Mr. Scot

Joe Person had a pretty detailed article where he talked to several of the people involved. Darlington was the guy who scouted Newton and became his biggest advocate when some others doubted him.

From the stories I've read behind the scenes, the guy that was most instrumental in the Panthers deciding to draft Cam Newton was Khary Darlington... ...also known as the guy who took a settlement package and signed a non-disclosure agreement after Jerry Richardson used a racial slur on him.

I'd be a lot more concerned about the universe collapsing on itself than the Huddle crashing.

That's great...unless the old band sucked.

The fact they had gone this long and interviewed five other people without getting to him made me think he probably wasn't getting the job. Guess it's happening after all.

The people he had the good interview with aren't in charge of the coaching hire anymore.

Good way to judge how your interview is going if you're brave enough... Tell a joke and everybody laughs? You're good. Tell a joke and nobody laughs? You should probably just pack your stuff up and go. I would add that I agree with you about generic interview questions. Makes me think the person doing the interview has no idea what they're doing. And how are you going to judge whether I have a specific job skill by asking about a time I overcame a conflict?

Possible. The Jaguars just let go of a former Seahawks co-worker in John Idzik. He could be a front office option as well. Idzik's been a general manager before, though from what I've read it sounds like he's better at the cap management side of things than the personnel part (and we've got people for that).

Younger me probably would have done that. Older me appreciates the value of keeping your mouth shut

I wouldn't say "nobody"...

You know I'd forgotten, but Julius Peppers works for the team too. He's not in personnel from what I remember, though.

I think their pursuit of Fitterer kinda mirrors when they went after Rhule. (just a little bit longer and no meatballs involved)

Worth noting that the story of them "resetting" the search after this weekend confirms what we heard before about them not being able to settle on the first group of candidates. Makes me wonder if they were zeroing in on Fitterer after they talked to him and the other second wave interviews were "just in case".

I've been in a position where I could afford to be choosy and I've been in positions where I couldn't.

They're just quoting Rapoport.

I don't know if it's so much the type of job as it is the person interviewing. I've definitely sat in interviews where I felt like if I so much as cracked a smile, the interviewer would give me poor marks. And yeah, I call this trash talking. Trash talking isn't necessarily an adversarial thing.

This was something like his third or fourth GM interview. He reportedly came in second to Joe Douglas for the Jets job. You could definitely say he had reason to be confident.

And hey, want a crazy scenario? Try this one. Bieniemy is interviewing with the Eagles as well. He gets that job and the Eagles call the Texans offering to swap Carson Wentz for Deshaun Watson. That's not gonna happen, but hey...

Invokes his no trade clause. Forcing them to trade him wouldn't be easy, but if they do agree to trade him he does have some power to influence where he goes.

You'll notice in the article that Fitterer was questioning Rhule about developing young players.

Someone else said it's possible that even if he completely bombs his interview, the Texans might hire him anyway just to try and put out the fires. Breer also raised a good point. If they interview Bieniemy and then don't hire him, that could piss Watson off even further because he could see it as just a lame attempt at placating him. It's very possible that the job is his if he wants it.

Probably depends on what Caserio thinks of him. He's had a chance to view Jimmy Garoppolo on the team and Sam Darnold as a division rival. He has informed opinions on both.

In other developments on this front, Eric Bieniemy has accepted the Texans interview request, and is in fact interviewing today. The league decided to give permission for teams to go ahead and do virtual interviews with candidates from the four remaining teams this week rather than making them wait.

Figured you were tired of saying it.

Bill O'Brien doesn't work there anymore.