The Giants‘ teaching search will embody candidates from a number of completely different conditions: some from playoff groups, some from golf equipment that didn’t attain the postseason, and others who should not at the moment employed in any respect.
The NFL has strict guidelines for these interviews based mostly on the coaches’ present job standing.
Here’s a timeline to trace when the Giants can interview candidates as they compete with the opposite 5 groups who’ve vacancies: the Tennessee Titans, Las Vegas Raiders, Atlanta Falcons, Cleveland Browns and Arizona Cardinals.
And who is aware of? Perhaps there shall be extra firings and openings earlier than lengthy.
CAN INTERVIEW ANYTIME: Mike McCarthy, Kevin Stefanski, Kliff Kingsbury, Antonio Pierce, Mike Kafka, future fired coaches
The Giants can interview a coach just about or in individual at any time if he isn’t beneath contract with one other NFL membership. So Kafka, their interim head coach, is eligible to interview each time. So are former head coaches McCarthy (Packers, Cowboys) and Pierce (Raiders), the previous Giants linebacker.
So are Stefanski, the lately fired Cleveland Browns head coach, and Kingsbury, the ousted Washington Commanders offensive coordinator. And it will apply to every other coach who’s fired within the subsequent month as groups are eradicated.
The Pittsburgh Steelers’ Mike Tomlin, the Inexperienced Bay Packers’ Matt LaFleur and the Buffalo Payments’ Sean McDermott are all names to look at.
CAN INTERVIEW THIS WEEK: Vance Joseph, Klint Kubiak, Lou Anarumo, Brian Flores, Klayton Adams
Any playoff coach whose workforce has a bye within the Wild Card spherical, and any coach employed by one other NFL workforce that missed the playoffs, can conduct a digital interview with the Giants this week.
Kubiak, the offensive coordinator for No. 1 NFC-seeded Seattle Seahawks, may interview just about starting on Tuesday since his Seahawks clinched on Saturday. Joseph, the defensive coordinator for the No. 1 AFC-seeded Denver Broncos, and Anarumo (Colts DC) may interview just about starting on Wednesday. Different names eligible to interview just about on Wednesday embody Flores (Vikings DC) and Adams (Cowboys OC), if the Giants are keen.
The Giants can’t do an in-person interview with an assistant coach who’s beneath contract with one other workforce till Jan. 19 on the earliest, so this is a vital week for this class of coaches to get on the board with a digital interview to kick off their candidacy.
CAN INTERVIEW NEXT WEEK: Chris Shula, Jesse Minter, Arthur Smith, Jeff Hafley, Grant Udinski, Matt Burke
Any coach whose workforce is enjoying on this weekend’s Wild Card spherical of the playoffs has to attend till subsequent week to interview just about.
Shula (Rams DC), Minter (Chargers DC), Hafley (Packers DC) and Udinski (Jaguars OC) shall be eligible to interview just about on Tuesday, win or lose, as a result of their groups play on both Saturday or Sunday.
Smith (Steelers OC) and Burke (Texans DC) shall be eligible to interview on Wednesday, as a result of they go head-to-head on Monday.
As soon as the Giants wrap up their first spherical of digital interviews as of Jan. 18, they may have the ability to transfer into the in-person section of their search.
THE IN-PERSON INTERVIEW TIMELINE
Any coach whose workforce is eradicated can conduct an in-person interview with the Giants starting on Jan. 19, which is the Monday after the NFL’s Divisional playoff spherical.
But when a coach’s workforce wins within the Divisional spherical and reaches the NFC or AFC convention championship sport, that coach should wait till Jan. 26 to do his in-person interview.
After the convention title video games, win or lose, these 4 groups’ coaches are eligible to interview in individual. Coaches on the Tremendous Bowl groups are allowed to be interviewed by way of Feb. 1, however they’re forbidden from speaking to different groups after that till Feb. 9, the day after the Tremendous Bowl.
Coaches on the Tremendous Bowl groups additionally should not allowed to interview in individual with different groups in the course of the bye week in the event that they hadn’t accomplished an preliminary digital interview earlier in January.
No coach can both signal a contract or comply with signal a contract till their season is accomplished.
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ROONEY RULE
All NFL groups should conduct an in-person interview with at the least two exterior numerous — minority and/or feminine — candidates for any GM or head teaching interview.
The Giants, the NFL and different groups are being sued by Flores, the Vikings‘ defensive coordinator, in an ongoing discrimination lawsuit connected to the franchise’s GM and coach hiring cycle of 2022. In order that they should be cautious about what they allegedly inform folks like Invoice Belichick and after they allegedly inform him.
Interviewing at the least two of Joseph, Pierce and Flores would fulfill the Rooney Rule for the Giants. In the event that they employed one among them, it will be the primary Black head teaching rent within the franchise’s 101-year historical past.
