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NFL power rankings: Head coaches from 32-1

By Brad Berreman

HOUSTON, TX - FEBRUARY 05: Head coach Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots speaks to the media after Super Bowl 51 at NRG Stadium on February 5, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images)
HOUSTON, TX - FEBRUARY 05: Head coach Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots speaks to the media after Super Bowl 51 at NRG Stadium on February 5, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images) /
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31. Todd Bowles, New York Jets

To be fair, Bowles is being put in an unwinnable position entering his third season as Jets’ head coach. The same veterans that yielded a 10-6 near-playoff season in 2015 struggled through a 5-11 campaign last year, and the resulting shedding of many of those aforementioned veterans has left behind the most talent-bare roster in the league.

An organization that’s willing to tank and a coach that surely would like to win games to keep his job aren’t a good match. It’s hard to say what 2017 win total would allow Bowles to return for a fourth season with the Jets, if there’s even such a benchmark in play. But it’s rare for a coach more than one season into his tenure to survive an 0-16 or a 1-15 season, and that’s what the Jets are in line for this year.

Bowles will surely do his best to navigate a tough situation with the Jets this coming season. But he’s essentially a lame-duck head coach, and he has to know it with or without being told it by anyone above him ahead of time.

Bowles’ dismal place on this list is mostly a function of his circumstance, and not a broad comment on his coaching ability. He’ll surely have a job somewhere in the league in 2018, just don’t expect it to be as head coach of the Jets as they try to embark on the upswing of a rebuild.

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