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Aaron Glenn owns the NFL’s hottest seat after a 3-14 season, but did the Jets ever give him a roster worth winning with? Todd Bowles has three NFC South titles in Tampa Bay and one playoff win to show for it, so how much longer does that buy him? Ten head coaching jobs turned over in the 2026 offseason, and the coaches who kept theirs are the ones now coaching for their futures.
We cover all this, plus Dan Quinn’s rebuilt Washington defense and the rest of the coaches walking into 2026 with real questions attached to their job security, in a definitive five-deep ranking hosted by PFN’s Jacob Infante. Some of these seats are warm due to a collapse. Others are warm because of four straight seasons of decent-and-nothing-more, which is its own kind of problem when the roster is supposed to be ready. History says fewer jobs open after an offseason this busy, so the margin for a slow start is thinner than usual. The 2026 season decides which of these five earn another year and which franchises hand the building over to a new voice.
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The Hottest Takes You’ll Hear
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*Aaron Glenn’s Jets did not force a single interception in 2025, making them the only team since the statistic started being recorded in the 1930s to go an entire season without one, and Geno Smith arrives off a rough Las Vegas year as the fix.
*Todd Bowles is 35-33 in Tampa Bay with a 1-3 postseason record across three trips, and a last-place finish in a division where Carolina, New Orleans, and Atlanta all got better this offseason ends the argument for a sixth year.
*Shane Steichen is the only head coach with three or more years in his current job who has never reached the playoffs, and Indianapolis enters 2026 with a thinner roster on both sides of the ball and no first-round pick to point to.
*Zac Taylor is the only coach still in the same job since 2019 with a losing record, and Cincinnati has missed the playoffs three straight years in the middle of Joe Burrow’s prime despite a defense-heavy draft and additions like Jonathan Allen.
*Dan Quinn’s Washington defense finished second-worst in PFN’s defense impact score in 2025, one year after a 12-5 season and an NFC Championship Game trip, and he opens 2026 with as many as seven new projected starters.
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