The Atlanta Falcons are ensuring they line up quite a few candidates for their head coaching vacancy, which they created when they parted ways with Arthur Smith following the 2023 season. Until a short time ago, those names were mostly rising coordinators and experienced coordinators, with a dash of interim head coaches and associate head coaches thrown in. That changed when they made the Bill Belichick interview official recently, and it changed again Tuesday night when they dropped another bombshell.
There has been speculation that the Falcons would explore Jim Harbaugh as a candidate, and in my list of potential hires I mentioned him as the kind of big name and highly successful coach who would likely end up on Arthur Blank’s shortlist.