Black Monday, the day when N.F.L. head coaches are often shown the door, wasn’t as dark this year. But that was only because so many coaches had already been fired.
Doug Marrone of the Jaguars was the first to learn his fate on Monday morning, with the news confirmed in a statement from the Jacksonville owner Shad Khan, who is also in the market for a new general manager.
“I’m not sure there is another person in this league more respected as a human being than Anthony,” the Chargers owner Dean Spanos said in a statement, before acknowledging in the next sentence that N.