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Playing NFL Head Coach Matchmaker + Quentin Lake & Maurice Jones-Drew talk Rams-Bears, Mike Tomlin & more! | Inside Coverage

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4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Siciliano and Jori Epstein wishcast their ideal fits for all nine head coach openings. Plus, Andrew chats with Rams safety Quentin Lake and Jags legend Maurice Jones-Drew.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Andrew Siciliano.

0:01.3

Coming up on Inside Coverage, let's play Matchmaker. Jory Epstein and I have nine teams. We'll find a match for all nine head coaching vacancies. I'll ask Maurice Jones Drew, the former rushing champion, who he would hire if you were running a team. And what's the key to victory for the Rams Sunday in Chicago? And the answer is not stay warm. Quentin Lake. Rams DB joins us. You should as well.

0:23.5

Inside coverage. Next. I promise. I promise at one point today during this edition of inside coverage on Yahoo,

0:41.8

the how and the why, any and everything you need to know about the national football league.

0:45.4

We are going to talk about divisional weekend. There are games. There are four of them.

0:50.2

There are eight teams remaining. It is kind of cliched, but it is for my money, the best

0:55.3

football weekend of the year. But we still have coaching to talk about because there are nine

1:01.1

jobs open. And we're going to play matchmaker today. It's like fiddler on the roof, but different,

1:07.7

except it's a football podcast. Hi, my name is Andrew Siciliano, joining me today

1:12.7

to make matches, none other. Actually, I don't know that there's anyone other than Jory Epstein

1:17.5

that I would want to do this job, the aforementioned Yahoo senior NFL writer. Hi there, Jory.

1:25.3

Hi, Andrew. That is very high praise, perhaps undeserved.

1:28.8

I keep thinking about how you asked us for surprises in the coaching carousel a couple

1:33.3

weeks before the end of the season.

1:35.3

And I was like, my surprise is that Mike Tomlin and John Harbaugh aren't going anywhere because

1:40.3

logically, they are the best fits for the teams they're at, even though in the middle of the season I had predicted Harba leaving.

1:46.5

So you might not actually want to be matchmaking with me

1:49.3

because sometimes I'm like, well, this is illogical,

1:51.9

forgetting that the NFL is, in fact, often illogical.

1:55.7

Yeah, I got, I was talking to somebody that that knows things,

1:59.7

week 18 that weekend.

2:01.7

And he was like, my prediction is that one of Harbaugh, Tomlin, or LaFleur is out.

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