The pressure is already rising on three NFL head coaches, and Week 10 could sharpen the spotlight even more. Washington, Dallas and Los Angeles are all dealing with very different problems, but each situation has started to point back to the man on the sideline.
Dan Quinn is sitting in the hottest seat of the group in Washington. The Commanders have been hit hard by injuries, but that hasn’t erased the bigger questions around the team.
Quinn’s clock management has drawn attention, and so have his answers to some media questions. The roster still needs more weapons for Jayden Daniels and a better offensive line, and the article’s view is blunt: there are too many issues with this team, and Dan Quinn is at the top.
Dallas is another team under the microscope, and Brian Schottenheimer is feeling it. The Cowboys have talent on offense with Dak Prescott, Javonte Williams and CeeDee Lamb, and there’s even a question about whether George Pickens could be moved for a defensive piece.
But the bigger problem is the same one that keeps showing up week after week: the Cowboys keep blowing leads, and they still haven’t figured out why they can’t get their defense off the field. Schottenheimer is being asked to get more out of his players, and right now, that part isn’t going well.
The NFC East race is still open, though, and the next chance to change the mood comes Sunday against the Indianapolis Colts.
Then there’s Jim Harbaugh and the Chargers, a team that has not shown much through the first seven weeks. They still haven’t won a game, and the article describes the operation as dysfunctional.
Justin Herbert is playing badly, and Harbaugh has refused to sit him. The piece also says Mike McDaniel’s hiring has been a huge miss after the offseason hype, and that the Chargers look non-competitive.
It points out that the NFL hasn’t seen a team go 0-16 since the 2017 Browns.
All three teams are being painted with the same harsh brush: bad football, a broken locker room, and coaches running out of answers. The Commanders’ coach has been exposed repeatedly in the media for not knowing when they get the ball or which players they’re facing.
The Cowboys’ window is closing because of poor defense. And the Chargers, according to the article, need new coaching and a different culture because Jim Harbaugh is going to be out of a job soon.
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