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Your NFL loser update: week 2, 2025.

Tuesday, September 16th, 2025

NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-17:

Kansas City
NY Jets
Miami
Cleveland
Tennessee
Houston
New York Football Giants
da Bears
New Orleans
Carolina

The worthless Chargers are 2-0.
The worthless Bills are 2-0.
Houston is 0-2.

I think it is time to start panicking.

More seriously, who do I think has a shot at the Owen 17 record? I can see Cleveland finishing 0-17. There’s historical precedent for that.

But something makes me think that one of the New York teams is more likely to finish out the season with no wins. I don’t know what is making me think that, and I could be wrong, but right now that’s the way I would bet.

In other news:

The Chicago White Sox are at 57-94, for a .377 winning percentage. That projects out to about 101 losses. And since my last update, they have been mathematically eliminated (the best kind of eliminated) from post-season play.

And the Colorado Rockies are at 41-109, for a .273 winning percentage. Right now, that projects out to about 118 losses. At this point, they can’t break the record set by the 2024 White Sox, but they can still tie it.

Also mathematically eliminated: the Pirates, the Nationals, the Angels, and the Twins. And the Tigers are at the top of their division, though they haven’t clinched yet. I’m hoping pigpen51 is happy.

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Your NFL loser update: week 1, 2025.

Tuesday, September 9th, 2025

NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-17:

Dallas
Kansas City
NY Jets
New England
Miami
Baltimore
Cleveland
Tennessee
Houston
New York Football Giants
da Bears
Detroit
Atlanta
New Orleans
Carolina
Seattle

The worthless Chargers won.
The worthless Bills won.
Detroit lost.
Houston lost.
Has the curse of Saylor Twift finally settled on Kansas City?

It is the first week of the season. I don’t think it is time to panic quite yet.

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Your loser update: September 4, 2025.

Thursday, September 4th, 2025

The NFL regular season begins tonight.

The NFL loser update will return on Tuesday, September 9th, since we have to wait for the Monday night game.

Meanwhile, it’s been a minute since I posted a baseball loser update. Lawrence sent over a link yesterday:

“Rockies, Freeland go down screaming as they hit loss No. 100”.

So how bad are things? Not as bad as you might think. And good enough to get me depressed, which is why I haven’t been posting.

The Chicago White Sox are at 52-88, for a .371 winning percentage. That projects out to about 102 losses.

And the Colorado Rockies are at 39-101, for a .279 winning percentage. Right now, that projects out to about 117 losses.

Looking at it another way, for the Rockies to beat the 2024 White Sox record, they would have to lose 21 out of the 22 games remaining. That’s theoretically possible, but call me when the pigs start flying.

One bright note, though: the Rockies are the first – and, as far as I can tell, only – team so far to be mathematically eliminated from post-season play.

On a side note that I don’t have any room for elsewhere, Lawrence also sent over this story about the Clippers paying $28 million to Kawhi Leonard through a fake job to get around the NBA salary cap.

I’d seen this story on Awful Announcing as well. It’s interesting, but I can’t get worked up over it: I’m absolutely convinced that, even if everything is true, the NBA and the Player’s Association won’t do anything about it.

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Obit watch: August 29, 2025.

Friday, August 29th, 2025

I know I’m drawing heavily from the NYT, but that’s where the interesting obits are today.

Jim Murray. He was the general manager of the Philadelphia Eagles from 1974 until 1983, including during their Super Bowl run in 1981. But that’s not what I think is notable.

The first facility opened in Philadelphia in 1974, the year Mr. Murray became, at 36, the National Football League’s youngest general manager. The daughter of Fred Hill, a tight end with the Eagles, had been diagnosed with leukemia. The team raised money for her; Mr. Murray was delegated to prolong the giving by looking for a related charitable cause.
He found a local pediatric oncologist, Dr. Audrey Evans, who told him that the most pressing need was to provide accommodation for families who brought their sick children to a hospital and often had to sleep in the corridor or in their cars.
Mr. Murray understood immediately. “He saw the way they were struggling and said, ‘We have to figure something out,’” his godson, the Philadelphia sports broadcaster Rob Ellis, said in an interview. “Then the idea bloomed and progressed. It started with the motivation to help his player.”

Know your stuff. Be a man. Look after your people.

Mr. Murray reached out to a Philadelphia advertising executive who handled the region’s McDonald’s account. Local McDonald’s restaurants agreed to donate money from a promotional drink — the Shamrock Shake — as long as the house could be named after the company’s emblematic clown.
The first Ronald McDonald House opened on Oct. 15, 1974, at 4032 Spruce Street in Philadelphia. There was room for seven families. Mr. Murray took to calling it the “McMiracle.”

Joan Mellen, biographer. She wrote 25 books about all sorts of subjects (Japanese film, the JFK assassination) but I wanted to highlight her because…one of her biographies was about Bobby Knight.

In early 1987, the irascible and authoritarian college basketball coach Bobby Knight called Temple University looking for Joan Mellen…
Mr. Knight was fuming about “A Season on the Brink,” a recent best-selling biography by the sportswriter John Feinstein that portrayed him as vulgar, sexist and out of control. Professor Mellen had just reviewed the book for The St. Petersburg Times, faulting it for misunderstanding its subject.
“Knight is, above all, a teacher,” she wrote. “Aggressively he gives his all. In this he is no different from the dedicated English or math teacher. The basketball players, like all students, are recalcitrant. They fight against learning. Knight’s advantage over other teachers lies in his access and control.”
On the phone, Mr. Knight was charming.
“You’re a professor of literature?” Professor Mellen later recalled him asking her. “I just wanted to tell you I really liked what you wrote.”
Professor Mellen began compulsively watching his games. She arranged to write a profile of him for The New York Times, which she later expanded into a best seller of her own: “Bob Knight: His Own Man.”

Bob Knight: His Own Man was negatively reviewed by many people, some of whom saw it as a shot across the bow of Mr. Feinstein. One of those people was Rick Telander in the New York Times Book Review.

Professor Mellen’s response was vintage Professor Mellen.
She castigated The Times in a letter to the editor, saying that Mr. Telander should not have reviewed her book because he worked for Sports Illustrated, which had published several negative articles about Mr. Knight. He was among the writers who had criticized the coach.
“Such breaches of journalistic ethics on the part of some sportswriters are a central theme of my book,” Professor Mellen wrote. “My focus, however, was Mr. Knight as a teacher, a topic not touched upon once by Mr. Telander, who is obviously adhering to some other agenda.”
The Times published an Editors’ Note saying that Mr. Telander should not have been chosen to review the book.

A.K. Best, fly tying guy.

Mr. Best was renowned for his mastery of the meticulous art of professional fly tying. He produced nearly weightless artificial lures that mimicked the midges, caddisflies and other bugs that fish eat; his specialty was dry flies, which float on the water’s surface.

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Mr. Best also wrote books and magazine articles, spoke at seminars and made instructional videos with the professorial tone of a pipe-smoking teacher, which he had been. (Pipe smoke helped keep the mosquitoes away while he fished.) Fly Fisherman magazine said, in a tribute after his death, that he “shaped the soul of modern fly fishing.”
For hours at a time, Mr. Best sat in his basement workshop in Boulder, using a vise, pliers, tweezers, a toothbrush, sprigs of feathers and other tools of the trade. He made the wings and tails of insect replicas by hand, for personal use and at a commercial pace of roughly 40 lures an hour and 36,000 a year for companies like Orvis, Umpqua Feather Merchants and Urban Angler. He was said to have attached a shoulder rest to his phone so he could keep tying while taking a call.
As he worked, he listened to classical music and jazz, accompaniment that dated to his earlier career as a music teacher and high school band director. He considered the precision required for tying flies similar to the exactitude of creating music.
“There’s no such thing as an unimportant detail in music,” Mr. Best told The Gazette of Colorado Springs in 2024. “The composer put that dot on the paper with an ink pen for a specific reason. Just like when you look at a picture of an insect, every dot is important.”

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His great skill was creating flies of a size and color that appeared natural, rather than store-bought, using the knowledge that no adult aquatic insects have fuzzy bodies; that flies should appear shiny and waxy, not translucent; that hair from a white-tailed deer could be used if elk hair was not available.
“You don’t need a fly so big you’re going to scare the hell out of a fish,” he said in a 2015 interview for the Montana State University Angling Oral History Project. In the same interview, he said, “If it’s the right color and floats, it’ll catch fish.”

There’s a Montana State University Angling Oral History Project? Awesome! President Trump, I want some of my tax money going there, please.

We fished some when I was a child, by which I mean we dangled lines in the water from fishing poles. I’ve never been fly fishing, but I find myself becoming more interested in both the sport itself and the literature surrounding it as I get older. Callahan and Company has fly fishing and angling books as one of their specialties, so I see a lot of fly fishing literature advertised in their catalogs. Much of it sounds fascinating.

I am seeing reports (especially from McThag) that Randall “Duke” Cunningham, Navy ace, former Congressman, and convicted and pardoned felon, has passed away. But I don’t have anything I can link yet.

Burning in Hell watch: Tran Trong Duyet, chief warden of the Hanoi Hilton.

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Today in fraud.

Friday, July 18th, 2025

Well, technically, Wednesday in fraud, but let us not quibble.

Brett Lemieux killed himself on Wednesday. He was 45.

Mr. Lemieux founded “MisterManCave”, a sports memorabilia site. I believe this is the site.

Before he killed himself, he made a post to Facebook claiming he’d sold “more than four million counterfeit items and surpassed $350 million in sales”. The Facebook account is down now, but the NYPost has an image of the post.

Lemieux was able to pull off the alleged large-scale counterfeit scheme by faking holograms, authentication stickers for sports collectibles, of some of the most prominent companies in sports memorabilia: Panini, Fanatics, Tri-Star, James Spence Authentics, Mill Creek Sports and GT Marketing, among others.
Lemieux would use the fake holograms to sell counterfeit memorabilia at a far lower price than the market, and he profited handsomely from that tactic.
In the Facebook post, Lemieux said he released 80,000 pieces of memorabilia into the market when Kobe Bryant died in 2020.

I care even less about sports memorabilia than I do about sports, but I am a connoisseur of fraud. And this is big fraud. I actually think this story is being underplayed right now: if Mr. Lemieux put four million counterfeit items out there on the memorabilia market with forged holograms, I think this is going to have a massive impact on the market.

“People have known about this guy. They’ve known his work. They know what he’s been up to,” well-known sports memorabilia expert Steve Grad told WRTV Indianapolis
“He has been at it for years and years. And he’s driven down the price of things. You know, you look at a Tom Brady autograph and Tom Brady’s value is affected drastically by this individual.”

But has anybody asked Ja Morant Guy for his opinion?

(“Ja Morant signed basketballs” on MisterManCave.)

Sightly more seriously, FotB RoadRich and I have been discussing the rules for crooks. It looks like Mr. Lemieux followed Rule 1: if you’re going to steal, steal big.

But it doesn’t look like he figured out Rule 2: have an exit plan. Steal enough money so you can live out the rest of your life comfortably in a country with no extradition treaty with the United States.

On a somewhat related to fraud note: Lloyd Howell resigned as executive director of the NFL Players Association on Thursday.

Howell’s tenure had come under scrutiny after several recent reports from ESPN and the “Pablo Torre Finds Out” podcast.
In May, ESPN reported that the FBI was investigating the financial dealings of the NFLPA and the MLB Players Association related to a multibillion-dollar group-licensing firm, OneTeam Partners. According to sources, the report triggered the NFLPA to hire Ronald C. Machen of law firm Wilmer Hale to review Howell’s activities as executive director. The FBI investigation, which is being conducted in conjunction with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, New York, is continuing, sources said.

Even better, Mr. Howell’s expenses are being examined. In particular…the strippers. Always with the strippers.

…Howell charged the union for two visits to strip clubs, including a $738.82 car service that took him from the airport to one of the clubs.

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One receipt, obtained by ESPN, shows Howell was picked up in a sedan by a car service at Fort Lauderdale International Airport on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023, at 10:26 p.m. The car’s first stop was at a nearby Miami Gardens address. The receipt shows only one other stop, nearly eight hours later.
At 6 a.m., the car dropped off Howell at his luxury condominium in Sunny Isles Beach, the receipt shows.
Later, a union finance worker noticed the car service’s exorbitant cost. The employee searched online for the Miami Gardens address, discovering it was Tootsie’s Cabaret.
The 76,000-square-foot venue bills itself as the world’s largest strip club — “full nude No. 1 rated.”

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During this year’s NFLPA summit on Feb. 21, Howell accompanied the employees to the Magic City strip club for an outing that incurred $2,426 in charges including cash withdrawals, ranging from $200 to $525, from a club ATM, sources and documents show. They used two “VIP rooms.”
According to the expense report, the purpose of the strip club outing: “Player Engagement Event to support & grow our Union.”

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The employee noted on a March 23 expense report: “$736 = This was the final amount I was charged to close the tab for both secluded sections for our Player Members. This included Food, Alcoholic Drinks, fees, taxes, and gratuity.” No players’ names are listed on receipts or the reports.

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Obit watch: July 17, 2025.

Thursday, July 17th, 2025

Connie Francis. NYT.

She made her stage debut at 4, singing “Anchors Aweigh” and accompanying herself on the accordion at Olympic Park in Irvington, N.J.
At 11, she was a regular on “Marie Moser’s Starlets,” a local television variety show. After she appeared on Ted Mack’s “Original Amateur Hour” and “Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts,” Mr. Mack advised her to lose the accordion, and Mr. Godfrey advised her to change her last name to Francis.

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“I often say, I’d like to be remembered not for the highs I’ve reached but for the depths from which I’ve risen,” she told Mr. James. “There were exhilarating highs and abysmal lows. But it was fighting to get out of those lows that I feel most proud of.”

Joanna Bacon, British actress. Other credits include “The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells”, “The Bill”, and “EastEnders”.

Bryan Braman, former NFL linebacker. (Hattip: Lawrence.)

Braman was part of the first playoff team in Texans history after signing with Houston as an undrafted free agent out of West Texas A&M. He was a regular on Houston’s special teams, with his most memorable moment coming in a helmet-less tackle of a Tennessee Titans kick returner in the 2011 regular-season finale. Braman was also a 2012 Pro Bowl alternate with Houston, and he finished his career with four years with the Philadelphia Eagles.

This is just in, and should be considered breaking news: Felix Baumgartner, noted skydiver and daredevil.

In 1999, he set the world record for the highest parachute jump from a building when he took a leap from the 1,483-foot Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
That same year, he set a record for the lowest BASE jump ever, hurtling himself from the 85-foot arm of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro.
Then in 2003, Baumgartner became the first person to skydive across the English Channel with the help of a custom-designed carbon fiber wing, leaping from the craft at a height of more than six miles over Dover, England before landing safely in Cap Blanc-Nez in France.
His most famous jump was in 2012, when Baumgartner jumped 24 miles from a helium balloon, reaching a top speed of Mach 1.25 (843.6 mph) and becoming the first person to ever break the sound barrier without a vehicle.
He descended from the stratosphere in full free-fall for four minutes and 19 seconds before deploying his parachute.

This broke Joe Kittinger’s old record. (Col. Kittinger assisted with planning the jump.)

The 56-year-old Austrian extreme sports enthusiast reportedly fell ill while flying a motorized paraglider in the Italian coastal town of Porto Sant’Elpidio, crashing the craft into a hotel swimming pool.
He reportedly died instantly during the freak accident, according to media reports. A hotel employee was also injured after being struck by the glider and taken to the hospital with neck injuries.

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Obit watch: June 3, 2025.

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025

Shigeo Nagashima, one of the great Japanese baseball players.

Along with his teammate Sadaharu Oh, Japan’s home run king, Nagashima was the centerpiece of the country’s most enduring sports dynasty. He hit 444 home runs, had a lifetime batting average of .305, won six batting titles and five times led the league in runs batted in. He was a five-time most valuable player and was chosen as the league’s top third baseman in each of his 17 seasons. He was inducted into Japan’s Baseball Hall of Fame in 1988.
In his first season, 1958, he led the league in home runs and was second in stolen bases and batting average, earning him rookie of the year honors. And then, early in his second season, he made history in the first game attended by a Japanese emperor, Hirohito, and an empress, Nagako. In the bottom of the ninth inning, Nagashima hit a 2-2 pitch into the left field stands for a game-winning home run, considered one of the most dramatic sports events in Japanese history.
One of Nagashima’s trademarks was his work ethic, a character trait that was particularly celebrated during Japan’s postwar rise. Under the guidance of manager Tetsuharu Kawakami, Nagashima practiced from dawn to dusk, enduring an infamous 1,000-fungo drill that required him to field ground ball after ground ball. In the off-season, he trained in the mountains, running and swinging the bat to the point of exhaustion. He bought a house by the Tama River in Tokyo so he could run there, and he added a room to his home where he could practice swinging.

Baseball Reference.

Jim Marshall, defensive end for the Minnesota Vikings.

Marshall joined the Vikings in their inaugural season in 1961 and played in every game thereafter. His record of 282 consecutive games played (270 with the Vikings), which he established upon retiring in 1979, stood until quarterback Brett Favre broke it — while also in a Vikings uniform — in 2009.

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Marshall gained a permanent place in NFL Films lore in 1964 when he returned a fumble the wrong way in a game against the San Francisco 49ers, celebrating what he thought was a touchdown but instead was scored a safety. But his career accomplishments far outweighed that gaffe.
He was a Vikings captain for 14 seasons and appeared in four Super Bowls as part of the franchise’s famed Purple People Eaters defense. Although sacks did not become an official statistic until 1982, a research project coordinated by Pro Football Reference credited him with 130.5, which would tie him for No. 22 in NFL history.

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Obit watch: May 22, 2025.

Thursday, May 22nd, 2025

Jim Irsay. NYT. ESPN.

A lover of rock and roll, Irsay spent millions of dollars collecting rare and significant guitars like Les Paul’s 1954 Gibson Black Beauty, Prince’s Yellow Cloud and David Gilmour’s famed Black Strat. Irsay also owned the manuscript of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” and the original manuscript of Alcoholics Anonymous, the text that spawned the rehabilitation group. Irsay’s twin passions of music and rare collections culminated in the Jim Irsay Collection, an exhibit of Irsay’s rare items that has traveled the country, and The Jim Irsay Band, a collection of musicians who’ve traveled and played together since 2021, sometimes in conjunction with a display of The Jim Irsay Collection and sometimes in its own concert. For the past two seasons, Irsay and his band have opened the season by playing a free Colts Kickoff Concert at Lucas Oil Stadium, along with a display of the Jim Irsay Collection for Colts fans to enjoy.

George Coulam, also known as “King George”. He founded the Texas Renaissance Festival.

In 2024, the HBO docuseries “Ren Faire” focused on the festival’s succession and Coulam’s eventual retirement, highlighting the tension between his desire to find a romantic partner and his need to choose a successor. It also highlighted Coulam’s strict leadership style.
There have been ongoing legal disputes and potential sales of the festival, with a recent judge’s order in early May mandating the sale of Coulam’s properties, including the festival.

Michael McStay, British actor. Other credits include “EastEnders”, “The Persuaders!”, and “The Sweeney”.

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Obit watch: April 25, 2025.

Friday, April 25th, 2025

Lawrence sent over an obit for Steve McMichael, legendary Chicago Bear.

Though somewhat small for a defensive lineman at 6 feet 2 inches and 270 pounds, McMichael possessed immense strength and slippery quickness. He starred on a defense that included three other future Hall of Famers: the defensive ends Hampton and Dent and the linebacker Mike Singletary. He played in 191 consecutive games for the Bears and 12 more in the playoffs, a franchise record.

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McMichael reveled in an exaggerated, untamed persona. His nicknames included Ming the Merciless, after the tyrant in “Flash Gordon,” and Mongo, after the dimwitted ruffian who punches out a horse in the Mel Brooks comedy “Blazing Saddles.”

Lulu Roman, perhaps most famous for “Hee Haw”.

Roman appeared on the first episode of CBS’ Hee Haw in June 1969 and on the last one, with the show in syndication, in June 1993. During its impressive run, she reinvented herself as a gospel singer, and she would release more than a dozen albums, perform in concert and record with the likes of Dolly Parton. (Watch and hear her sing “Crazy” here).

IMDB.

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This one goes out to pigpen51.

Tuesday, April 8th, 2025

We run a full service blog here. And this time, we remembered to stop and get photos on our way out of town.

Even better, the weather on Monday was actually nice, after dealing with cold, rain, and overcast from Wednesday night through Sunday night.

Interestingly (well, to me) the Billy Sims Barbecue we went to on our last trip has moved. The new location replaces a shabu-shabu place that both Mike the Musicologist and I liked. And it looked like whatever went in where the old location was has also closed.

But: they did take the statue with them. There’s a large empty plinth in front of the old location, though. I’m not sure what you can do with an empty plinth, other than put a replacement statue on it. But given there’s nothing at that location right now…

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Firings watch.

Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025

Trent Baalke is out as general manager of the Jacksonville Jaguars.

“Following several discussions with Trent Baalke this week, we both arrived at the conclusion that it is in our mutual best interests to respectfully separate, effective immediately,” Jaguars owner Shad Khan said in a statement.

Sounds sort of like a combined resignation-firing, so I’m chalking it up as a firing.

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Firings watch.

Monday, January 13th, 2025

This is still breaking, but: Mike McCarthy is supposedly out as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys.

ESPN, who is attributing this to “a source”.

McCarthy’s contract with the Cowboys expired last Wednesday but the team held an exclusive negotiating window with the coach until Tuesday at midnight. However, the sides have not had any negotiations regarding a new deal, sources told Schefter on Monday.

The Cowboys compiled a 49-35 record in McCarthy’s five seasons. Tom Landry and Jason Garrett are the only coaches in franchise history with more victories.

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Firings watch.

Friday, January 10th, 2025

On Tuesday, the Las Vegas Raiders fired Antonio Pierce as head coach.

Yesterday, they fired Tom Telesco as general manager. One season, 4-13.

In other news, Sean Dyche is out as manager of Everton. Everton is apparently a soccer team.

Everton are 16th in the Premier League, having scored just 15 goals in 19 games. Only bottom-placed Southampton have managed fewer.

(I would have sworn I posted this yesterday, but I just found this in my drafts. Apologies.)

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Firings watch.

Tuesday, January 7th, 2025

Bloody Monday felt like sort of a nothing burger. I think what we may see is firings trickling out over the course of the week.

Starting with today: Ran Carthon out as general manager of the Tennessee Titans.

Under his supervision, the team went 9-25, including a 3-14 record in 2024, a season in which Carthon was said to have had final say over the team’s roster and personnel decisions.

The Titans, by the way, have the number one pick in the upcoming NFL draft. Also by the way, they are keeping Brian Callahan as head coach.

“I’ve loved the time I’ve spent with Ran. He’s a talented football mind, a great man, and friend to everyone along his path,” Adams Strunk said in the statement. “It’s impossible to ignore that our football team hasn’t improved over the past two years. I am deeply disappointed in our poor win-loss record during this period, of course, but my decision also speaks to my concern about our long-term future should we stay the course.”

Personally, I’d like to see Carthon, Callahan, Amy Adams Strunk, and every other person who was involved with the Titans wearing Houston Oilers throwback uniforms placed in stocks in front of the stadium and pelted with rocks and garbage.

ESPN.

Brian Schneider out as special teams coach of the San Francisco 49ers, who were 6-11 this year.

In San Francisco’s lost season, special teams’ errors seemed to happen nearly every week, including missed field goals, successful fake punts allowed, costly penalties, muffed return attempts and a middling punting unit.

Edited to add: ESPN is reporting that Antonio Pierce has been fired as head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders. This seems to be backed up by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, but that’s not a great newspaper, so I’m sticking with ESPN.

The Raiders were 4-13 this season: Pierce came on as an interim coach in 2023 (and went 5-4), and this was his first and only full season.

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Monday, Bloody Monday.

Monday, January 6th, 2025

This is your official thread for today’s NFL coach firings. I will try to keep this thread updated throughout the day, but I have some things going on later in the afternoon that may interfere.

Doug Pederson out as head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars. (That link may give you trouble about your ad blocker, but if you reload that seems to clear it. Archive.is seems to be having problems right now, or I would put up the archive version.) 4-13 this season, and 22-29 in Pederson’s three seasons. However, the team is keeping Trent Baalke as GM. ESPN.

Interestingly, the New York Football Giants have apparently decided to keep general manager Joe Schoen and head coach Brian Daboll, even though the team finished 3-14 this season and 6-11 last year.

Edited to add: “Sources say” Lou Anarumo is out as defensive coordinator of the Cincinnati Bengals.

Not a NFL firing, but Wes Goodwin is out as defensive coordinator at Clemson.

Edited to add: Ryan Grubb out as offensive coordinator of the Seahawks according to “sources”.

The NYPost is running their own “Black Monday” ticker as well.

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