Why would you want that job?

It was only 32 of them.

Yeah, Yeah, at some point.

But why would you want that job?

I know it's easy for everybody.

Hold on.

Keep.

I know it's easy for everybody to plug him into that scenario, but I'm going to say to you this I think one of the things that people in the national media gloss over that I hear a ton of people talk about in Houston is Jack Easterby and his influence on this organization and his relationship with owner with the owner.

McNair.

See?

So you bring in Nicosia aerial guy that feels like Hey, that was the Jack Easterby decision.

I don't know why you think if you're a head coach, if you're coming into the scenario that you're actually going to have somewhat autonomy or that osario is gonna have autonomy when Easter bees influence over this organization has been the reason why they've been making some of these decisions in the first place.

It feels like you sign up for something that you're not gonna have control over.

And I don't know why, If you're Erik the enemy, why you want to come to a scenario like that?

Why does not stay in a place like Kansas City, where you're going to constantly be at the forefront of these types of conversations?

It has to be the right job.

It can't just be a job.

I'll tell you the answer to that real quick.

This is my opinion.

What I was going to say because Jay told me, Hold on eyes, that you cut me off a lot, but we're not gonna have that conversation.

And e don't know that Eric Bieniemy wants the job.

He's interviewing for it, but I don't know that he wants it, because if the Shine Watch is not gonna be there, I'm not taking the job.

The appeal in the Lord to take that job is because I got one of the top four quarterbacks in the National Football League underneath the center.

If he's not there, then you know there's nothing to really have a conversation about.

And that's my point.

I would extrapolate a J to your world of the N B A.

I mean, if you're a lifelong MBA assistant and one of the 30 comes open, whether it's the Los Angeles Lakers or the Sacramento Kings.

You're gonna jump at that opportunity because you never know what it might come around again.

I mean, just take a look.

What happened yesterday?

In actuality, If that injury to Mahomes happened in Week four next season and the enemy is still the offensive coordinator, then they've got to go 12 games with their backup or somebody like Jordan Tomoo off the practice squad.

Suddenly you finished four and 12.

Eric the enemy is not gonna be a hot candidate, I guarantee you, even though he's been a great coach and he's put all that experience in their one bad season, what people are going to say, Look what he couldn't do without Patrick Mahomes.

I'm not saying it's right, but that's obviously the first thing people are gonna go Thio.

It's the first thing people are gonna go.

Thio, help us understand why Brian Day Ball, as well as Eric B.

Enemy, have not been hired just yet.

Well, they both should be, and they both deserved because the object of the exercise, we just talked about the Shawn Watson.

That's a big part of the conversation.

The other part of the conversation is to bring in coaches that have developed and one with young quarterbacks.

Eric Be enemies.

Done that with Patrick Mahomes.

Brian Dabbles done that with Josh Allen.

They're both playing right now.

I think that has to, to a certain extent, hurt their candidacy from a standpoint of they can't put their staffs together and I've been there.

I've hired four head coaches, and candidly, the tie goes against the coaches that are still playing because they're getting worried that they can't deliver on who they wanna bring with them in terms of their assistant coaches.

They want to take the bird in the hand when they get another offer, instead of waiting on what they think is gonna be maybe an offer if this coach gets a job.

So you know, there's been a lot of talk key for years that should the whole coaching cycle start after the Super Bowl, so it equals a level playing field.

We saw that for years in New England, where some of these coaches got bypassed because teams didn't wanna wait, and I got to think that Eric B.

Enemy and Brian day ball are being affected by that today.

Now I don't know if that's the only reason they haven't.

They don't have jobs as of today, but I gotta think that's a factor.

Mike on that tip real quick.

And we're being joined by Mike Tannenbaum, our front office insider on the Goodyear hotline, to make it a little bit more equitable.

To give those coaches that, frankly have had success and opportunity to be more successful and promote themselves and not have it is a detriment that their team keeps winning and winning and winning, and that doesn't make any sense.

That's counterintuitive.

How difficult would it be or what is the process to make sure to your suggestion that things would be done afterwards?

I mean, what's the what's the what's the obstacles to getting something like that done?

It just makes common sense.

Yeah, Zuma.

I had the great fortune in my career to represent Steve Kerr.

I represented coaches in both football and basketball and Steve Kerr lost a couple of coaches during the finals, um, and still won championships and Steve Kerr was all about trying to help his assistance get to where they want to go.

So the MBA model works.

I saw it firsthand.

So one idea would be simply that between the bye week of, let's Say, the championship game and the Super Bowl, Eric the Enemy could be named the head coach of the Houston Texans.

Then you turn it over to Nick Acero, the general manager.

Let him get going on all the coaching hires, which I've done before.

It's a lot of work, but it certainly could be done with minimal contact with Coach Be enemy.

Let him get ready for the Super Bowl.

And again, we've seen it in the MBA.

It works.

So the system is flawed from a standpoint that it penalizes success.

You know, we saw it with Romeo Coronel, Josh McDaniels, Charlie Weis for all those years in New England where those guys had deep playoff runs.

And if we want to make any equal playing field, if we want this process to be more transparent and, uh include more people, I think you have to figure out a way that equalize it because guys like Eric B.

Enemy right now.

Clearly, when some of these decisions are close, they're gonna lose the benefit the doubt.

And let's face it, guys, if we're having this conversation in two years, three years, four years, the Kansas City Chiefs are still gonna be in that conversation because they have a great young quarterback.

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