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I am seeing reports of: President of Football Omar Khan GM/VP of Football Ryan Poles HC Quinn

FWIW, that is pretty cool to see. Looks like Poles is in the pole position. I think it is down to him, Brown, and Khan.

I heard that there is a potential that the Bears could hire Eberflus as the HC and Caldwell as the OC and Asst HC. What are your thoughts on that?

Biggs believes they will go GM first. Hopefully that's the case. I will feel much better. Ossenfort is a sleeper. Titans have built a very solid team.

Here we go, 3 finalists?

I hope they narrow it down, reinterview finalists and pick one within the next week. There is not much more you need to do. Pick the best guy and let him pick his staff and new HC. Give them the reviews from the first interviews and let them make the pick. In my last job, when I sat in on interviews as part of the hiring panel, we actually had a grading system and one of the metrics was my personal assessment which was weighted 33% of the overall grade of that person. Once the grades from all panelists were averaged, they rank-ordered the candidates and did a final alibi call to see if anyone had an objections with the final order. If not, they sent out the offer to the #1 candidate, if they accepted, done. If they didn't, they sent out an offer to #2 (like they were the #1 candidate lol). Rinse and repeat down the list. Everyone hired was always the #1 candidate.

Yeah, definitely need GM first. I was hoping they would've had one locked in before Daboll became available. Hopefully, they can get that settled this week. Two more teams will be out and have potential HC candidates available to hire. Daboll will be available in 2-3 years if he takes the Giants job. Daniel Jones and a hobbled Barkley? He is good, but not a miracle worker. That roster is crap and they have no cap space. It would take 3-4 years to turn that ship around. Are they willing to reset at QB again?

Fields is just a little smaller than Allen, but faster. Very similar traits. Fields is more accomplished while Allen needed some additional grooming coming from a smaller school. If I am Daboll, why would I choose the Giants? Daniel Jones? A hobbled Barkley? An unmotivated Golladay? They are over the cap, have 70M invested in Bradberry, Golladay, and Williams with very little wiggle room and the roster is a mess. The Bears have a ton of cap space compared to the Giants, and oh by the way have Fields, Montgomery, Kmet, Mooney, Herbert, and potentially Cohen as skill position players. For an offensive HC, the Bears have better pieces to build on. The only way Daboll takes the Giants job is if the Bears didn't offer him a job, which will be pretty disheartening.

His offense just put up 47 against NE (with the best QB performance in playoff history) and 36 on KC in back-to-back weeks. Absolutely bonkers. If not for the stupid OT rule, the Bills win this game. To end the regular season after that snowmaggedeon game, the Bills offense scored 27, 31, 33, 29, and 27 going 4-1 in the process. If you include the postseason, that is 7 straight games with 27 or more points. The Bears hit 27 in 3 times the entire year.

Injury scares me, a congenital condition that has already kept him out and it is related to the spine? Very scary. I don't know if this team has the luxury to take a flyer on someone like that. Maybe with the extra 6th if he is still there? I agree that the early 2nd rounder sets up better for a DB right now.

The MVP Rodgers offense scored 10 pts and only 3 after their first drive. He only had 225 passing yards and 75 came on blown coverage wheel route to Jones. So besides that play, he had 150 passing yards in a home playoff game coming off a bye with arguably the best WR in the game. This might be the biggest indictment on him, of his 29 pass attempts, 21 went to Adams and Jones. Only 2 other players caught a single pass, Lazard and Lewis (and Lewis fumbled). I thought LaFleur was an offensive genius just like Shanahan. Their offenses scored a combined 16 pts, lol. Jimmy G won a playoff game going 11-19, 131 yds, 0 TD, 1 INT a week after going 16-25, 172 yds, 0 TD, 1 INT. So Jimmy G is 2-0 in the playoffs with these totals: 27-46, 58.6%, 303 yds, 0 TD, 2 INT. That feels so much like Trent Dilfer on the 2000 Ravens. Here were his numbers after 2 playoff games: 14-30, 46.6%, 247 yds, 1 TD, 0 INT

That was an awesome ending. Legend, "Damn that feels good, F#*k the Packers!"

Some good nuggets.

Exactly, I think with every candidate that hasn't been a GM previously, you are obviously projecting. Just like with all hirings, you are looking for traits that go along with the experience. Those are some of the questions that they would need to be asking. What was your involvement in draft selections, roster creation, cap management, etc.

I love this, Gould "Man that feels good, F#&k the Packers!"

Nagy was never a good play caller and should not have came in with the mindset that he would be a HC and call plays. That was his mistake. If he came in as just the HC, and hired a competent OC and play caller, things may have been much different. Nagy only called 5 games in KC and a bad half in the playoffs. That should've been a red flag.

I would definitely prefer Smith, but it is hard to argue with KC's success since 2013. No worse than 9-7 in 2014 and 8 seasons with double-digit wins, including 5 with 12 or more, and 8 playoffs in 9 years. We just don't know how much influence he has had on draft selection and roster construction.

Poles getting 2nd interview. Right now I believe Eberflus and Poles are the only two with a second interview.

If he was involved in influencing draft picks as a scout since 2009, there are some pretty big hits in there. Eric Berry, Justin Houston, Rodney Hudson, Dontari Poe, Eric Fisher, Travis Kelce, Marcus Peters, Tyreek Hill, Chris Jones, and Patrick Mahomes.

First, a little unprofessional to mimic a blind person. Could easily have come up with a different analogy. Now on the topic. This is a stretch in my opinion. The search agency said it was a shit show because they had too many candidates and should have it narrowed down to 5 or so. Sure, but most of these are Zoom calls, which are easy. A wide net is good, you never know when you might need the information down the line. Also, I don't think they knew what they were going to do with Pace until after the season, so they haven't narrowed anything down yet. There will be only a few once there are finalists or second interviews. No big deal to interview HCs to see if there are any superstars and when the GM is hired, give them the list of available candidates from the initial interviews. The only thing I have an issue with is if they hire a HC first, unless it is Harbaugh.

Ryan Poles is interesting. I didn't know he was a UDFA for the Bears in 2008. Seems like he got hurt or just stopped playing football after that. He joined the Chiefs as a scout in 2009 and worked his way up to Director of College Scouting in 2017. In a way, if I had to pick between a college scout and a pro scout, I would rather have a guy with college scout experience as those are harder to project. The NFL guys are much easier in my opinion. Poles was in KC the same year Daboll was OC there. So there is a connection there. Maybe a Poles-Daboll duo?

I hope Daboll doesnt follow.

Updated List, so far 10 interviewed with 1 more scheduled and 4 TBA. Even with the Dodds withdrawal, we are still looking at 14 candidates. Role GM Candidate Name Team Interview Date Director of College Scouting Morocco Brown Indianapolis Colts Monday 1/24 VP of Football Operations Kwesi Adofo-Mensah Cleveland Browns Thursday 1/13 VP of Player Personnel Glenn Cook Cleveland Browns Wednesday 1/12 Assistant General Manager Ed Dodds Indianapolis Colts Monday 1/17 Assistant General Manager Jeff Ireland New Orleans Saints Friday 1/14 Director of Player Personnel Ran Carthon San Francisco 49ers Wednesday 1/19 Former General Manager Rick Smith Ex-Houston Texans TBA Assistant General Manager Joe Schoen Buffalo Bills Sunday 1/16 VP of Football /Business Admin Omar Khan Pittsburgh Steelers TBA Director of Scouting Elliot Wolf New England Patriots Tuesday 1/18 Asst Director Of Player Personnel Champ Kelly Chicago Bears Thursday 1/13 Director of Player Personnel JoJo Wooden Los Angeles Chargers Thursday 1/20 Director of Player Personnel Monti Ossenfort Tennessee Titans Saturday 1/15 Senior Personnel Executive Reggie McKenzie Miami Dolphins TBA Executive Dir of Player Personnel Ryan Poles Kansas City Chiefs TBA

Updated list: Role HC Candidate Name Team Interview Date DC Leslie Frazier Buffalo Bills Friday 1/21 HC Doug Pederson Ex-Philadelphia Eagles Wednesday 1/12 OC Brian Daboll Buffalo Bills Sunday 1/16 OC Nathaniel Hackett Green Bay Packers Saturday 1/15 DC Todd Bowles Tampa Bay Buccaneers Saturday 1/22 OC Byron Leftwich Tampa Bay Buccaneers Thursday or Friday DC Matt Eberflus Indianapolis Colts Monday 1/17 DC Dan Quinn Dallas Cowboys Saturday 1/22 HC Brian Flores Miami Dolphins Friday 1/14 HC Jim Caldwell Ex-Detroit Lions Saturday 1/15 Eberflus getting 2nd interview on Monday the 24th, which is also the same day they interview Morroco Brown for GM. Both are from the Colts. Coaching list also doesn't include college interviews as those do not need to be disclosed.