How Do Ya'll Feel About Dan Quinn Doing Interviews During The Playoffs?

[Verdict]

Says you. 6 hours film prep or looking for tendencies or scheming could be a difference in a one and done scenario.

It’s naive to assume that a person wouldn’t also spend prep time and spend time doing due diligence before submitting to an interview.

 

[VaqueroTD]

Why has the NFL not outlawed this distraction yet?

Can these loser franchises really not wait an extra couple weeks or a month to interview coaches still in the playoff's?

I don’t care if Quinn leaves. I expect it this year.

I do care that his mind is going to be other places during the most important time of the year. You are an employee of the Dallas Cowboys until you’re not, so your sole focus should remain on the job at hand and when that job is completed then do your interviews.

This distraction that loser teams are allowed to cause playoff teams should be stopped immediately.

100% agree. Not fair to anyone. Not fair to the winning teams, and not fair to the person has to split time between job interviews that will change their life, and the toughest time of their current job. Doesn’t make any sense that they allow this during the playoffs.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

I think all coaching interviews and hires should be outlawed until after the Super Bowl. They have a free agency window that opens in, I think, late February (along with the combine and trade window). I think the week after the SB should be when the Coaching Hiring window opens. At that time, teams can interview and hire whatever coaches they want. However, anytime prior to that from the start of the season (unless it's an interim coach) should be seen as tampering.

If I'm not mistaken, I think the actual interviews are already outlawed, but contacting the coach isn't. IMO, they should change the rule to outlaw even contacting the coach until after the Super Bowl is over.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

I think the league would stop it but it would be viewed as unfair to the coaches as others would be getting those interviews. They would need to put an entire new system in place where you cannot start interviewing anyone for coaching and GM vacancies until after the super bowl.

That's why I'm saying that the best solution, imo, is to have a coaching window like they do for trades and FA. They could really have fun with it. The week after the SB, the coaching window opens where teams can interview coaches and hire them. Then, they can do the Senior Bowl the week after. The week after, open the trade window, before finally opening the FA window after that leading into the Combine and the draft process. Doing that would mean that they still dominate the offseason.

Beides, if they're interviewing and hiring coaches prior to the SB, what happens if a coach retires after winning the SB? Say, hypothetically, that we win it and Mike McCarthy decides to retire. Without the window, we'd be stuck with the rest of the litter. By doing it by way of a coaching window, then it leaves the possibility for SB winning teams to also be able to have their choice of coaches too, should the HC retire after the SB.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

If I'm not mistaken, I think the actual interviews are already outlawed, but contacting the coach isn't. IMO, they should change the rule to outlaw even contacting the coach until after the Super Bowl is over.

That's my point with the coaching window. They should have a coaching window the week after the SB. Anything from TC until then involving coaching searches (excluding for interim coaches) is tampering.

 

[foofighters]

Why has the NFL not outlawed this distraction yet?

Can these loser franchises really not wait an extra couple weeks or a month to interview coaches still in the playoff's?

I don’t care if Quinn leaves. I expect it this year.

I do care that his mind is going to be other places during the most important time of the year. You are an employee of the Dallas Cowboys until you’re not, so your sole focus should remain on the job at hand and when that job is completed then do your interviews.

This distraction that loser teams are allowed to cause playoff teams should be stopped immediately.

Meh, it happens all over. His defense hasn't been as good as it could have this year. If Dallas flops, he aint going anywhere. If he leaves, I won't really be that broken up about it.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

That's my point with the coaching window. They should have a coaching window the week after the SB. Anything from TC until then involving coaching searches (excluding for interim coaches) is tampering.

I'm in full agreement with this. I'm honestly surprised the league hasn't banned contacting coaches for interviews before the Super Bowl. I suspect most fans agree.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

I'm in full agreement with this. I'm honestly surprised the league hasn't banned contacting coaches for interviews before the Super Bowl. I suspect most fans agree.

And I'd imagine the coaches on competitive teams would agree. The offseason is long. They have from February until April before the draft even happens. Surely, teams can find a suitable coach between then.

 

[ClappingCarrot]

I don't like the concept either, but this has been going on for years.

Wasn't it Kris Richard that was interviewing with the Dolphins during our 2018 run?

 

[bsbellomy]

No big deal. What are we talking? Maybe two or three hours of discussion.

These interviews happen in person. These guys leave the team to travel.

 

[Kingofholland]

Why has the NFL not outlawed this distraction yet?

Can these loser franchises really not wait an extra couple weeks or a month to interview coaches still in the playoff's?

I don’t care if Quinn leaves. I expect it this year.

I do care that his mind is going to be other places during the most important time of the year. You are an employee of the Dallas Cowboys until you’re not, so your sole focus should remain on the job at hand and when that job is completed then do your interviews.

This distraction that loser teams are allowed to cause playoff teams should be stopped immediately.

Was never a fan of it and agree ideally permission isn't granted until after the season. Technically the Cowboys could say no, but then they could piss off the coaches.

With all that said who knows how much prep and time actually goes into it. Quinn is pretty well known at this point and probably has his thoughts already organized and ready to go.

 

[Blast From The Past]

I thought they weren’t allowed to do it until after Conference championships now? And I hate it regardless. I get that you have to get out there quickly, but it has to be a distraction

Plenty of time after the season is over to get your next coach and staff for the next season. They would each have the same advantage/disadvantages each so it would be fair and fair to the teams that made it into the playoffs without distracting important pieces to those teams aspirations.

 

[JohnBoy]

I think this kind of stuff should be against NFL rules, until after the SB.

 

[FoxF]

Job openings are temporary and competitive, can’t blame guys for wanting to advance their careers while the position is still open.

 

[5Stars]

Did not read the whole thread, but didn't the same thing happen when Jimmy was coaching the Cowboys and during the end of the season he was involved with an interview with Miami while still with the Cowboys?

 

[Blackrain]

Why has the NFL not outlawed this distraction yet?

Can these loser franchises really not wait an extra couple weeks or a month to interview coaches still in the playoff's?

I don’t care if Quinn leaves. I expect it this year.

I do care that his mind is going to be other places during the most important time of the year. You are an employee of the Dallas Cowboys until you’re not, so your sole focus should remain on the job at hand and when that job is completed then do your interviews.

This distraction that loser teams are allowed to cause playoff teams should be stopped immediately.

I totally agree and I think if you're a coach committed to your current team you should tell the team that wants to interview you that you will conduct it after the playoffs are over and if they don't like it too bad.
In my mind it would be better to stay the defensive coordinator of a winner.
Then to take on some project of resurrecting some loser franchise especially when you're probably making head coach money as it is

 

[Darkhound]

This practive IMO is wrong. It generates unnecessary distractions for the still-competing teams. I understand the "need" by the eliminated teams that want to start planning etc, but it generates uncertainty on the other teams.

All interviews of this kind should be done after the Superbowl or limit the requests to just eliminated teams at the time of the solictation imo

 

[Reverend Conehead]

Job openings are temporary and competitive, can’t blame guys for wanting to advance their careers while the position is still open.

... and if the rules required all that to wait until the Super Bowl is over, they would be able to do that just fine. No other candidate would be able to be contacted or interviewed until after the Super Bowl either.

 

[nate dizzle]

What the NFL needs to do is make it so no coaches or assistant coaches can be interviewed or hired from any source until after the Super Bowl. It would eliminate the urgency that these coaches feel to secure a spot somewhere before it's filled.

 

[TwoCentPlain]

These interviews happen in person. These guys leave the team to travel.

Or the interviewing team comes to them to interview.