Falcons TE coach Kevin Koger declines to interview for Saints OC position

No conspiracies about the Saints being a bad situation is needed on this one.

One of the risks we took in waiting 3 weeks longer to hire a coach and get busy building a staff is that some people may have already made commitments for the season already and don't want to be known in coaching circles as a person who would jump to another team after making those commitments and beginning work on a new season. I don't know if that is why he declined, but it would make sense to me.

On top of that, the rumor mill has been pretty consistent that Nussmeier is the leading candidate for the job. So while there may be some small interest in him for OC, it does appear to be fulfilling league requirements than a real opportunity to get the job. Add in that it would be with a hated division rival and I cannot blame him for declining to interview for a job he was unlikely to get.