It was very clear what you meant from context. And, yes, I agree that, as a general rule, its best to not freak out over rumored hires until their actual hires.
A couple of offseasons ago, Houston Nutt came to visit in the offseason, and people were absolutely going nuts about Jerry hiring him for whatever-position-was-maybe-open-at-the-time. That stuff just comes with the dinner with a discontented fanbase, but it is pretty silly to wade through each offseason.
The reality of the NFL is there are a lot of good experienced coaches out there, and a lot of young 'up and coming' guys from college, retired players, and the lower pro ranks that all 32 teams can field staffs that have impressive resumes. It's also the case that fans don't really actually have any idea what the individual positions coaches really do on a daily basis. So complaining about how teams staff those positions is pretty silly.
What you sort of want to do is look to the coordinators and see who those guys have in their past lives and how they might put together a group of a dozen or however many guys who have a reasonable shot at working well together. If you have philosophical or personality issues--like the hinted dispute between Linehan and Pollack--that's a bigger deal that most everything else, I would think.
