Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while you could miss it. Sure, Ferris Bueller said that as a high schooler with big visions, but the same could be true about covering the NFL.
Because in an effort to get ahead of work for this coming week, I started writing this piece last Friday morning. Since the topic this week covers coaches who are potentially going to be looking for work come January, I figured I could get a head start and fill in details as the games were played this week.
I started my post-Thanksgiving workday with an easy one. It concluded as follows:
“As a matter of fact, I wrote this on Friday to get ahead of work this weekend. It might be moot by Monday.”
It sure was. Matt Patricia – along with general manager Dan Quinn – was fired on Saturday.
Here’s hoping the other coaches mentioned in this now updated piece avoid the same fate.