Jones & Keefe: The Patriots coaching search is already a sham

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00:00Again, this is why the Rooney Rule sucks.

00:02And I think you should have something like that in place,

00:04but it's why it's imperfect is what I should say.

00:06Yeah, I wonder how many times it's worked because one thing

00:07they always point to their life. Because if you're wasting

00:09Pep Hamilton's time, and you're wasting Byron Lefkowitz's

00:12time, that's not fair to those guys. No, it's not. Now

00:14those guys are accepting the interviews, right? There is

00:17that, and one of the things when you've heard people

00:20make the case for the Rooney Rule is like, all right,

00:22well, they're at least getting the experience. You get

00:24your name out there too, which is something. And then

00:26you have like Eric Biennemi who took like 20 interviews

00:28and like never got a job. And then he took a job in

00:30college and got fired after a year. So I don't, yeah,

00:33I don't know. It's certainly not perfect, but would

00:36they be better off not having it at all? I don't know,

00:39probably not. The one they always point to is, but here's

00:42the thing. They have like one example ever where they're

00:44like, oh, the Steelers weren't gonna hire Mike Tomlin.

00:46Then they were blown away by Mike Tomlin. So see, this

00:49works. And you're like, all right, that's one guy in

00:52how many years? Tomlin's been there forever. So what

00:54I would say is you don't even need to satisfy quote

00:57unquote, the Rooney rule to interview real candidates.

01:01Like to me, you should be interviewing Brian Flores

01:03and you should be interviewing Aaron Glenn, right?

01:05You should be talking to those guys. It should be

01:07the top of the list. So like you don't need to satisfy

01:11the Rooney rule. You just need to interview the best

01:12candidates. So I think, look, maybe they have real

01:15interest. And I don't mean to be unfair to Pat

01:17Pamilton or Byron Lefkowitz. Maybe those guys are

01:20real candidates, maybe. But if you're just satisfying

01:22the Rooney rule, this is not the year to do it. There

01:24are real candidates who are deserving of jobs, who

01:27should be highly sought after. That isn't satisfying

01:30anything. Just wait for Flores. Wait for Glenn. Talk

01:33to them. It's a real interview process. It's a real

01:36thing. It's not a sham. Unfortunately, this makes

01:39me think even more strongly that Vrabel's the guy

01:41and this is all a sham process. And they're not

01:43going to talk to real candidates. Yeah. I mean, they're

01:45talking about Johnson. I know. But they're not going

01:47to wait for Glenn. They're not going to wait for,

01:50again, Brian Flores. They're not going to talk to

01:54Liam Cohen and guys like this. Call about Kevin

01:56O'Connell. It makes me fear that they just have

01:59Vrabel in their back pocket and that's it.

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