Mike Florio

The Buccaneers are the first team that comes to mind because it seems like they're figuring out what to do with Todd Bowles, who went to three straight.

division championships but his record's 35 and 33 and they've seen a revolving door of offensive coordinators who are going on to be successful elsewhere now Harbaugh is not an offensive coordinator or a defensive coordinator he was a long time special teams coach but that was the first team I thought of another team that came to mind because I've been reading the tea leaves as it relates to the team that's coming back to Chicago on Saturday night for a playoff game

When Ed Policy became the president of the Packers, he said that there would be no new contracts for Coach Matt LaFleur or GM Brian Gutekunst before the end of the 2025 season.

Both are signed through 2026.

Policy also made it clear he's not a fan of lame duck arrangements.

So that makes 2025 an up or out year for both guys.

And when you consider that the Packers have made it the past three years as the seventh seed, if they hadn't expanded the playoffs in 2020, the Packers would be on a four-year run.

of no playoffs i i can't help but wonder whether or not the current president of the packers called the son of former packers president bob harlan and said don't make any decisions until next week and again that's all speculation but brian harlan caused the speculation by specifically saying seven teams called he knew what that meant and he knew what it was going to do and i think one of the teams we need to look at is the green bay packers also the miami dolphins hey

It was in 2011 that Stephen Ross tried to hire Jim Harbaugh while he still had a head coach in Tony Sperano.

So why wouldn't the Dolphins call about John Harbaugh at a time when it feels very tenuous about Mike McDaniel in Miami?

That is the biggest challenge when trying to figure out what the owners are going to do.

If we will concede that we collectively have a rational mind, it is difficult for those with a rational mind to predict the behaviors of the irrational.

And so many of these teams that are bad, they're bad for a reason.

The dysfunction flows from the top of the organization, although please don't call the Browns dysfunctional.

Jimmy Haslam has asked nicely that we no longer call the Browns dysfunctional.

But that's the problem.

Yes, but we don't know what these owners are going to want to do.

And you're right.

It all comes down to what they choose to do.

That's how I framed it on Sunday when we talked about Harbaugh's situation.