Grading every 2025 NFL coaching hire: Saints pull nice coup landing Kellen Moore - Feb 11, 2025

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Analyzing decisions made by NFL teams is inherently an exercise in asking to be cold takes roasted down the road. Whether it's preseason picks, week-to-week selections, draft grades or commentary on coaching hires, there's always going to be some things in this league that don't go according to plan or that go in the opposite direction of what we expect. 

You can try to rank quarterbacks in tiers with a semblance of nuance and the same list will be thrown back in your face for a different year later without the proper context. 

Which is a long way of saying, let's hand out some grades for the coaching hires this offseason! Yup, I'm going to grade all seven coaching hires and I fully expect at least one of them to completely blow up in my face in hilarious fashion within a year. 

Look at Dan Quinn in Washington -- a hire I liked but one that was treated to some "meh" responses because he was considered a retread -- and his success with the Commanders in Year 1. Bruce Arians in Arizona is a great example of a coaching hire that was panned and paid immediate dividends as well. 

I'm going to note it here and it probably won't ultimately matter when people come back with receipts, but I'm going to include the process of the team as part of the grade. I love Mike Vrabel, but I'm going to ding the Patriots for several reasons, whether it's panicking over the Jets interviewing him or treating the Rooney Rule as a traveshamockery in the process of hiring him. 

With that in mind, let's do something that is almost certainly going to end up getting roasted later and grade every single coaching hire so far.

Chicago Bears, Ben Johnson: A-
Las Vegas Raiders, Pete Carroll: B+
New England Patriots, Mike Vrabel: B+
Jacksonville Jaguars, Liam Coen: B-
Dallas Cowboys, Brian Schottenheimer: D
New Orleans Saints, Kellen Moore: B+

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Pete Carroll was a useless hire