Four games left. No more byes. No place left to hide for a whole lot of coaches on the hot seat.

Let’s go.

-Lions vs. Bills is gonna be BananaCakes. The Bills are not great against the run, while the Lions run the ball very well. The Lions kind of suck against the pass (especially if you stay away from safety Kerby Joseph), while the Bills’ offense is a Whack-a-Mole proposition for any defense. I don’t buy any of the bullshit Super Bowl Preview hype, because God hates us both real bad. But it’s gonna be real hard for the Sunday evening game (Packers at Seahawks) to live up to the afternoon slate.

-I find it very disturbing that we are celebrating Jerry Jones’ suffering as his lovingly-curated team continues to shit the bed in extremely public and deeply embarrassing ways. This is a human being, a person with thoughts and feelings and dreams just as valid as anyone else’s. Haven’t we, as a society, grown beyond our baser instincts like schadenfreude? Instead of celebrating, we should all be turning our energies toward coming together and solving the deeper problems.

See how stupid that sounds?

-The last quarter of the season also means a bunch of coaches trying desperately to save their jobs. Three coaches down (with none of the interim coaches likely to stick) and I’m looking at four more likely to be shitcanned in the absence of a tremendous late run:

Doug Pederson: dead man walking. He couldn’t make hay with Trevor Lawrence, and has no chance to show progress in that area.

Brian Daboll: The Maras already waited a year too long for this decision. Josh Allen and Daboll had magic in Buffalo; the evidence is now clear that Daboll was not the key part of that relationship. Yes, they are probably going to draft a quarterback high (or trade for JJ McFuckface- see below), but it’s not like Daniel Jones was an end-of-career albatross that Daboll was saddled with. If Daboll could develop a young quarterback, Daniel Jones wouldn’t be wearing purple right now.

Antonio Pierce: “Players’ Coaches” only get slack if the players actually play hard for them. The Raiders don’t want to be out there. Desmond Ridder isn’t going to save anyone. The concept that Aidan O’Connell beat out anyone on an NFL depth chart is utterly damning. Nepobaby Carter Bradley (son of Gus Bradley) is likely your QB2, which is less of a personnel move than a cry for help. Mark Davis thinks he can get Deion Sanders, which means Pierce would probably be out even if he were competent.

One of the Mikes (McCarthy or McDaniel): McCarthy is the more obvious, because he’s now an embarrassment to Jerry and keeping him makes the Jones boys look weak and indecisive. But don’t sleep on McDaniel. Dolphins owner Stephen Ross is 84, and not a patient man to begin with. Remember, the Dolphins were supposed to challenge the Bills for the AFC East this year. Tua’s injury notwithstanding, don’t be surprised if McDaniel gets the boot if they don’t make the playoffs.

-What to do with Sam Darnold? He’s been The Answer for Minnesota this year. He’s obviously comfortable in Kevin O’Connell’s offense. He is the Bird in the Hand versus JJ McCarthy’s Two in the Bush (giggity). McCarthy looked good in camp and he’s cheap for now, but the field of history is littered with the corpses of young quarterbacks who looked good in camp. Darnold is going to be expensive, but he’s also going to be 28- likely to still be in the best part of his career for the length of his next deal. There are rumblings that some of the teams who passed on a quarterback last draft (Giants, Tennessee, Raiders, New Orleans) like McCarthy more than any of the top passers in this year’s class. That leads to an unlikely but possible situation where the Vikings recover a higher draft pick than the one they used to pick McCarthy. Fun developing story.