Adam Gase, Doug Marrone, Dan Quinn among NFL coaches sitting on hot seats

NEW YORK — The heat is on — and the games haven’t even kicked off yet.

That’s life in the NFL for some coach­es who enter the reg­u­lar sea­son know­ing they need to guide their squads through what will be a most unusu­al reg­u­lar sea­son, and at least keep them in play­off con­tention into December.

Some might even need to reach the post­sea­son to avoid the unem­ploy­ment line.

While there’s still so much uncer­tain­ty out­side the foot­ball fields because of the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic, these coach­es can count on get­ting plen­ty of atten­tion for their work on NFL side­lines this season:

ADAM GASE, JETS

Sure, he has only been on the job for one sea­son, but his pre­vi­ous stint in Mia­mi — 23–25, and 0–1 in the play­offs — had many Jets fans skep­ti­cal when he was hired. The stun­ning inep­ti­tude of New York’s 32nd-ranked offense last sea­son only increased the crit­i­cisms of Gase, whose pri­ma­ry task is to help third-year quar­ter­back Sam Darnold make a leap in progress.

“He’s got a lot more con­trol of the offense this year,” Gase said of Darnold. “He’s not think­ing when the play comes in. It’s just more of a reac­tion now for him. He’s able to just real­ly process things so much faster.”

Gase, of course, dealt with Darnold miss­ing three games because of mononu­cle­o­sis, a shaky offen­sive line, key injuries and his own incon­sis­tent play call­ing. But, he brought the Jets back from a 1–7 start to fin­ish 7–9. Darnold was sol­id down the stretch and that pro­vid­ed a glim­mer of hope.

Team CEO Christo­pher John­son hasn’t issued a man­date for the Jets to make the play­offs, some­thing they haven’t done since the 2010 sea­son, and a slight dropoff in over­all record from last year might even be tol­er­at­ed — as long as Gase gets Darnold to pro­duce like a fran­chise-type quarterback.

DOUG MARRONE, JAGUARS

It’s hard to believe Jack­sonville was a win at New Eng­land away from mak­ing the Super Bowl three sea­sons ago. And, Mar­rone almost pulled it off with Blake Bor­tles as his quarterback.

The Jaguars are just a shell of that squad now, with Bor­tles, cor­ner­back Jalen Ram­sey, defen­sive ends Calais Camp­bell and Yan­nick Ngak­oue and run­ning back Leonard Four­nette all gone. So is Tom Cough­lin, who was fired as the team’s exec­u­tive vice pres­i­dent of foot­ball operations.

That has some won­der­ing if Jack­sonville is tank­ing this sea­son in favor of a rebuild — which would put Marrone’s job sta­tus in seri­ous jeopardy.

“I can’t speak for any­one else, but if that is the case, then the real­iza­tion is that if that hap­pens I’m not going to be here,” Mar­rone said. “At the end of the day, if I don’t win enough games or I don’t do enough with this team, I don’t fore­see me still being employed.”

MATT NAGY, BEARS

Wait, real­ly? Just two sea­sons removed from being select­ed the AP NFL Coach of the Year?

Well, maybe the seat’s more sort of warm than actu­al­ly hot. But like Gase and the Jets, Nagy’s future is like­ly tied to the per­for­mance of his quar­ter­back. And who that will be remains a big question.

Remem­ber, GM Ryan Pace and the Bears trad­ed up to No. 2 in 2017 — the year before Nagy arrived — to draft Mitchell Tru­bisky. After a shaky rook­ie sea­son, Tru­bisky appeared to take pos­i­tive steps under Nagy in 2018 while help­ing Chica­go to the play­offs. But the quar­ter­back took a big step back last sea­son and is now com­pet­ing with vet­er­an Nick Foles to be the starter.

Nagy’s choice will go a long way toward deter­min­ing the Bears’ sea­son — and his and Pace’s stand­ing with the franchise.

MATT PATRICIA, LIONS

After being one of Bill Belichick’s pro­teges in New Eng­land, Patri­cia came to Detroit with his bushy beard and win­ning pedi­gree. A 9–7 fin­ish in his first sea­son looked promis­ing. But since? Two straight last-place fin­ish­es in the NFC North and a 9–22‑1 record.

Quar­ter­back Matthew Stafford was hurt for half of last sea­son, so it’s tough to fault Patri­cia on that. But Detroit’s defense, which was sup­posed to be Patricia’s spe­cial­ty, hasn’t lived up to expec­ta­tions. The Lions fin­ished last in yards pass­ing allowed and sec­ond-to-last in total yards allowed. They also lost star cor­ner­back Dar­ius Slay in free agency, but draft­ed Jeff Oku­dah third over­all to help replace him.

One oth­er key change: coor­di­na­tor Cory Undlin will call the defen­sive plays instead of Patri­cia this season.

“It’s free reign where I get to help and some­times I see the game a lit­tle bit dif­fer­ent­ly from my lens as the head coach,” Patri­cia said.

DAN QUINN, FALCONS

That 28–3 half­time lead over New Eng­land in the Super Bowl four sea­sons ago is a dis­tant memory.

Atlanta made the play­offs again the fol­low­ing year and won in the wild-card round, but Quinn’s squad has con­sec­u­tive 7–9 fin­ish­es since. There was seri­ous doubt he’d even make it through last sea­son when the Fal­cons opened 1–7. But Quinn helped flip things around in the sec­ond half to end on a respectable note.

A bad start this year, though, might be tough to recov­er from for Quinn in his sixth sea­son. And the NFC South could be one of the NFL’s tough­est divi­sion with Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints, and the Tom Brady-led Tam­pa Bay Buccaneers.

SIMMERING SEATS: Vic Fan­gio, Bron­cos; Antho­ny Lynn, Charg­ers; Bill O’Brien, Tex­ans; and Zac Tay­lor, Bengals.

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