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There are lots of reasons teams fail over the course of an NFL regular season. Injuries play a key role in how things unfold acro s the league, but every lo s suffered by a club can't be excused away with an injury report -- as some of the better coaches usually scheme to adjust for such absences, which includes building a roster and coaching staff that can withstand the inevitable bite of the injury bug itself. Additionally, there are clubs who are faring better than most others in that regard, and yet still find themselves sliding into oblivion as the weeks roll along.In the end, the onus will always fall back onto the lap of the respective head coach, and several find themselves on the hot seat heading into Week 15, many being familiar to having a heated bottom over the last few weeks and/or months. There's been movement, however, with some seeing their chair cooled a bit, while others simply poured more gasoline on the embers beneath them. And then there's Mike Tomlin, who finds himself removed from the list altogether after mounting an 8-5 record despite now operating with a third-string quarterback, having led the Pittsburgh Steelers to wild-card contention in the proce s.Tomlin is Matt Hendricks Kids Jersey amazing, and his seat could not be more ice cold, but the same can't be said for others on this list.No one else has earned such a respite from the hot seat rankings, and using the U.S. military DEFCON readine s scale -- in honor of NFL's "Salute to Service" -- let's take a look who sits where.DEFCON 5: Safe ... for now12. Jason Garrett -Faced with a 3-3 start after dropping three straight games that included a lo s to the haple s New York Jets, . He went on to helicopter drop volumes of water onto it when he led the Cowboys to a dismantling of the , and enjoyed further cooling by climbing back from a slow start to pick apart another rival in the New York Giants, garnering two needed wins in two weeks that also happened to be against division foes. Things seemed back on track, but then came the after scraping past the , and then a mistake-laden lo s to the led to owner Jerry Jones railing against his own special teams and coaching staff.Four days later, they got molly-whopped by the at home on Thanksgiving. Still,there will be no firing of Garrett in 2019.As long as the Cowboys are atop the NFC East and in the playoff picture, Jones will not fire him, but what the team does in January will determine if Garrett lands a new contract in 2020. So, why's he on this list? It's because he deserves to be.11. Freddie Kitchens -If you want a le son in how to escape a minefield, Kitchens could probably teach you, as he lands the honor of my biggest mover and shaker on this list. The Browns were on a six-game losing streak and again the laughingstock of the entire NFL, leading to Kitchens initially being as high as DEFCON 2, considering how ma sively underwhelming his high-powered stable of talent had become in his first season as head coach in Cleveland.Now winners of four of their last five -- including over the Buffalo Bills -- it feels like the tide is beginning to turn for Kitchens and Co. That presumption will be tested in a big way over the course of their remaining few games, as they sit at 6-7 on the season and not yet eliminated from playoff contention. If Kitchens can continue to mount the forces, the Browns will go on to deliver the biggest turnaround in the NFL this season, and his job will be safer than money in a mob vault.He'll have to do it, and that will only make things more challenging but, at least for Brad Hunt Women Jersey the moment, Kitchens has his critics taking pause. The ground he stands on remains filled with land mines, though.The Patriots are involved in another controversy and there's a lot to go over. Brady Quinn and Ryan Wilson join Will Brinson to break it down, along with culture i sues in Cleveland, the 2020 draft and more. Listen below and be sure to subscribe for daily NFL goodne s.10. Matt Nagy -Nagy can exhale a bit at the moment, with the Bears ending their four-game losing streak and having now won two straight and four of their last five games. That's quite the turnaround for Nagy in Chicago, and it's why Nagy saw his seat cool noticeably over the past few weeks after continually hitching his wagon to the inconsistencies of . Well, the marriage is flourishing as of late, with Trubisky pulling Nagy out of the flames the past few weeks, putting him on much more solid ground as the regular season nears its conclusion.There's still much work to be done, and the Bears will also need help from other teams if they're going to sneak into an NFC wild-card seat -- -- but the future looks much better for Nagy than it did a month ago. Unle s the Bears collapse and lose their next three games, which is po sible considering they're up against the Packers, and then Vikings, Nagy can use his second-half turnaround to argue for another shot in 2020.Should that collapse occur, however, it'll be a much different conversation in the front office.DEFCON 4: Danger lurks9. Kliff Kingsbury -Things got fun for a little bit in Arizona, when the team went on a three-game win streak after beginning the year 0-3-1, but they're back to their losing ways and Kingsbury finds himself still fighting to figure out what type of team the Cardinals need to be to become contenders. That won't happen in 2019 though, after losing six straight -- their second-longest losing streak of 2019 -- to fall to 3-9-1 and far out of the playoff picture.That's not what the Cardinals envisioned when they wooed Kingsbury to the NFL and shipped awayto selectwith the first-overall pick, and although Kingsbury will likely be given space to make errors in 2019 -- which is why he won't find himself unemployed in the next few minutes -- a continued collapse could change his fate once the season concludes or, at minimum, one or two a sistants to help reset for 2020.It's highly unlikely Kingsbury gets canned in 2019, hence his position at No. 9 on this list, but his record this year can't be ignored.8. Adam Gase -All it took was a defeat of the also unimpre sive New York Giants to secure Gase's job, with team owner Christopher Johnson stating unequivocally there would be no changes at the head coach position in 2019. Johnson is clear that Gase will return for 2020 and, knowing that, you're now wondering why the first-year Jets head coach is still on my list. Well, it's because owners can say whatever they like on Wednesday, and do the exact opposite on Sa ... ay.showed serious regre sion prior to the Jets winning four of their last five games, but credit Darnold and Gase for weathering the hurricane to get things turned around. Still a wildly inconsistent team that has shown they can defeat a team like the Raiders, but also lose to the , and a has now found its way to Gase's locker room -- as has been the case at several points this season. It's incumbent for Gase to not only finish the year strong, but to also get a handle on his locker room, before it all pushes him right back into DEFCON 1 -- be it now or in 2020.Kudos to Gase for earning a more "safe" place on this list, but let's not pretend he's no longer in danger. He's bought himself more time with Mr. Johnson, but don't go pulling him out of the fire yet.DEFCON 3: At the ready7. Vic Fangio -Speaking of turnarounds, the Broncos are enjoying one at the moment, and Fangio could not be more relieved. Things have gone from promising before the season, to worrisome at the outset, to an absolute tailspin with only five regular season games left to play, to the Broncos and rookie rattling off two straight -- including an obliteration of the AFC South-leading in Houston. Fangio was brought in this year to replace Vance Joseph, who himself was fired after a short stint as he
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