The New Orleans Saints fired head coach Dennis Allen during the 2024 NFL season amid their disappointing year.

The Jets have launched their head coaching search, and Ron Rivera and Rex Ryan are a couple of the early candidates.

For some of those teams, that will involve finding new head coaches and/or General Managers. Three teams fired their head coaches during the season and two more have been dispatched as of 9 a.m. ET on January 6.

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Jerry Jones' head coach search history is fairly easily definable. Over the course of time, the candidates have generally come from two pools.

The phrase opposites attract has commonly been used in reference to the dating world, but it also applies to NFL head coaching searches. Over the years, there has been a track record of NFL teams targeting head coaching candidates with a background opposite to that of who they fired.

The NFL coaching carousel is spinning slowly. The Jets, Saints and Bears got a head start in their searches because they fired coaches during the season. The Jaguars and Raiders joined the hunt last week. The Cowboys jumped in Monday so they have to wait to interview assistants on playoff teams because the first window passed.

The New York Jets interviewed New Orleans Saints interim coach Darren Rizzi on Saturday for their head coach vacancy.

Add the challenges that already existed in coaching college football, and it’s a lot.

After just one year with the Packers, the New Orleans Saints brought McCarthy on as their offensive coordinator. He'd be with the Saints until 2004, overseeing one of the NFL's most explosive offenses. McCarthy left New Orleans to become offensive coordinator for the San Francisco 49ers in 2005.

Rizzi, who went 3-5 leading the Saints after Dennis Allen was fired, is the eighth known candidate to talk to the Jets about their coaching job. New York has also interviewed Steve Spagnuolo, Mike Locksley,

The Kansas City Chiefs' offense grew during the regular season's second half. Turnovers were eliminated, and the team was more efficient in the red zone. Patrick Mahomes's play over the season has improved since his slow start.