Polymarkets has Mike McCarthy as odds on favorite to be Saints next head coach

Mr. Sparkle said

At the risk of being creating another kerfuffle about Aaron Glenn being their “top choice”, if you believe that he was their top choice (as I do) and then now they are pivoting to MM, then that makes 3 straight candidates (DA, Glenn, MM) that have a pre-existing relationship with Loomis and the Saints.

Which is not automatically a bad thing or a good thing, it’s just how (I think) they operate these days.

nothing wrong with hiring someone you know (happens every day in the real world) as long as it’s the right guy.

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He probably was their top choice, but he was also the top choice of the Jets and possibly other teams. Consensus seems to be that he was the #2 candidate behind Johnson of the young unknown coaches. So, I don't think having him as the top choice, when Johnson turned them down, was mostly about familiarity. It's just that he was the best options left, and the Jets agreed, after Johnson. Did his familiarity have something to do with it? I'm sure it did, but that's pretty standard in the NFL and in the rest of the world. But, I will say that Glenn, compared to McCarthy, would not have been a safe choice. It's pretty risky to go with a guy that is an unknown as a HC that goes against the trend of hiring young OCs to be HC for all the reasons we have discussed here.