The conclusion of the NFL regular season inevitably triggers an annual personnel bloodletting, as head coaches who failed to meet great expectations are dismissed.
So as this year’s class of fired coaches takes shape and those unfortunate figures are cast overboard as flotsam and jetsam, Touchdown Wire decided to rank the most disastrous coaching tenures in league history.
Hue Jackson, Urban Meyer, Bobby Petrino are just a few of the coaches who embarked with lofty goals only to watch them unravel in front of the entire sports world.
With all that in mind, we present a subjective list of the worst coaching tenures in NFL history. We factored team performance, level of dysfunction and bizarre happenings into our reasoning.
Did we overlook your favorite coaching failure? Add it to the comments section below.