Kaylin Kahler (Kaylin Kaler) - ESPN NFL writer
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Kaylin Kahler (Kaylin Kaler) - ESPN NFL writer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's an extremely complicated story with this hiring process because what happened here is that the day before he comes in for his interview, the Jaguars finally fire their general manager, who at the time there was a lot of reporting that nobody wanted to work with this general manager.
And they had waited and waited and waited, and they didn't make a change.
And then finally, the day before, Patrick Graham is scheduled to come in for his in-person interview, and he was going to be the second minority interviewer.
to interview in person.
They had already interviewed Robert Sala the week before, which means as soon as Patrick Graham finishes his interview at their facility, the Jaguars are Rooney rule compliant and they can make a head coaching hire.
And within, as soon as they fired Trent Balky, things changed.
And Liam Cohen said,
came back into the equation and he, at the time, all the reporting was that he was going to stay in Tampa and be the offensive coordinator there and that he had taken himself out of the Jaguars process.
So when Patrick Graham goes to Jacksonville, he's thinking he has a real shot at this job because as far as he knows, Liam Cohen is no longer a candidate because Liam had been reported with staying in Tampa.
And there were two stories at the time, one by CBS and one by Sports Illustrated after the Jaguars made the head coaching hire
that reported that essentially the Jaguars kept Liam's presence secretive that day, which was the same day that Patrick Graham was there to interview because they knew they needed Patrick Graham to do his interview in order to make their eventual head coaching hire because they still needed one more external candidate who was a minority to interview to be compliant with the Rooney rule.
So...
Patrick Graham is not aware of all this when he goes in and he does his interview.
And then according to two sources that we spoke to, as he's leaving the Jaguars facility, he actually sees Liam Cohen entering the facility.
So after he completes his interview at the facility, he sees Liam Cohen entering.
And it's a shock because at that point, everyone thought Liam Cohen was out of it.
And he was supposed to have a dinner reservation that night with Jaguars executives, including the owner, Shad Khan.
And Patrick shows up and he waits 30 minutes and no one is there yet.
Ultimately, the team president does show up, but he was the only executive of the four who were scheduled to attend this dinner that ended up attending the dinner.
And so Patrick takes a selfie in the 30 minutes that he's sitting and waiting for this dinner that he thought was kind of a continuation of his interview.
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