Mike Florio

The Raiders are going to need to have their defensive coordinator.

My guess is Clint Kubiak, who's likely to become the new Raiders coach, already knows who he's targeting, and we'll just see.

But there aren't many seats left as the coaching carousel starts to grind to a halt.

Most candidates for head coaching jobs go into their interview with a full list of the

the people that they would try to bring with them.

It's impossible to guarantee that you're going to deliver them.

So I'm assuming Munkin already knows who he wants if Schwartz wasn't going to stay.

And it would have been, well, of course, you know, the Browns are dysfunctional, but it would have been beyond dysfunctional for the Browns to just think,

oh, we're just moving chess pieces around on a board here.

All we have to do is make Munkin the head coach and Schwartz is under contract, so he'll stay happily as defensive coordinator.

It should have been obvious to them he was going to be very upset, and this would be the likely outcome if they considered him seriously for the job and then didn't give it to him.

Well...

Let me take a step back and say that this entire conversation underscores how ridiculous these measures are that the NFL puts in place to try to obscure the fact that for decades the NFL's hiring practices have been far less than ideal when it comes to coaches and general managers, given the demographics of the league, given the available candidates.

And it's always talk, and it's these little Band-Aid measures that try to create the impression that they're trying to have a more diverse overall team

workforce among the 32 franchises i had a good conversation with demore smith yesterday the former nflpa executive director because he said for years there's no accountability and until there's accountability nothing's going to change and he has a great idea

for the various states out there in which NFL teams are headquartered, their attorneys general could try to investigate and enforce the state equivalence to the civil rights law that the federal government surely isn't going to be inclined to enforce in a situation like this, and that could try to improve it.

But my bigger problem is that there's even something like that in place, because remember when they initially came up with this

compensatory draft pick reward, it was going to go to the team that made the hire.

And the candidates were like, wait a minute, that stigmatizes us.

It makes it look like we only got the job or the deciding factor was the team that hires us is going to get these draft picks.