One day after the end of the 2025 NFL regular season, four teams have joined the coaching carousel.
The Tennessee Titans and New York Giants got a head start with in-season firings, and the Atlanta Falcons, Arizona Cardinals, Cleveland Browns and Las Vegas Raiders entered the fray with firings of their own.
Some recent moves were easier to explain than others. Below, we examine the good, bad and questionable of the NFL’s firing spree.
The Cardinals entered their bye last season at 6-4 and a puncher’s chance of reaching the playoffs. In the 24 games since, they’ve gone 5-19, with only the Tennessee Titans, who fired head coach Brian Callahan earlier this season, posting a worse win percentage during that span. (h/t Stathead).
Arizona regressed significantly in Year 3 under Gannon. After posting a positive point differential in 2024, the Cardinals were outscored by 133 points in 2025, their worst margin since Steve Wilks’ disastrous one-year run in 2018. Hired after serving as Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator, Arizona had one of the worst defenses in the league this season, ranking No. 29 in scoring (28.7 points per game) and No. 27 in total defense (357.7 yards per game).
As The Ringer’s Sheil Kapadia noted on social media, Gannon’s .294 win percentage is 200th of 207 coaches with at least 50 career games.