5 NFL teams who should hire Charlie Strong

Charlie Strong will likely be fired by the University of Texas. While he has never coached in the NFL, here are five teams that could work for him in 2017.

After losing an absolute embarrassing game on the road to the Kansas Jayhawks, the University of Texas plans to fire its head football coach Charlie Strong on Monday. He could have coached the 5-6 Texas Longhorns in their final regular season game against the TCU Horned Frogs, but Texas has made it abundantly clear it wants to go in a different direction with its head football coach.

While Strong can land another Power 5 head coaching gig in 2017, or at the very least a defensive coordinator role, maybe this is the time he can look to coaching in the NFL. Now he likely won’t get glamorous positions right off the bat, but maybe the disaster in Austin has caused him to hate the college game and the associated boosters that come with it.

Here are five teams in the NFL that could use Strong’s help in 2017 in some way or another.

As the Oakland Raiders seem to be a serious AFC Championship contender under second-year head coach Jack Del Rio, there are still plenty of ways this young team can improve. Del Rio’s renegade approach to coaching is working marvelously in the Bay Area, but one area Oakland can improve in is pass defense.

The Raiders have a solid defensive coordinator in Ken Norton Jr. and several outstanding defensive backs. Most of the great players in the Raiders secondary are on the younger side of 25. Would it make sense to have a former collegiate back in Strong help bring along guys like David Amerson, Karl Joseph, and Sean Smith as a defensive backs coach?

When Oakland gets everything together in the defensive backfield, then the Raiders can become one of the few teams every season that can contend to win Super Bowls. The problem is that the Raiders tend to give up the big, broken play far too many times in the secondary.

Whether it is a defensive back coaching role or a defensive consultant role, Strong could do very well in the positively infectious culture in the Raiders organization. Yes, the Raiders seem to have a great football culture for the first time in over a decade. It will absolutely beat the constant beat down he has never weekly from the Austin media.