Brad Childress coached the Minnesota Vikings and Mike McCarthy joined the Green Bay Packers because the Minnesota brass wouldn’t let Childress leave without a deal. Were the Vikings a better opportunity? Or did they just offer him the job first and he couldn’t risk saying no? The coaching carousel in the NFL often doesn’t reward the best coaches with the best opportunities, though the top candidates can be persnickety about where they take interviews, narrowing the potential destinations. But what if looked more like your fantasy draft, or the NFL draft?
In an attempt to reward the best coaching candidates with the best opportunities, we put together a draft of potential head coaches based on which situations would be best, not who is offering the most money the earliest.