Sometimes there is an argument to be made that the entire hiring process for a new head coach should be postponed until after the Super Bowl. There’s a good reason for that.
With a playoff team’s coordinator among the top candidates for a new job, he has absolutely no time in the day to interview for a potential promotion or put together the best plan to win the next game. Not enough.
Some coaches underestimate how much preparing for an interview for a head coaching job can detract from their job. The reality is that every minute you spend preparing to impress the owner (especially onboarding a new employee) is the rest of the hiring committee’s time that could be spent looking for trends. 1 minute less. Attack the next opponent and see if your unit smoothed out all the tells, whether offensive or defensive.
Broncos coach Sean Payton spoke to reporters today about the dynamic as the team prepares to face the Bills in the wild-card round of the playoffs.
“But the big challenge this time of year is to minimize distractions when playing these games,” Payton said. “The league is always thinking about when to do interviews and when to do things like that. Having been in that position, when I had the opportunity to do an interview, when I got home, my wife She didn’t ask what the strategy was. She was asking, “What about the schools in this neighboring city?” There’s a balance there, and I think the league has carefully considered the window to achieve that, and rightly so. ”
Unless the Broncos upset the Bills, Payton won’t have to deal with a coach like defensive coordinator Vance Joseph being interviewed. If that happens, Joseph will have a week to meet with the Jets, then head to Arrowhead and be tasked with developing a strategy to defeat the dragon that is the Kansas City Chiefs.
So yes, the best solution is to delay everything. There are no distractions until the confetti falls. Until that happens, the head coach of a playoff team could end up with coordinators spinning the plate too much with one or two people at a time, when they should be fully focused on the job at hand rather than preparing for an interview. would need to be taken into account. , command it, and at home are filled with questions not about the next playoff game, but about the possibility of moving to a new city with a new title and a new zero in salary.
