Someone in an NFL coach's office just said what everyone's been thinking, and they said it loud.

An anonymous current head coach sent a text message to Pro Football Talk that pulls exactly zero punches: "At this very moment, [this is] the worst collective of 32 owners in league history."

Read that again. The worst. In league history.

And you know what? Looking at the carnage of this offseason, it's hard to argue with him.

Ten teams - nearly one-third of the entire NFL - made coaching changes this year. Ten. Eight head coaching positions remained vacant as of Monday after the Buffalo Bills shocked the football world by firing Sean McDermott, a coach who's taken them to the playoffs six times in eight seasons.

Let that sink in for a second. The Bills just canned a coach with a .624 winning percentage. A guy who turned a laughingstock franchise into perennial contenders. And they showed him the door because - what? - they couldn't get over the hump and win a Super Bowl with one of the league's best quarterbacks?

This is the insanity the anonymous coach is talking about. This is the dysfunction eating the league from the inside out.

Here's the thing nobody wants to say out loud but everyone knows: there are no competence requirements to own an NFL team. You don't have to know football. You don't have to understand organizational management. You don't have to demonstrate any qualifications whatsoever.

You just need money. Either enough cash to buy your way in, or the good fortune to inherit a team from a family member who had enough cash. That's it. That's the barrier to entry for running a multi-billion dollar sports franchise that employs hundreds of people and shapes the lives and careers of players, coaches, and staff.

And what happens when unqualified owners make football decisions? Chaos. Impatience. Panic firings. The exact kind of dysfunction we're seeing right now.

According to Mike Florio's analysis, the core problem is ownership impatience, not systematic coaching failures. Owners frequently dump coaches within three years of hiring their predecessor, creating a vicious cycle where coaches operate under constant job insecurity and can't implement long-term strategies.

Think about that business model for a second. You hire someone, give them a massive project to fix, then fire them before they can actually complete the work. Then you hire someone else, tell them to fix the mess the last guy left, and fire them before they finish. Rinse and repeat.

That's not a recipe for success. That's a recipe for perpetual mediocrity.

But here's the really maddening part: it doesn't even matter to the bottom line. Every NFL franchise prints money regardless of how they perform on the field. The revenue sharing model, the television contracts, the merchandise deals - it all flows whether you're the Kansas City Chiefs winning Super Bowls or the New York Jets doing... whatever it is the Jets do.

So what's an owner's incentive to be patient? To build something sustainable? To trust a process?

There isn't one. The financial rewards come either way. But the pressure comes from fans who are angry, who want change, who demand that someone - anyone - be held accountable when things go wrong.

And since owners sure as hell aren't going to fire themselves, they fire the coach. It's the easiest, most visible action they can take. It looks like leadership even when it's just panic dressed up in a press conference.

Look at the franchises that actually work in this league. The teams with competent, patient ownership. The Pittsburgh Steelers have had three head coaches since 1969. Three. The New England Patriots rode with Bill Belichick for two decades and won six championships. The Chiefs hired Andy Reid in 2013 and have been to four Super Bowls with him.

Stability breeds success. Trust breeds stability. Competent ownership breeds trust.

The teams that are perpetually struggling? The ones cycling through coaches every few years? They're struggling because of the coaching carousel, not in spite of it.

And now we have a sitting head coach - someone who's living this nightmare, who's watching colleagues get fired left and right, who knows his job could be next no matter how well he performs - calling out the owners publicly.

Anonymously, sure. Because actually putting his name on it would be career suicide in a league where owners have all the power and coaches are disposable.

But someone said it. Someone finally said it.

The emperor has no clothes. The people running this league - the ones at the very top, the ones with all the power and all the money - they're failing. They're impatient. They're reactive. They're more interested in optics than actual organizational excellence.

And according to one of their own employees, they represent the worst collective of ownership in NFL history.

That's what sports is all about, folks - except when it's about everything but sports. When it's about egos and money and power plays and organizational dysfunction that has nothing to do with what happens on the field.

Ten coaching changes. Eight vacancies. Countless lives disrupted. Countless careers derailed.

And the coaches aren't the problem.

The coach who sent that text message knows it. The rest of us should start admitting it too.