Mike Florio

It fits with the timeline of the NFL.

Maybe you have to adjust the timeline.

I don't know.

But it does create issues and it's another challenge for a coach of a successful team to have to keep everyone focused on the task at hand when they're naturally going to be thinking about possible promotions elsewhere.

Well, I think about where we were a week ago.

We had a pretty good idea that the Raiders and the Browns are going to change coaches beyond that.

Nobody knew.

Nobody knew the Cardinals were going to change coaches, even though Michael Bidwell, the owner of the team, had to have known.

Had to have known.

You don't go to bed the night after you finish 3-14 and wake up the next day with a lightning bolt moment that you're going to change your coach.

And there's that video that's out there of Bidwell seeking out Jonathan Gannon for this bear hug.

In hindsight, it was Michael Corleone and Fredo at New Year's Eve.

That's what that was.

Because he knew damn well what was happening the next day.

So...

We're at seven, almost a fourth of the league, and that's not atypical.

That's the way it works in the NFL.

Because it's a zero-sum game with 272 games, there's a winner and there's a loser, except for a tie, which happened, what, once this year.

There are going to be good teams, there are going to be bad teams.

And the bad teams are going to feel pressure to become good teams.