Now only five head coaching vacancies remain after the Baltimore Ravens identify their head man.

How and who does that affect for the Silver and Black in their search for their next head football coach?

That plus more comes up on Friday's edition of the Locked On Raiders podcast for January 23rd, 2026.

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Raider podcast voicemail line for you 707-654-4-4693. As we normally do, we'll close out the show hearing from you. We'll not only close out the show, we'll close out the week and go into championship weekend and see who's going to be competing in the big game, Super Bowl 60 in the Bay Area up in Santa Clara.

So we'll know that by the end of the weekend. But before we get to the weekend, we obviously got to knock out this show and we're definitely going to do that. So we'll hear from you in segment number three. Segment number two, we're going to profile the guys that I believe are the last man standing when it comes to who's going to end up being

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Browns, and Raiders are the last vacancies left. Ten head coachie vacancies now halfway through down to five. So the day started on Thursday with Jordan Schultz, NFL insider. He tweeted

out sources. Chargers defense coordinator,

Jesse Mentor, has canceled a scheduled meeting with the Browns today. He's believed to be in serious

consideration for other head coaching jobs, including Baltimore. Well, that was the team that I thought

originally when John Harbaugh got fired in Baltimore that Jesse Mentor should be the leader in the

clubhouse. He's a guy that's been in that building before. He's worked there for a few years under John Harbaugh. He went to Michigan with Jim Harbaugh. Came back to the NFL, was with the Chargers under Jim Harbaugh. And now, Adam Schaefter a little while later tweeted sources, the Baltimore Ravens are hiring Chargers Defense Coordinator. Jesse Mentor is their head coaching job,

our head coach and signing him to a five-year contract.

Mentor visited the Ravens on Wednesday and now reunites with the team he coached from 2017 to 2020.

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