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Welcome, the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today from Sports Illustrated, a first-time guest, which I cannot believe it, has been this long. We have not had him on the show before. Connor, thank you very much for taking the time and do this today. Thanks for having me. I really appreciate it. So we yesterday on the show talked with Sando about some of the firings that have happened already and the carousel, the coaching carousel

starting to spin in the NFL. And what I wanted to do kind of as a second entry after that

was talk about the candidates, the guys that are going to be in the running for some of these jobs.

And you have done such a great job over the last few years keeping tabs on this. I almost feel like

you're on the coaching beat year round. You have a list that comes out before the season every year

that kind of looks at who the coaching candidates could be in the upcoming cycle after the

season was over. I think right after Christmas, right before the new year, you did a reprisal

of that list with a lot of the names

that we've heard over the last 24 hours or so. And I know you do a lot of kind of grinding,

intentional work on this to keep tabs on who those names might be. So I thought that you were kind

of the perfect guy to have this discussion with. Well, I'm honored. I like that it's a very weird subnitch of the NFL world that I somehow

found myself kind of trying to make a mark on. So I can talk for hours about head coaching

philosophy, which is a very weird thing to be able to talk about. So I do want to talk about that

first. We're going to get into the individual candidates. We're going to kind of run through these guys, a lot of whom have already been requested for some of these jobs. You guys know a lot of the names. Your Conner's written about a lot of these guys. A lot of these people, I think, just by virtue of where they were at and their careers and how long I've been around are people I've had conversations with as well, which is kind of the first time last year,

this year that that's consistently happening, which I think allows us to talk about these

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