Google wasn’t much help and I was curious. There’s a loud contingent calling for Arthur Smith’s job. If the Falcons win the south but lose handedly in the first round of the playoffs, could he still be fired in the off season?
Jim Harbaugh?
In the NBA you can even get fired after taking your team to the finals lol
Mularkey for the Titans was fired after a 35-14 playoff loss to the Patriots in 2017 (they were 9-7)
Titans fired Mike Mularkey the offseason after winning a playoff game
Tony Dungy made a wild card in 2001, they lost in the first round, then got fired. Bucs won the super bowl in 2002 with Gruden.
Marty Schottenheimer is the famous one. Fired after going 14-2.
And that pretty much happened to Harbaugh too if we’re all being honest here.
Bengals fans wanted Marvin Lewis fired after every playoff loss if that counts. To be fair, he was probably some of the issue, the team wasn’t controlled enough at times causing some of those goof-ups that led to losses.
Jim Caldwell made the playoffs with Detroit in 2016 and was fired at the end of the 2017 season when they missed the playoffs.
TBF, Matt Stafford was pulling wins out of his ass on that 2016 team.
John Fox was fired even after making the playoffs and making a Super Bowl the year before. And he absolutely needed to get done.
Marty Schottenheimer got fired after a 14-2 season because the Chargers lost their playoff game
RIP Marty, but the Chargers would never have won a playoff game with him.
A glorious day that was
He got fired because he didnt get along with the GM.
Weren’t there rumors that Marty wasn’t all mentally there and showing signs of Alzheimer’s when the Chargers let him go? Apparently their two coordinators, Cam Cameron and Wade Phillips were the ones who were really running the team and both of them left to take head coaching jobs after the season.
That’s not why he was fired
Marty Schottenheimer, 14-2 and fired in 2006 due to differences with FO, they didn’t win a PO game though.
Dwayne Casey I think in the NBA was fired by the Raptors and won Coach Of The Year lololololol
Ted Nolan of NHL fame got fired by the Sabres after winning COTY because Hasek said he wouldn’t play another game for Nolan.
Plenty I’m sure. Nagy got fired at the end of 2021 after making the playoffs in 2020. Doug Pederson was fired in 2020 after making the playoffs in 2019.
Lovie Smith was close. Fired 2 years after making NFCCG, in a season he went 10-6 and just missed the playoffs based on divisional record tiebreaker.
Mularkey was fired a month or so after winning a playoff game resulting in the Vrabel hiring.