are teams really going to be falling all over themselves for a coach from a below .500 team with a middling offense who got rejected by so many other teams the previous year?

Say it was the Bears looking for a new head coach, wouldn't we be underwhelmed with that hire?

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Well there's seemingly 10 yearly NFL HC vacancies, plus the NCAA blue bloods throwing fat stacks around.

Jim Caldwell
Mike McCoy
Mike McCarthy
Bill O’Brien
Andy Reid
Gus Bradley
Mike Pettine
Chuck Pagano
Jay Gruden
Sean Payton

Plus Mike Mularkey and Dan Campbell are both only interim coaches, even though Dan Campbell is pretty awesome. Add those two names onto the list. That's 12 possible vacancies, let's be charitable and pretend Campbell, Mike McCarthy, Bill O'Brien and Sean Payton live to fight another day. Still 8 spots open. Then there's Gus Malzahn, Charlie Strong, Mark Richt, Les Miles, and Mike Riley are all pretty unlikely to keep their jobs. Maybe Strong saved himself by beating Oklahoma and the Nebraska job isn't what it used to be, but LSU (definitely), Georgia (definitely) and Auburn (mayyyybe) are big time jobs.

Plus, who are the big names this year? Matt Patricia is a great candidate, I've thought so for a while now. He was second to Harbaugh on my wish list. Then you'll have the Gruden and Cowher speculation but those guys aren't going anywhere. There's a handshake agreement in NY that McAdoo takes over for Coughlin in the next couple seasons, so I doubt he leaves. Then its pretty underwhelming from the coordinator ranks. Maybe McDermott, the DC for Carolina.

Art Briles, Kevin Sumlin, Gary Patterson and David Shaw will get phone calls but the only college coach I see as likely to make the NFL jump is Jim Mora.

So yea, lots of vacancies and not many guys to fill them. Gase will get phone calls, he's the CUTLER WHISPERER.

You have to be a moron or a pedo to take yourself off the NFL head coaching track for a college job. You can pretty much suck at X and O in college and still be a winning team each year if you can recruit.

Payton, Mc Carthy and Reid would be on the street about 5 minutes before they got another offer.

Anyway, Gase interviewed for many coaching jobs last year, including the Bears and got nothing. Some people aren't impressive in interviews. Rivera had that problem for a long time.

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He was my guy last year.

I am shocked he wasn't looking to bolt MSU at the end of the year. That job becomes untenable now with Harbaugh and Meyer in his division.

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You're definitely right about Payton, McCarthy and Reid (if Reid still wants to do it).

But if you're Kevin Sumlin, and A&M is paying you assload of money to be surprisingly competitive in the SEC, wouldn't you wait for the perfect situation? I mean if the Packers did fire McCarthy that'd be a pretty good set up. Imagine Rodgers figures it out on his own, gets another ring and you take credit for the turnaround. There's promise on the Colts roster but that's a shitty place to work. The rest are the usual basement dwellers that have a new coach every other season.

The basement dwellers swallow the Adam Gase's of the world, devour them, then shit them out. But, they'll hire a guy like Gase because they can say "look what he did with Jay Cutler, he'll do that with Bortles/Manziel/Mariota/Luck/<insert overhyped shitty QB who's only positive attribute is youth>" and the season ticket holders buy it.

Gase will take the job because you're right, he'd have to be a moron or a pedo to pass up the chance.

I would disagree with your sentiments about Mc Carthy. He's the biggest dope of a coach GB has ever had. How many playoff games has he lost because of him being dumb?

If GB fired him, I doubt very much Mc Carthy will get another job in the NFL.

Our positions are not mutually exclusive. I don't have much respect for him either but someone would

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He's almost 60...not going to the NFL any time soon.

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Andy Reid, McCarthy, and Gus Bradley will still have the same coaching job next year.

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