Good question, but I’d assume that unless a report comes out that says an interviewee declined a request, it means they intend to take the interview.
As I have been preaching all along, these jobs are all rare, very high paying, and highly coveted. These guys are not missing interviews unless there is some personal factor involved where they strongly don’t want to be involved with a certain organization, and that would be news anytime it happens.
Another thing to keep in mind is that even though these are presented as “Interview requests,” most of them are not on the up and up. Talks between teams and agents many times occur prior to the formal requests. In other words, a guy like a Vrabel doesn’t exactly learn that the Saints want to interview him via hearing from his team that they requested to interview him.
It may be why we haven’t heard of the Saints being linked to Ben Johnson at all. The informal talk has probably already occurred and we on his oddly picky list.