Nearing the halfway point in the NFL season, there’s a growing number of head coaches who need to start winning.
We’re almost to the midway point of the season, but already we’re starting to see teams rise to the top while others sink into the abyss. It’s those teams sinking into the depths that we’re most interested in, specifically whether or not the captain is going down with the ship or not.
We’ve yet to see a coach fired this season, but with the way things are going for some teams that might not be far off from happening.
These coaches need to win this weekend, otherwise, their seat is going to get much hotter.
It could be argued, not totally unjust, that the only reason Mike Mularkey was hired as Titans head coach was because of the need for continuity with Marcus Mariota. But as the wheels start to come off, so too do Mularkey’s chances of remaining head coach.
The Titans were supposed to be a team that took the next step this year, but Mularkey has failed to bring them up to speed. Mariota is struggling, the offense has forgotten it’s powerful dual-running threat and the defense is average. Not all of this is Mularkey’s fault, but he’s the fall guy and perhaps one of the most expendable head coaches in all of football. Arguments can be made for 31 other head coaches to retain their jobs but Mularkey has long bee a guy who we’ve always cocked a brow and shrugged our shoulders over. Those days are over, and if Tennessee doesn’t start turning things around, it won’t be a hard sell to potential head coaches to ask them to be the ones to walk hand-in-hand into the future with a franchise quarterback and potential carte blanche with front office decisions.