The 2018-19 NFL season has officially ended, and in the words of six-time Super Bowl winning head coach Bill Belichick, we're onto the 2019-20 season. One day after the and officially hired Zac Taylor and Brian Flores, respectively, as their new coaches after waiting nearly a month for the Rams and Patriots' seasons to end, which means hiring season is over and grading season is here. Now that the eight coaching opening have all been filled, we decided now would be a good time to grade the eight hirings. It's a dangerous game to play in large part because so many of these coaches are first-timers, which makes it extremely difficult to predict how they'll fare in their first head coaching ventures. For instance, a year ago, and. And if you don't how it turned out, well, just know the Cardinals will make an appearance on this list once again. Before we get to the grades, it's worth noting that just because a team received a high grade doesn't mean we're predicting that team will go on to win a ton of games in 2019. There's more to winning than just coaching. It also comes down to personnel. For instance, we gave the a very high grade for their decision to hire Oakland Athletics Custom Jersey Vic Fangio, but unle s the Broncos find a better quarterback than for the upcoming season (unlikely) or get themselves out of the AFC West (extremely unlikely), they're probably not going to make the playoffs. And if that happens, it doesn't mean the Broncos erred in hiring Fangio. It means they've got a bigger problem than their coach, who can't fix everything on his own. Below, you'll find a grade for all eight head coach hirings made over the past month or so. It's a dangerous game to play, but we're going to do it anyway. Zac Taylor to the Bengals: B- It's easy to understand what the Bengals were going for when before the Rams' postseason run even began and Sean McVay ended up being one of the best hirings ever, but at the time, it seemed like a reach to be Maybe Taylor, 35, follows in McVay's footsteps and leads the Bengals to glory, but it's more likely that Taylor ends up being a reach and that McVay ends up being a one-of-a-kind hiring.Taylor isn't just young. He's also incredibly inexperienced. He served as the Rams' quarterbacks coach this past season and the a sistant wide receivers coach the season prior. He's only been an offensive coordinator once, and that came back in Walt Weiss Jersey 2015 when he took over for in Miami on an interim basis. In fairne s to Taylor, he did spend a full season as the offensive coordinator at the University of Cincinnati, but he did not fare well in that endeavor. The Bearcats averaged 19.3 points per game under Taylor's command. As the Dolphins' quarterbacks coach, Taylor also helped develop Ryan Tannehill, but given the trajectory of Tannehill's career (), that's probably not something to tout. The Bengals' job won't be an easy one. He's inheriting an average 31-year-old quarterback in and a defense coming off a horrific season. Even if the Bengals are bad in 2019, that won't mean Taylor is a failure. There's plenty of problems that need fixing in Cincinnati. He deserves time to fix them. But it's impo sible to give the Taylor hiring a top grade given his limited experience and succe s. To be frank, he only got hired because he worked under McVay. The Bengals are hoping he's a McVay clone. For what it's worth, don't Dennis Eckersley Jersey knock the hiring just because struggled in the . A year ago, the collapsed in a playoff game, but the hired Matt Nagy anyway. He just One game shouldn't be the reason why the Taylor hiring is met with skepticism. His entire resume should be the reason. That said, give the Bengals credit for getting one thing 100 percent right: They didn't hire Hue Jackson, a decision that elevates their grade from a C to a B-. Brian Flores to the Dolphins: B Similarly, we shouldn't crown the Dolphins for just because the Patriots' defense is coming off As the defensive play-caller, Flores deserves loads of credit for the Patriots' defensive effort against the Rams, but one game alone shouldn't be the reason why we praise or criticize a hiring. There's plenty to like and dislike about the hiring, which is why the Dolphins get a B. Let's start with the positives. Flores has been with the Patriots as an a sistant coach for the past 11 seasons, which means he's worked closely with Belichick for a while now. He's won three Super Bowls as an a sistant coach. In his first season as the Patriots' defensive play-caller, he coached a group that allowed the seventh-fewest points in the regular season before embarking upon an impre sive playoff run against a gauntlet of devastating offenses: the , Chiefs, and Rams. The only problem is, it's difficult to know how much credit Flores deserves when he's coaching a Belichick defense. The Belichick coaching tree hasn't really led to succe sful head coaches. Always smart to pick the fruit of the Belichick coaching tree. By my count 8 former Belichick a sistants have become head coaches. Their records:O'Brien 42-38Groh 9-7Saban 15-17McDaniels 11-17Mangini 33-47Schwartz 29-51Patricia 6-10Crennel 28-55 Michael David Smith (@MichaelDavSmith) The Dolphins get a slightly higher grade than the Bengals because their coach has had more succe s calling plays, but that doesn't make the hiring a Oakland Athletics Jersey home run. It's OK to be skeptical of Flores' future without Belichick. Most of Belichick's disciples haven't done well, serving as the most-recent example. One thing is clear: Flores deserves time until we judge him as a coach. The Dolphins are not ready to win in 2019. Flores is going to be overseeing what should be a complete and total rebuild. Don't call him a bad coach if the Dolphins stink in 2019. It's a proce s. Kliff Kingsbury to the Cardinals: B Similar to the Taylor hiring, -- desperation to find the next Sean McVay when odds are, there's only one Sean McVay. i legit loled when i read this in the Cardinals announcement Sean Wagner-McGough (@seanjwagner) I'll say this, though: I completely understand why the Cardinals hired Kingsbury. Their thinking makes sense. They just traded up to draft Andrew Triggs Jersey and then watched Rosen fail to overcome a bad offense in his rookie season, during which he completed 55.2 percent of his pa ses, averaged 5.8 yards per attempt, threw 11 touchdowns and 14 picks, and posted a 66.7 pa ser rating. Kingsbury has his shortcomings, which we'll get to in a moment, but he has had succe s coaching quarterbacks at the college level, most notably with . And his offenses at Texas Tech scored at least 35 points per game in four of his six seasons in charge. Getting Rosen an offensive-minded coach was a no-brainer. But Kingsbury's background isn't all good. He went 35-40 at Texas Tech. Put another way, he couldn't win consistently with Patrick freakin' Mahomes. He's never coached in the NFL. There's more to being an NFL coach than developing a highly drafted quarterback.