Keeping Kubiak (Merged)

Artifactual said
Does the current HC Antonio Pierce for the Raiders qualify? 🤔

You’ll see upthread where I said a midseason firing could lead to a promotion from interim to permanent, but the Raiders are also doing damage control on very recent history in not doing exactly this for Rich Bisaccia three years ago.

Artifactual said
Or Jerod Mayo, now HC of the Patriots?

Promotion from a head coach stepping down, similar to how Dennis Allen is the coach here after Sean Payton stepped down.

I’ll continue to wait for “we were unhappy with the head coach so we fired him, but we promoted someone from his staff.” Tampa Bay did it with Dirk Koetter after Lovie Smith; he went 19-29 and was fired after three seasons, and they didn’t bother keeping the young quarterback he tutored past his rookie deal, either.