The groundwork to find the New York Giants' next coach began not long after Brian Daboll was fired in November.
Joe Schoen went to work doing research and coming up with a list of potential candidates.
Now that the NFL regular season is over, the search begins in earnest. Interim coach Mike Kafka will get a courtesy interview, though that's just the start of the "wide net" Schoen promised to cast after ownership confirmed he'd be back for a fifth year as general manager.
"There's no directive that it has to be an offensive guy or a defensive guy or special teams or college or whatever it may be -- having head coaching experience previously," Schoen said Monday.