Source: Getty Images Wednesday, October 16 is National Boss Day. Whether you love your boss or hate him doesn’t matter to us. We’re here to rank the three worst bosses in games right now.
And it’s hard to believe that Bill Belichick is ineligible to be on the list this year. There’s always next year.
3. Shad Khan, Owner, Jacksonville Jaguars
Khan bought the Jaguar in 2012. Since then, they have had the worst record in the NFL at 61–140. Even the New York Jets have won 71 games since 2012. Ironically, the Cleveland Browns have also won only 71 games since 2012, the same year Jimmy Haslam purchased the team.
Funny how the Browns, Jets and Jaguars all have bosses who seem incompetent. But Khan’s Jaguars have 10 fewer wins than the next two worst teams. This is very bad.
After Gus Bradley went 14–28 as head coach of the Jaguars, Khan replaced him with Doug Marone and things began to improve for the organization. In Marone’s first season as head coach, he led the Jaguars to the AFC Championship. But Blake Bortles couldn’t beat Tom Brady’s New England Patriots.
Over his next three seasons, Maron finished last in the AFC South and did not return to the playoffs. In 2020, the Jaguars won only one game, leading to the No. 1 overall pick, who would become Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence.
Too bad Khan hired Urban Meyer to train him. What a disaster it was, a comedy of errors as a once-famous college coach involved inappropriate dancing at a college bar. Attack on your kicker, Josh Lambo,
Maybe Belichick will be eligible to join this list in 2025 If Khan chooses him as the new coach of JaguarsCertainly it will not have the opposite effect.
2. Trent Dilfer, Head Coach, UAB
Source: Getty Images Dilfer is arguably a worse coach than a quarterback. Ah, come on. That’s probably not fair to a guy who threw 129 interceptions and 113 touchdowns throughout his NFL career.
After spending 13 years in the NFL, Dilfer tried his hand at broadcasting before becoming a high school football coach. In 2022, he was hired as the head coach of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He’ll be the first to remind you, this isn’t Alabama.
After the 41-18 loss, he seriously called his children to the podium with him because “Not that it’s bothering Alabama.”
Dilfer inherited a good UAB team and turned it around in just two seasons. He’s 5-13 as a head coach, and he consistently has more questions than solutions on how to turn the program around.
It seems like it’s only a matter of time before UAB decides to go in a different direction.
1. John Fisher, owner, Oakland Athletics
Mandatory Credit: Kelly L. Cox-Imagen Images The first two bosses on this list were absolutely bad at their jobs. Not only is Fisher the owner of one of the most irrelevant entities in professional sports, but he’s also made a giant ass of himself in 2024.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you already know that A is going to Las Vegas. This is the biggest story related to the team in recent times.
The A’s won the World Series in 1989. Since then, their biggest accomplishment to date was reaching the National League Championship Series in 2006, which was Fisher’s first season with the team. since? They haven’t made it out of the Division Series.
But let’s leave their failures alone. Fisher decided to move the team out of Oakland because the city was unable to reach an agreement with him on a new stadium.
what is better? He didn’t really have a backup plan. The A’s will not play games in Las Vegas until the 2028 MLB season. Meanwhile, Oakland will play its next three seasons at Sutter Health Park in Sacramento, home of the RiverCats, the AAA affiliate of the San Francisco Giants.