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25 October 2006
Odds Are Dennis Green Will Be
First NFL Coaching Casualty
We're only seven weeks
into the NFL season and already the contenders have begun to
separate themselves from the pretenders. Several head
coaches are already starting to feel the heat as their teams
are failing to meet pre-season expectations. With a number
of teams off to a slow start, Pinnacle
Sports have
announced updated odds on which current NFL coach will be
the first to lose his job.
The largest sports betting
site on the Internet, Pinnacle Sports has created individual
odds on 12 NFL head coaches becoming the first coaching
casualty this season. After following up a choke job of
historic proportions on Monday Night versus Chicago, with a
loss last Sunday to the lowly Raiders, it's no surprise that
Arizona's Dennis Green is the odds-on favorite to become the
first coach to get his walking papers at 1/1 odds (i.e., win
$1 for every $1 bet). While only in his second year at the
helm, Romeo Crennel (7/1) might be on the verge of losing
his job in Cleveland as the team continues to falter and
just this week, offensive coordinator Maurice Carthon
resigned. Although widely considered the worst team in the
NFL, Art Shell (8/1) may get some leeway from Al Davis in
Oakland knowing that the team is in full rebuilding mode.
With a shocking 1-6 start to the season, the playoff
aspirations in Miami are all but gone and Pinnacle Sports
now lists the chances of the previously unthinkable firing
of Nick Saban at 9/1.
"Several media reports
already indicate that unless Arizona wins at Green Bay this
weekend, Dennis Green might not make it through the team's
Week 9 bye as head coach of the Cardinals," said Simon Noble
of Pinnacle Sports. "If blowing a 20-point halftime lead on
Monday Night Football and exploding at the post-game press
conference weren't enough, Arizona were then dominated by
the previously winless Raiders - a sure sign that Green's
days are numbered. The race to become the first NFL coaching
casualty would even be hotly contested without Green in the
equation as Crennel, Shell and Saban all appear to be firmly
headed for the chopping block."
The oddsmakers at Pinnacle
Sports list Buffalo's Dick Jauron at 11/1 odds to get his
walking papers first, even though he's only in his first
season leading the Bills. Veteran coaches Jeff Fisher (13/1)
and Joe Gibbs (13/1) are also solid candidates to become the
first coaching casualty this season as their teams have
combined for a total of just three wins. San Francisco's
Mike Nolan and Detroit's Rod Marinelli, who are in the midst
of rebuilding projects with their teams, have both been
listed at 15/1. Although Tampa Bay has rallied for
back-to-back wins after starting 0-5 this year, Pinnacle
Sports still lists head coach Jon Gruden at 24/1 to become
the first coach to get his pink slip this year. Meanwhile,
head coach of the reigning Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh
Steelers, Bill Cowher, and first year coach Mike McCarthy of
Green Bay, are both listed as long shots to be the first
coaching casualty at 31/1.
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