Which hires for current NFL openings would create most drama?

Dan Pitcher | With Pitcher, the Cincinnati Bengals offensive coordinator, not among the many preliminary candidates to receive a second interview, his probabilities of touchdown the Browns job seem slim. That might be for the best, though making the in-state transfer would have strengthened the AFC North rivalry.

If the Browns forged a wider internet, Indianapolis Colts defensive coordinator Lou Anarumo, who was fired by the Bengals final offseason, would additionally add a private contact to subsequent season’s Bengals-Browns video games. Hiring Payments offensive coordinator Joe Brady, who coached Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow and extensive receiver Ja’Marr Chase at LSU, can be one other intriguing storyline for 2026.

Invoice Belichick | We’re veering into the realm of the unlikely, however after firing McDermott, there is not one other coach as confirmed as Belichick. He is been embroiled in a petty back-and-forth with New England Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft within the years since their relationship fractured, with each taking photographs on the different final yr.

Kraft told reporters hiring Belichick in 1999 was a “huge danger,” saying, “I gave up a No. 1 draft decide for a coach that had solely received slightly over 40% of his video games to get him out.”

Belichick, who spurned the New York Jets to hitch the Patriots, fired again in feedback to ESPN.

“I had been warned by a number of earlier Patriots’ coaches, in addition to different members of different NFL organizations and the media, that the New England job was going to return with many inner obstacles,” Belichick mentioned. 

It is time the confrontation will get settled on the sphere.

Mike Tomlin | Tomlin did not step down after 19 years as Steelers head coach to take one other teaching job. That does not imply the Ravens ought to simply let him waltz right into a plum studio analyst gig (or a season away from the game) earlier than making an attempt so as to add petrol to the league’s most fiery rivalry.

“Holy s—, would not that be superior,” proprietor Steve Bisciotti mentioned earlier in January in regards to the prospect of hiring Tomlin, below the situation that fired Ravens coach John Harbaugh, who has since signed a five-year, $100 million contract with the New York Giants, be a part of the Steelers. C’est la vie.