Joe Schoen

We had done a lot of research already because of the runway that we had leading up to the end of the season.

It worked out that we were the first club on Coach Harbaugh's dance card and

We didn't let him leave the building.

Yeah, it's hard to find a lot of positives in that, but that would be one.

You don't have to sit in your office doing research and you're worried about somebody coming in and you've got a Thursday press conference or you're Googling or you're on the phone about another coach.

So that would be the only positive, that you do get ahead.

Everybody knows you have a head coaching opening.

You get a chance to talk to the agents.

You get a chance to do research on a lot of football coaches.

Yeah, it was a decision that was made, and at the end of the day, we hadn't won enough games.

And it was very difficult because he's really one of my good friends professionally and personally, and we worked together for a long time.

So it was.

It was a difficult situation.

It was tough to handle.

But within about a 20-minute period, we had to move on.

Hey, Kafka, we've got a team meeting.

We've got to address the staff.

It was a little bit of a whirlwind.

But Dave's still really one of my good friends.

We FaceTime.