1) Jeffrey Lurie
It was a shocking moment, when during his press conference to introduce Doug Pederson has the next Philadelphia Eagles head coach, the owner of the Philadelphia Eagles admitted he started looking for Chip Kelly’s replacement well before he ultimately fired his third-year head coach. From the press conference:
“In this process, we started with about 25 candidates that we completely researched, analyzed, vetted, however you want to describe it. And that research started during the season — at some point late in the season — and it gave us some time to — if we needed to go this direction — be fully prepared for the search process.