Tom Coughlin out as head coach of the New York Football Giants. ESPN. It seems that this is being spun as a resignation, though I suspect it was more “mutual agreement”.
The Tennessee Titans are “not renewing the contract” of general manager Ruston Webster. You may recall that they fired head coach Ken Whisenhunt in November.
The Chargers have fired offensive coordinator Frank Reich, but apparently plan to keep Mike McCoy as head coach.
Bad time for cinematographers.
Both the LAT and the A/V Club are reporting the passing of noted cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond.
He won an Oscar for “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”, and worked on a whole boatload of other stuff: “Deliverance”, “The Deer Hunter”, “The Long Goodbye”, “Sugarland Express”…
In the immortal words of Snoop, “Damn… you ain’t even wait to get the (expletive deleted) in the house!”
Jim Tomsula out after one season (5-11) with the San Francisco 49ers.
Head coach Mike Pettine and general manager Ray Farmer out in Cleveland.