First NFL Head Coach to be Fired in 2015: Latest Odds
Bookmaker.eu was offering odds on the first NFL Head Coach to get sacked in 2015 with Redskins leader Jay Gruden a pretty big favorite at +250.
Sean Pendergast of the Houston Press says of Gruden:
Coming off a 4-12 season in which the "brains" behind the Cincinnati Bengals' offense the previous three seasons did nothing to cure the ills of the Redskins' anemic bunch (nor fix Robert Griffin III in any discernible way), Gruden was already on the short list to be at the top of this big board. However, he locked up the top spot after this flimsy, wussy quote after the fights between the Redskins and Texans at joint practice last weekend:
“I do wish we had that practice. We had some red zone, some two-minute, some great situational work we were going to do today. Unfortunately, we didn’t get it done. I think three days in a row is probably too much. These guys get a little...The third day in shorts, there is no way they can really fight ’cause there is no contact...I know [the opponents] are sick about what happened today, as we are, but that happened and we just have got to move on.”
But Pendergast believes it is Jim Tomsula of the San Francisco 49ers who will be shown the door first at +1200 odds.
Damn, for Tomsula it's probably a race to see what happens first — his firing or all of his players quitting. All you need to know about the Jim Tomsula Era we learned on the day he was introduced to replace Jim Harbaugh as head coach:
An earthquake would be a smaller disaster right now in San Francisco than Jim Tomsula's promotion to head coach.
Here are all your odds on the first coach to be ousted in 2015 courtesy of our good friends at Bookmaker.
1 Jay Gruden,Washington +250
2 Mike Pettine, Cleveland +550
3 Ken Whisenhunt, Tennessee +750
4 Jim Tomsula, San Francisco +1200
5 Joe Philbin, Miami +1500
5 Sean Payton, New Orleans +1500
7 Gus Bradley, Jacksonville +1800
8 Chip Kelly, Philadelphia +2000
8 Lovie Smith, Tampa Bay +2000
10 Jeff Fisher, St. Louis +2500
10 Jim Caldwell. Detroit +2500
12 Marvin Lewis. Cincinnati +2700
13 Mike Zimmer, Minnesota +3000
13 Bill O'Brien, Houston +3000
15 Tom Coughlin, New York Giants +3300
16 Jack Del Rio, Oakland +3500
16 John Fox Chicago, +3500
16 Andy Reid Kansas City +3500
16 Ron Rivera Carolina, +3500
20 Todd Bowles, New York Jets +4000
20 Mike McCoy, San Diego +4000
22 Rex Ryan, Buffalo +4500
22 Dan Quinn, Atlanta +4500
24 Jason Garrett, Dallas +5000
25 Gary Kubiak, Denver +6000
26 Mike Tomlin, Pittsburgh +7500
27 Bruce Arians, Arizona +10000
27 John Harbaugh, Baltimore +10000
29 Chuck Pagano, Indianapolis +15000
29 Mike McCarthy, Green Bay +15000
31 Pete Carroll, Seattle +25000
31 Bill Belichick, New England +25000
- Don Shapiro, Gambling911.com
