Kellen Moore most likely to be Saints coach; Moore has begun working on assembling staff; Schefter: “Moore is gonna be Saints coach barring a setback”

StudioSaint said

Even if that were accurate, which it most likely isn't, there's still the fact that as of this moment, Kafka, Rizzi and Weaver have not withdrawn their names.

I don't buy for a second that the league would penalize a team for reporters saying sources indicate that Moore will be the hire. In the past, reporters have bragged about their inside sources telling them that Coach X will be the new coach. There is no evidence the league would penalize a team for anything other than a formal press announcement from the team.

There have been definitive reports in the past about how a coach would be announced as the new head coach once the coach was out of the playoffs. I don't recall any team ever being penalized for any of those reports. I searched for the specific policy about announcing hires and didn't find anything on it.

Moore may very well have been told he has the job. I'm not saying that's not the case. I'm simply saying that people are saying what is publicly known proves things they don't actually prove, if you consider everything that is publicly known.

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Moore can’t officially sign with the Saints until after the Super Bowl. His team is still playing. This is no difference than last year when they waited on Klint. Most people speculated he was hire but it couldn’t be said definite he was the hire because his team was still playing. This is same as Ben Johnson is the favorite for the Bears job for weeks. His first stop after the loss was the Bears he was signed. The NFL doesn’t like things to out shine the Super Bowl. I know this is the first time the Saints hired a head coach of a Super Bowl team, but this is the common practice. It is to announce it but not really announce it. Yes Moore isn’t under contract. He could pull a Josh McDaniel with the Colts and back out the last minute. If it was one of the other coaches the Saints could have hired them already. That’s why Mike backed out because they weren’t serious in talking to him and he felt it was Moore. He happened a couple years ago with the Eagles. The Eagles lost both coordinators. It was highly suggested that Shane Steichen was going to the Colts and John Gannon was going to the Cardinals. I watched the Cardinals closer because Peyton interviewed there and I wanted the early fist round pick. Once he chose Denver it was down to Gannon and Lou Anarumo. Anarumo never pulled his name.