Anthony Herron

So the volume of those opportunities, it doesn't feel like are there anymore.

And so to attack that, to make sure that the coffers are as full as they can be.

Mike Loxley was a DB, but he's become thought of as this offensive wizard in college football.

Kevin Sumlin, a guy who's on his Maryland staff, was similar in that way.

Played defense, but became this offensive-minded guy as a college head coach.

But for black coaches, there's not as many...

quarterback coaches, offensive coordinators, offensive play callers, even when they are OCs.

And that tends to be where teams want to pluck those opportunities from.

And in the end, just like we're talking about Declan Doyle,

He's 29 years old or maybe just became 30 or whatever.

And so he's at a space in his career where he was comfortable passing up on an opportunity from the Eagles and then another one just came right away.

For black coaches, there still is.

For a lot of them that I communicate with, still that hesitation to, if I don't take this, is another one going to come?

How many of these bites at the apple am I truly going to get?

Because you want those interviews, that opportunity to be there to impress folks and just have that opportunity to at least

be in the system for them, to be within.

If some old owner's got a little black book, all right, let me be in that guy's black book so he knows I'm an option for him.

But if there's not the frequency of candidates available, then that's where you've got to have more fertile ground where coaches are being developed into offensive play callers because that's where a lot of the jobs are going.

I will believe the Eagles are going to be bad when I see it.

It's certainly possible.