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In a vacuum, I'll be fine if it's Canales. But if we make this hire in the next few days without giving a second interview to Johnson, Slowik, or Macdonald I'll be a bit frustrated. That would just reek of hiring someone to hire someone, sort of like last year. I still wonder how much of the Canales news is actual insider information or the media just making the connection to Morgan and running with it.

I see the vision but Tbf if we’re not bringing Ben back in it’s because we know he’s going to Washington so we could easily call their bluff there

Such a hard on they didn’t even do a 30 minute zoom with him

Falcons have requested a second interview with him

https://x.com/rapsheet/status/1749527162439246061?s=46&t=xpgkpbdmCQHLrpIYBMrHOw Seems totally feasible after the initial interview Macdonald could have politely told us no.

There were reports last night of teams requesting second interviews with Macdonald

It definitely feels like that’s most likely right now. The Morgan ties, and he seems like the type that would definitely take/embrace this job

Either we have a really good idea who we’re going to hire at this point or we’re being turned down for second interviews by some of our candidates. Unfortunately, I have a guess as to which one is more likely to be true here. I feel like Quinn, Slowik, and Macdonald are telling us no.

I’ve tried to hold out as much hope as I can but it would be very difficult to argue this if things get to that point

So Quinn and Slowik received initial interviews with us, are reportedly being called in for round two for teams but not with us yet. Will be interesting to see if that changes. If it doesn’t, it makes me think we’re really narrowing our focus on 1-2 names.

It is absolutely insane that this isn’t common sense. We’ve been so obsessed with fixing this position that the rest of the roster has been absolutely depleted. Then everyone we move on from immediately goes somewhere else and begins playing better. And we still can’t figure out what the common denominator is.

One thing I gathered from Person's article is that outside of the obvious fact that we want Johnson, no one has a clue where we stand beyond that.

If Tepper looks himself in the mirror and realizes he should have given Wilks a fair shot, it does seem like going with a guy like Raheem could go a long ways to restoring trust in the locker room. I think he can get us back to our roots and give us someone to rally around. Assuming we strike out on Johnson I'd be more than fine with Raheem.

Obviously we know we hope Ben Johnson comes in for another interview. That would be Johnson, Canales, Morris, and Evero getting second interviews. Maybe Slowik and one/both of the Ravens coordinators? Started with 11 maybe our list is cut down to 6-7

I think I agree. The league is clearly very high on him but I’m not sure he’s what we need right now

Apparently Quinn has scheduled interviews with Tennessee, Seattle, and Washington this week but nothing about him coming in for one with us. We’ll see if that changes

16 of the last 23 Super Bowl winners were coached by a retread coach. We desperately need a culture builder, and Raheem is known to be the ultimate architect. He wasn’t even bad with the Bucs and the Falcons immediately got better when he became their interim. Name one player on the Rams defense that’s not Aaron Donald

Tbf doesn’t sound like Slowik has scheduled a second with anyone yet

Once we have interviewed Raheem and Canales we should be Rooney Rule compliant

Raheem getting a second interview per Schefter

Tennessee interviewing Brown in person and are now compliant with the RR. Me thinks they have their guy and want to move quick

It was a virtual interview. Johnson now can’t accept any more interviews until after next week.

Totally agree. We definitely seemed overeager to make a hire last year. We need to be patient this time

Basically, it seems like the Titans could be positioning themselves to make a hire this week. And we could lose out on Callahan while waiting for others. But honestly I’m fine with that. I’m not even sure he’s one of my five favorite candidates right now (Johnson, Slowik, Canales, Morris, Macdonald)

Interestingly enough, it was just announced they interviewed Shaw tonight in person. That’s at least 1 RR interview right there. I simply have a hard time believing David Shaw is in serious contention for an NFL HC job right now. Titans could be eager to make a hire this week and maybe it’s Callahan. Puts us in a precarious spot since I assume we’re waiting out on Johnson.