The Bonehead Files

As NFL fans know, there are currently six teams looking for a new head coach. Detroit, Chicago, NY (Giants), Indianapolis, Oakland, and Arizona.

Five of these openings came from firings, because the previous head coach had underachieved in the eyes of management, and in the case of Arizona, a resignation.

As for Oakland, former head coach Jon Gruden appears to be a lock for that job. Let's not forget Gruden coached them once before, years ago, and was relatively successful. Then the genius, or utter madness, of the late Raider owner Al Davis kicked in. In an astounding move, he traded Gruden for a couple first and second round draft picks, a hefty package, to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Where Gruden promptly won a Super Bowl in his first year there, and the Raiders haven't much been any good since.

Bad move, Raider Nation. REALLY bad move.

The usual good-ole-boy coaching carousel is spinning round and round again, and who will land where remains to be seen.

Yet it seems obvious two franchises have more than earned their way into the Bonehead Files.

Those would be the Cleveland Browns and the Cincinnati Bengals. (The Lions have been long-time inductees and the Bears edge closer to the threshold of eligibility every year.)

In Cleveland, head coach Hue Jackson has been on the job for two years. His record? A jaw-dropping 1-31.

And this guy wasn't fired? SAY WHAT???

Put another way, he would have to go 10-6, a pretty decent regular season record, that is usually good enough to make the playoffs -- for a whopping EIGHT years in a row to only get back to .500.

What can they possibly be thinking in Cleveland? Or are they even capable of any rational thought?

Bonehead #2.

The Cincinnati Bengals.

Head coach Marvin Lewis has been on the job for an incredible FIFTEEN years, never got remotely close to being a Super Bowl contender, and his team remained lousy again this year.

Any sane front office and/or owner would have broomed this incompetent clown YEARS ago.

Yet what did the Bengals just do?

Signed him to a two year contract extension for millions and millions more dollars.

SAY WHAT????

Have they gone stark raving mad in Cincinnati?

It's like the Browns and Bengals WANT to lose.

That whole Russia/Trump/collusion affair being led by former FBI chief Mueller is one thing.

What the NFL and its fans need is for a special prosecutor to be appointed to investigate THESE guys.

But for now, being slam dunk inductees to the Bonehead Files will have to be sufficient.

And oh boy. They've merited the, ahem, honor in spades.

WHATZAMATTUH with these people?

Are they just......that...... dumb?