Kaylin Kahler (Kaylin Kaler) - ESPN NFL writer

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158 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 23 Jul

Kaylin Kahler (Kaylin Kaler) - ESPN NFL writer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Rahimi & Grote Show · Are the Bears overrated? Kalyn Kahler calls in to discuss and talk about the NFL landscape heading into training camps (HOUR 4) · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

He's sitting and waiting and he takes a selfie of himself surrounded by the empty chairs because the moment was that hurtful to him.

And it was so...

you know, heartbreaking for him to realize in that moment, because he's seeing, you know, on social media, the insiders at that point were tweeting that Liam Cohen was there and that they, and they were using language that he, they were actually negotiating a contract for Liam Cohen to become the next head coach.

Now the Jaguars told me there was no negotiating of a contract being done that night.

They were simply interviewing Liam, but the insiders were reporting that a contract is being negotiated.

So Patrick seeing that while he's sitting there and it's, he's realizing that his interview was,

may not have been what he thought it was.

And then he gets the reputation going forward as someone who was the Rooney Rule candidate.

And as we reported in this story, we talked to more coaches, we talked to some coaching agents, and a coaching agent told me that his guys, he represents a lot of minority candidates, and he said that the word Rooney now

has become this word where guys are like, I don't want to be the Rooney.

I don't want to be the Rooney rule candidate.

And this agent said he doesn't like to send his clients into an interview where he knows they don't have an opportunity to get the job.

Yeah, this was another really interesting part of the story is the league instituted this program that was actually like doing a good job.

Like it was it was seeing sort of results, but also they didn't do it long enough to see if it really would have great results or not.

But for a couple of years, they were requiring that every team have an offensive assistant that was a minority and they were funding half of that position's salary.

The league was funding it.

So that was to encourage teams to really participate in this, even though it was a requirement.

Also, it was the only it was the first and only hiring requirement that the league has ever has ever put out there for clubs, which is a big deal because the league can't like, you know, it's hard to make clubs do anything.

Right.

And so this was like a big deal for the league to do this.

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