Last year, we led this piece about the most favorable landing spots for new NFL head coaches with a warning that "predicting the future in the NFL is often an exercise in futility." Well, we clearly didn't heed our own advice because we're back here again a year later for another round of punishment.
Sure, the top-two situations we highlighted -- the Seattle Seahawks and Los Angeles Chargers -- went a combined 21-13, proof of their immediate payoff with new coaches Mike Macdonald and Jim Harbaugh. But the best record of all teams who got new coaches belonged to the Washington Commanders under Dan Quinn, a situation we admittedly said had future potential that was "less tangible, and therefore less predictable" with rookie QB Jayden Daniels . Of course, that was before Daniels we