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Super Bowl LV thoughts: How many teams wish they'd waited to hire Todd Bowles and Byron Leftwich now?

Paying homage to a journalistic godfather with several thoughts after Super Bowl LV:

One idea that has gained some traction in recent weeks to try to correct the problem NFL owners clearly have with hiring Black head coaches is treating the head coach hiring cycle like the league does free agency, and make all teams wait to start interviews and hirings until the Tuesday after the Super Bowl.

Every year we seem to hear the excuse that Coordinator X wasn’t in a team’s final candidates because his current team was making a deep playoff run.