should be the final nail in Stefanski’s proverbial coffin is sticking with Dillon Gabriel for so long, as Shedeur Sanders is clearly the better quarterback. Stefanski will almost certainly get a second chance as an NFL head coach, but Cleveland needs to make a change.
Raheem Morris certainly earned his second chance to become a full-time NFL head coach, and a return to the Atlanta Falcons seemed perfect for him. After all, the organization went all-in on winning the NFC South behind a core of outstanding playmakers on offense. Then, following an 8-9 campaign, the Falcons front office amped up the aggressiveness by giving Morris two young pass rushers to help turn this defense around.
The results at this point simply aren’t good enough to justify keeping Morris around. Even before the season-ending injury to Michael Penix...
