The NFL offseason is now a week old, but as dawn broke Sunday morning, exactly zero teams had hired a head coach or general manager. We don’t expect that to be the case next Sunday. Rather, the first hires could come at any moment. We discuss that and much more as we explore the latest NFL news and rumors.
NFL News and Rumors Today
This is your moment, Brian Daboll and Leslie Frazier. The Bills’ offensive and defensive coordinators, respectively, plan to sit for interviews Sunday — just hours after the Bills trounced the Patriots in the Wild Card round of the NFL playoffs.
Chicago Bears
Fired: Matt Nagy (HC), Ryan Pace (GM)
Scheduled/requested HC interviews:
- Todd Bowles
Buccaneers defensive coordinator - Jim Caldwell
Former Colts, Lions head coach
Saturday, January 15 - Brian Daboll
Bills offensive coordinator
Sunday, January 16 - Matt Eberflus
Colts defensive coordinator
Monday, January 17 - Brian Flores
Former Dolphins head coach
Friday, January 14 - Leslie Frazier
Bills defensive coordinator
This week - Nathaniel Hackett
Packers offensive coordinator
Saturday, January 15 - Byron Leftwich
Buccaneers offensive coordinator - Doug Pederson
Former Eagles head coach
Wednesday, January 12 - Dan Quinn
Cowboys defensive coordinator
Scheduled/requested GM interviews:
- Kwesi Adofo-Mensah
Browns vice president of football operations - Morocco Brown
Colts director of college scouting - Ran Carthon
49ers director of player personnel - Glenn Cook
Browns vice president of player personnel - Ed Dodds
Colts assistant general manager - Jeff Ireland
Saints assistant general manager
Friday, January 14 - Champ Kelly
Bears assistant director of player personnel
Thursday, January 13 - Omar Khan
Steelers vice president of football and business administration - Reggie McKenzie
Dolphins senior personnel executive - Monti Ossenfort
Titans director of player personnel
Saturday, January 15 - Joe Schoen
Bills assistant general manager - Eliot Wolf
Patriots director of scoutingÂ
The latest: Chicago is now up to as many as 11 candidates to replace Ryan Pace as general manager after the McCaskeys on Saturday met with Ossenfort, who has now been considered for all three GM openings around the league. Up next: Zoom meetings with the Bills’ two coordinators, whose stock has probably never been higher after Saturday night’s thrashing of the Patriots.
Denver Broncos
Fired: Vic Fangio (HC)
Scheduled/requested interviews:
- Eric BieniemyÂ
Chiefs offensive coordinator - Brian Callahan
Bengals offensive coordinator - Jonathan Gannon
Eagles defensive coordinator - Luke Getsy
Packers QB coach/passing game coordinator
Friday, January 14 - Aaron Glenn
Lions defensive coordinator
Thursday, January 13 - Nathaniel HackettÂ
Packers offensive coordinator
Thursday, January 13 - Jerod Mayo
Patriots LB coach - Kellen Moore
Cowboys offensive coordinator - Kevin O’Connell
Rams offensive coordinator - Dan Quinn
Cowboys defensive coordinator
The latest: The Broncos on Saturday posted to Twitter a video clip of GM George Paton deboarding a private jet after a week’s worth of head coaching interviews. Will Paton’s in-person approach convince his preferred candidate to sign on? Most believe Quinn is his top target, but Dallas’ defensive coordinator has a bunch of options.
Houston Texans
Fired: David Culley (and offensive coordinator Tim Kelly)
Scheduled/requested interviews:
- Brian Flores
Former Dolphins head coach
Friday, January 14 - Joe Lombardi
Chargers offensive coordinator
Saturday, January 15 - Hines Ward
Florida Atlantic special assistant to the head coach
Saturday, January 15
The latest: Texans general manager Nick Caserio told reporters Friday not to make any assumptions about Houston’s coaching search, and that they are “going to be very deliberate with this process. The most important thing is just finding the best fit for this organization.” Meeting with Ward, who is currently an assistant at Florida Atlantic and has just three years of coaching experience, certainly suggests the Texans are casting a wide net. We still think Flores and Jerod Mayo are the likeliest to land the job.
Jacksonville Jaguars
Fired: Urban Meyer (HC)
Scheduled/requested interviews:
- Darrell Bevell
Jaguars interim head coach
Tuesday, January 11 - Todd Bowles
Buccaneers defensive coordinator
Friday, January 3 (Jan. 7 has also been reported) - Jim Caldwell
Former Colts and Lions head coach
Tuesday, January 4 - Matt Eberflus
Colts defensive coordinator
Saturday, January 15 - Nathaniel Hackett
Packers offensive coordinator
Friday, January 14 - Byron Leftwich
Buccaneers offensive coordinator
Friday, January 7 - Kellen Moore
Cowboys offensive coordinator
Friday, January 7 - Bill O’Brien
Alabama offensive coordinator
Thursday, January 13 - Doug Pederson
Former Eagles head coach
Thursday, December 30 - Dan Quinn
Cowboys defensive coordinator
The latest: The Jaguars’ coaching search is approaching its fourth week, and we still don’t know for sure who will land the job. If O’Brien truly was the preferred candidate, as many believed a couple of weeks back, why hasn’t he been hired yet?
Las Vegas Raiders
Resigned: Jon Gruden (HC)
Scheduled/requested interviews: N/A
The latest: Is it Jim Harbaugh time in Sin City? The Raiders were, as expected, one-and-done in the playoffs (thanks in no small part to an officiating blunder), so it’s probably relatively easy for Mark Davis to move on from interim Rich Bisaccia if indeed he wants to. Hovering in the background is Harbaugh, who Pro Football Talk reported “wants to get back to the Super Bowl and win it.”
Miami Dolphins
Fired: Brian Flores (HC)
Scheduled/requested interviews:
- Thomas Brown
Rams assistant head coach - Brian Daboll
Bills offensive coordinator
Sunday, January 16 - Leslie Frazier
Bills defensive coordinator
Sunday, January 16 - Vance Joseph
Cardinals defensive coordinator
- Mike McDaniel
49ers offensive coordinator - Kellen Moore
Cowboys offensive coordinator - Dan Quinn
Cowboys defensive coordinator
The latest: If the Dolphins are indeed committed to rolling with Tua Tagovailoa for a third year (consider us skeptical, to say the least), Daboll becomes the obvious pick. And he probably could ask for a blank check after orchestrating seven — SEVEN! — touchdown drives in Saturday night’s Bills win over the Patriots. If Daboll returns to Miami (he was the team’s offensive coordinator a decade ago), we could absolutely see him bringing Miami legend Ken Dorsey with him as OC.
Minnesota Vikings
Fired: Mike Zimmer (HC), Rick Spielman (GM)
Scheduled/requested HC interviews:
- Todd Bowles
Buccaneers defensive coordinator - Nathaniel Hackett
Packers offensive coordinator
Sunday, January 16 - Kellen Moore
Cowboys offensive coordinator - Jonathan Gannon
Eagles defensive coordinator - Kevin O’Connell
Rams offensive coordinator - Dan Quinn
Cowboys defensive coordinator - DeMeco Ryans
49ers defensive coordinator
Scheduled/requested GM interviews:
- Kwesi Adofo-Mensah
Browns vice president of football operations - Brandon Brown
Eagles director of player personnel - Glenn Cook
Browns vice president of player personnel - Monti Ossenfort
Titans director of player personnel
Sunday, January 16 - Ryan Poles
Chiefs director of player personnel - Catherine Raîche
Eagles vice president of football operations - John Spytek
Buccaneers vice president of player personnel - Eliot Wolf
Patriots player personnel consultant
The latest: Five of the Vikings’ reported candidates have elimination games Sunday, which means many (but not all) of them could have nothing but time to interview for and accept jobs as soon as Monday. Granted, hiring a general manager probably needs to come first, so we expect some significant movement on that front in the coming days.
New York Giants
Fired/retired: Joe Judge (HC), Dave Gettleman (GM)
Scheduled/requested HC interviews:
- None announced
Scheduled/requested GM interviews:
- Ran Carthon
49ers director of pro personnel
w/c January 17 - Ryan Cowden
Titans vice president of player personnel
Friday, January 14
- Quentin Harris
Cardinals vice president of player personnel
Thursday, January 13 - Joe Hortiz
Ravens director of player personnel
Saturday, January 15 - Monti Ossenfort
Titans director of player personnel
Friday, January 14 - Adam Peters
49ers assistant general manager
w/c January 17 - Ryan Poles
Chiefs executive director of player personnel
Thursday, January 13 - Joe Schoen
Bills assistant general manager
Wednesday, January 12 - Adrian Wilson
Cardinals vice president of pro personnel
Wednesday, January 12
The latest: Like the Vikings and Bears, the Giants need to make a decision on GM in short order. To be honest, that’s the one domino that’s holding up the entire cycle. The Giants won’t even begin interviewing coaches until they have a GM in place, and the top HC candidates would be foolish to commit to anything before knowing all of their options.
Seattle Seahawks
Fired: N/A
Scheduled/requested interviews: N/A
The latest: Pete Carroll and John Schneider will both be back in 2022, ESPN reports, after a normal year-end meeting with Seahawks ownership last week. The big, unresolved question: Will Russell Wilson be back with them?
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