Brian Batko

I've got a pretty good thing going, and I'd rather not incinerate myself and kill my chances of ever being a head coach again because you're laughing, but that's how you get the retread label.

You take one of these jobs that's not good, you fail at it,

And then you're labeled as that forever, fairly or unfairly.

So, yeah, I mean, to Shula specifically, though, Joe, like, just to answer your question, yeah, I think if it – I don't really understand why the timing of the Steeler search was what it was.

I suppose you can make the case that,

The sooner you get the guy in place, regardless of who it is, the sooner you start building your staff because assistants are already jumping around from spot to spot throughout the league.

The sooner you get draft strategy discussed among the high-level thinkers.

But I just looked at it more as it's been 19 years.

What's another week or so to wait at that point?

I don't know.

I mean, I guess I'd like to see who he puts around himself first.

In a vacuum, you know, somebody whose last time we saw him on the sideline was things really went haywire in Dallas.

He had Micah Parson sort of taking shots at him, and then he walked it back, which I don't really know what to make of that.

But it seemed like things got a little weird and tense at the end with the Cowboys and

I guess maybe C plus for McCarthy because I thought there were better candidates out there.

But again, like I said at the top,

It's hard for me to really know how Shula or Sheilhaus, for that matter, or Clay Kubiak, for that matter, comes across in these interviews.

I guess I was just under the impression that these virtual interviews that guys are doing in between game prep and stuff and installing their game plan for the Seahawks or whoever are not that thorough.

And oftentimes it does take another longer, more formal sit-down in-person interview with them to get a feel for the candidate.

Is it okay now to ask people to deliver?