Ben Johnson decided last offseason to come back to the Detroit Lions for another season as their offensive coordinator, putting off becoming an NFL head coach for another year.
He has to look around and wonder if he should keep waiting.
If you're Johnson, Aaron Glenn, Brian Flores, Liam Coen, Kliff Kingsbury or any other top candidate in this cycle, the options are not great. There were six openings as of Thursday, and every single one has serious drawbacks. That's generally the issue with teams that have an opening at head coach. In most cases, those teams were bad enough that it led to them firing their head coach.