Several NFL coaches are feeling the pressure with Week 8 here, and the temperature is climbing fast in a few places around the league. After 10 coaching jobs opened last offseason, more changes could be coming soon. The hottest seats right now belong to Shane Steichen, Aaron Glenn, Jim Harbaugh, Dan Quinn and Nick Sirianni.
Shane Steichen tops the list, and it’s hard to see a clean path for him to survive in Indianapolis. Chris Ballard’s dismissal only adds to the instability, and the Colts might make Steichen’s situation even tougher if they deal away some of their best players before the trade deadline.
The bigger issue, though, has been at quarterback. Ballard gets the heavier share of the blame for drafting Anthony Richardson with the No. 4 overall pick in the 2023 NFL Draft, but Steichen has also been tied to Richardson’s lack of progress.
His run in Indianapolis took a major turn when Daniel Jones suffered a season-ending injury last season. The Colts opened 2025 at 8-2 before finishing 8-9 after 44-year-old Philip Rivers couldn’t stop the collapse.
This year, they’re 2-5 and still getting poor quarterback play. At this point, Steichen’s tenure reads like a warning sign: when the most important position keeps unraveling, the coach usually pays for it.
Aaron Glenn is next, and the Jets have given him plenty of reasons to be sweating. His clock management came under fire in the loss to previously winless Miami, when he let the Dolphins burn most of the clock at the end of the first half and stretch the lead to 14 points.
That moment only added to New York’s brutal track record in the final two minutes before halftime. Since the start of last season, the Jets have been outscored 107-6 in those situations.
The divisional numbers are just as ugly. New York is 0-8 against division opponents since the start of the 2025 season.
Before hiring Glenn, Woody Johnson said he wanted to be more patient after firing Saleh and former general manager Joe Douglas during the 2024 season, but that patience may not last if the losses keep piling up.
Jim Harbaugh’s Chargers have somehow found a way to make a bad season look even worse. Los Angeles is now the NFL’s only winless team after the Dolphins beat the Jets on Sunday, and the losing is only part of the story.
The offense ranks last in the league in points scored, and Justin Herbert looks nothing like the former Pro Bowler who set an NFL rookie record with 31 touchdown passes in 2020. Herbert’s regression is the central argument against Harbaugh, who was hired to lift Herbert’s career and instead has watched him flounder while the team has fallen apart.
The Chargers’ playoff-win drought is on track to reach eight years by season’s end, and the whole mess is unfolding exactly 20 years after Dean Spanos fired Marty Schottenheimer following a 14-2 regular season.
Dan Quinn has been under the microscope since Washington’s strange clock management late in the Week 5 tie against the Giants, a mistake that came in between two losses that left the Commanders at 1-4-1 heading into their Week 7 bye. The early shine from Quinn’s first season in Washington has worn off quickly.
The Commanders are 6-16-1 since their 2024 NFC Championship game run, and things may be heading in the wrong direction again after Terry McLaurin was lost for the season with a knee injury in the Week 6 loss to the 49ers. There are a few reasons for optimism, though.
Jayden Daniels is healthy and looks more like the 2024 version of himself, rookie linebacker Sonny Styles appears to be developing into a real piece, and Washington plays in a winnable NFC East where every team has a losing record.
Nick Sirianni rounds out the top five, and his situation is the most unusual of the bunch. It’s hard to hang the Eagles’ problems entirely on him when the injuries have piled up.
Philadelphia was without Jalen Hurts, DeVonta Smith, Dontayvion Wicks and Nolan Smith in Monday night’s 38-21 loss to the Cowboys, and Saquon Barkley played but was clearly limited in the second half because his hamstring remains an issue. Even so, the Eagles were slipping before Hurts ever entered the picture.
They started with two unimpressive wins, then got blown out in Week 3 by a Bears team that didn’t have Caleb Williams. Soon after, they lost two-fifths of their starting offensive line when Lane Johnson retired and Cam Jurgens was traded to Baltimore.
This is now the second straight season Philadelphia has fallen well short of expectations, and the collapse since the Super Bowl win has put Sirianni’s future beyond this season in real jeopardy.
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