Saints planned to interview Mike McCarthy; McCarthy didn’t garner enough interest from Saints and will take a year off

Pieces are starting to fall into place now, with Johnson going to Chicago.

I'd say McCarthy still constitutes the safe choice from the standpoint of having skins on the wall, so to speak. I'll say, however, he'd be stepping into a fairly challenging QB situation here compared to his last coupla gigs. With Brady and Glenn, you'd assume they're hungry to show they can succeed as a head coach....but with no skins on the wall yet as an actual "head man."