Austin Gayle

I think if you're the biggest McDermott hater, you're kind of arguing that Josh Allen kind of carried him to these six straight divisional rounds and you don't know what he could be with a different quarterback situation in the postseason.

I feel like the teams that are going to be willing to accept that they're not going to get Jesse Minter or Clint Kubiak or these new young hot schemers are going to say, hey, we're going to go get someone that has proven he can lead a team into the postseason and has, in the past at least, I feel like elevated the defensive personnel.

And I think that's where the Raiders, the Browns,

the Titans, those are three teams that I think are in that desperation mode where they're probably not going to get one of the two or three best candidates remaining and going to have to settle.

And if you're settling in a bad coaching class, Sean McDermott is a really good coach to settle on.

He needs to go to a team that is looking to kind of snap a playoff drought or postseason any kind of success rather than kind of going to a team that has this expectation now like, hey, we need to go win a Super Bowl.

I wouldn't mind if I'm also waking up and Clint Kubiak is hired elsewhere.

I

Chris Shula is hired elsewhere.

Jesse Minter is hired elsewhere.

Because I don't think the Raiders are one of the more favorable jobs open, especially now that the Buffalo job is open.

And if those young names aren't available and then McDermott is kind of where the Raiders have to settle, like they did last year.

Tom Brady wanted Liam Cohen.

He wanted Ben Johnson.

They settled for Pete Carroll.

Obviously, it didn't work out.

I think settling for McDermott in this class is, is better than some of the other options where like you're retrying.

If I wake up and it's Matt Nagy, I'm going to, I'm going to lose my mind.

But like, that's not, you don't fire Tom, or not fire Tom, they didn't want to fire Tom when he stepped down.

But you don't go from Tomlin to McDermott.