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

Take it for what it’s worth but I had a conversation with someone earlier that word is McCarthy is thinking about sitting out the hiring process this year. Bad look for the Saints might be getting worse.
I don't know what to think anymore. I'm all for being thorough, speaking to all viable candidates, dotting I's and crossing T's.

But here we are...we had an 8 week head start on everyone but the Jets. And somehow everyone else performed their due diligence, got the guy they wanted (or at least say they did), and we STILL don't know who we favor, let alone who we want? And now we have supposed favorites withdrawing from consideration? Is ML really that much smarter than the rest of the room? Or is he one of the reasons it's taking longer than every other team to fill a HC vacancy?

Something smells funny to me, but I don't know what it is...