Someone check to just make sure that Andy Reid isn’t quietly scribbling a resignation letter on a napkin.
Short of that kind of stunner, what else is left that could happen during this unprecedented NFL coaching carousel to make things crazier than already is the case now that Mike Tomlin and John Harbaugh have gone from battling each other for the 40th time in a Steelers-Ravens game to both out of work in a matter of just nine days?
With Tomlin’s resignation from the Steelers on Tuesday, four of the 17 all-time winningest coaches are involved one way or another in this coaching cycle. In addition to Tomlin (193 wins, 10th), Harbaugh (180, 14th) and Pete Carroll (173, T-16th) were fired, and Mike McCarthy (174, 15th) is looking for his third job after taking a one-year hiatus.
That’s nearly 25 percent of the 17 winningest coaches of all time. The same percentage as coaches in that group who haven’t worked since at least the 1980s (George Halas, Tom Landry, Curly Lambeau and Paul Brown).
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
