Kafka must have impressed them; he is an up-and-coming coach, and league circles have him marked as such.
Coaching for an HC who calls plays can have outside people thinking these are his schemes when they are Dabolls and Dabolls call the plays.
We had the same argument for Payton, pointing out how his play-calling duties were stripped from him under Parcels, but he was still considered a rising coach by league circles.