Hot Seat scale: Ranking 10 local coaches from most to least amount of job pressure

Like a wine paired to a certain meal, we can recommend a musical accompaniment to what you are about to read. It is the 1980s song,

Under Pressure, by Queen and David Bowie.

Pressure, pushing down on me, pressing down on you …

We identified the 10 most prominent teams in the Greater Miami/South Florida sports market (no offense, FIU hoops, Miami FC soccer and others who just missed) and then came up with a Hot Seat scale to rank which of the teams’ head coaches (or manager) are under the most pressure in terms of job security.

The scale is 0 to 10 — 0 meaning the coach’s job presently could not be safer, 10 meaning the firing line is in view and the blindfold and cigarette are being offered.

Our summer of ‘21 Hot Seat rankings:

Phil Neville, Inter Miami: Hot Seat 8.0 — David Beckham made an ill-fated coaching hire in Diego Alonso for Inter Miami’s inaugural year in Major League Soccer, then fired him after the season. Beckham then hired a former teammate and longtime friend, Phil Neville,

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AL DIAZ adiaz@miamiherald.com Olympic karate athlete Ariel Torres , seen during a training session at the Shotokan /Kenseikan Dojo in West Kendall, will compete in Tokyo on Aug. 6.

DAVID SANTIAGO dsantiago@miamiherald.com Inter Miami coach Phil Neville is a friend and former teammate of co-owner David Beckham, but has gone 2-2-7 so far in 2021.