Washington Redskins head coach Jay Gruden is on the clock.
With Joe Barry's dismissal Jan. 5, Gruden has now fired his second defensive coordinator in three years, and the head coach will be the next fall guy if the Redskins fail to make the playoffs in 2017. While Gruden is the third straight Washington coach to reach his fourth season with an owner that once flipped them every two years, no one has reached five.
Barry was the fall guy for an 8-7-1 season. It doesn't matter it was only one-half game worse than last year when the Redskins won the NFC East. It also doesn't matter that the team spent 64 percent of its salary cap and last two first-rounders on the offense, while the defense featured cornerback Josh Norman and a lot of other guys. Those are secondary reasons why Barry failed to last three years in Washington.
