The point is that other than the Bears, they all fired their coaches after the season and we had a 2 month head start on getting prepared for the process and are dead last. I don't get it.
The NFL slowed down the process and that outside of interviewing coaches without jobs, we couldn't even do a remote interview with any candidates that were in the playoffs until like last week. And McCarty only became available late last week. And there are still 3 coordinators that we are looking at that are in the playoffs.
So, having a head start is only really helpful in doing the background work on these guys which I'm sure they did. But, they still have to go through the interview process and that was delayed because New Orleans was shut down for 3 or 4 days by a snow storm.
And yet, only one guy that they were seriously considering is gone and we still have 2 or 3 guys that are in the Conference Championship games as coordinators left to interview. I don't see how this is a bad position to be in.
Maybe they picked the wrong guys to go after, but the speed of the process has not cost them anything other than an in person with Glenn after which he would have taken the Jets job anyway.