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senior NFL national reporter- Dan Graziano is a senior NFL national reporter for ESPN, covering the entire league and breaking news. Dan also contributes to Get Up, NFL Live, SportsCenter, ESPN Radio, Sunday NFL Countdown and Fantasy Football Now. He is a New Jersey native who joined ESPN in 2011, and he is also the author of two published novels.
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senior NFL national reporter- Jeremy Fowler is a senior national NFL writer for ESPN, covering the entire league including breaking news. Jeremy also contributes to SportsCenter both as a studio analyst and a sideline reporter covering for NFL games. He is an Orlando, Florida native who joined ESPN in 2014 after covering college football for CBSSports.com.
This, the season of the 17th regular-season game, requires slightly more patience for this coaching carousel. In past years, we might have had more clarity on how many NFL head-coaching jobs will open. Heck, the 2019 season brought two head-coach firings in the first six weeks.
But the latest collective bargaining agreement brings us more football, which means more playoff spots -- and more chances for coaches on the hot seat to save jobs. A little more than a month from now, 14 teams will have wrapped up a 17-game schedule and will prepare for the playoffs.
Couple that new dynamic with a pandemic that affected the wallets of team owners, and the hiring-and-firing cycle could be slimmer than usual. But who are we kidding? This is the NFL, where change is a formality and impatience is a way of life. There's one current opening -- the Raiders job -- and more will follow.
After checking around the league, we bring you an updated look at the 2021 coaching carousel, all the moves that could happen as the season ends and the names you need to know:
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Could there be a surprise opening (or two)?
Urban Meyer won't be one-and-done, right?
End of the road for Mike Zimmer in Minnesota?
Do the Raiders have candidates in mind yet?
Is Matt Rhule's job safe in Carolina?
The leading candidates for coaching/GM jobs
