Saturday marks the fifth full day of the Cowboys coaching search as they officially parted ways with McCarthy on Monday. If you are curious, it took about a week last time they were looking for a head coach for them to ultimately land on McCarthy himself.
It appears that this will not be the case this time around expected that this thing is going to last until mid-February.
Lions coordinators Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn are each expected to interview for the job at some point. It is likely that variable that will serve as the main reason why Dallas has to wait so long to make a decision.
The facts that we already know beg to differ.
Confounding your conclusion are three things.
1. As you yourself mention... history suggests they don't like to let this stuff drag out. There's reason for that, of course, not the least of which is that the sooner you name a HC, the sooner you can start hiring the rest of the staff before all of the other teams--some of which aren't even switching out head coaches--will be competing for the best regarded candidates.
2. Calvin Watkins is the reporter responsible for this new information.
(Have to link to the video through another tweet due to firewall.)
To be fair to you, you've mostly accurately quoted him... his verb phrase was, "BJ and AG are gonna also be expected to come in for interviews."
Notice. Calvin has left himself
plausible deniability in deciding to characterize it as that... he could have said something straightforward... he did not.
I have no axe to grind with Watkins, I'm just observing the fact that he didn't say "My sources have confirmed BJ and AG will be asked to interview"... he's put himself in position to claim "you heard it here first," yet the reality is, what we heard is "this
maybe/might/could happen."
Intelligent minds can decide for themselves how likely it is that a "are gonna be expected" will develop into actual tangible action, or if it only amounts to a reporter trying to posture himself. Free country.
3. As I've illuminated in a couple of places previously... pay little to no attention to words... look at what you know... look at
action.
Two of the three interviews scheduled and taking place as soon as they could possibly put those three together are with individuals who check off the Rooney Rule box. As of
tomorrow, what absolutely has to happen for this hiring cycle will be done and over.
That's just coincidence???
If that's what you want to believe, again, free country.
Then, that third interview that occurred yesterday? It was with someone that, of course, they already know very very well. It was an "initial interview" but only quantitatively. Qualitatively, most of what you'd want to accomplish in a first interview--summed up as getting to know a candidate as a person and a professional--wasn't applicable/necessary. What do you think they talked about then? Rationally, they spent their time with KM talking fairly in-depth about who he'd want to have on a KM-led staff, and at least at a ballpark level about what compensation would be--enough to have confidence that that wouldn't become a deal killer.
Bonus. They interviewed two DCs, one of which isn't even presently considered to be a HC target for any other team. What do you think that means? How would it be advantageous if you knew KM was your #1 prospect and you felt pretty good about being able to bring him back? Right?
The actions irrefutably say this is getting done just as soon as they can legally offer KM the job, and that they already have a head start on the hiring process for defensive coordinator.
