[With three months to work with, why didn't the Bidwills and Rod Graves do their homework and narrow down to three (at the most) candidates to interview?...with a pre-conceived idea of who their first choice would be.
It's not that difficult to do...especially seeing as all the candidates on the Cardinals' long list were virtually guaranteed to be available, seeing as they are all coordinators or assistant head coaches.]
Because they wanted to cast a wide net and do in depth interviews with ALL the candidates to find out the approach and tactics that each prospective coach would take to bring the Cardinals more victories and success. Why would they want to restrict a search and hiring process which is this critical to just three candidates? IMO, you want a wider net than just three. And without doing in-depth interviews with each and every candidate, you really can't determine whether one of your second tier candidates might jump to the top of your list during the process.
[Then...to absolutlely muddle and confound matters, comes the preposterous decision of retaining seven assistant coaches...which immediately handicaps a new coach's negotiations with the team.
This is a joke. And if an excellent candidate like Norm Chow is being looked over because he wants a clean slate and his own staff...imagine how stupid that is.]
Isn't Pittsburgh doing the exact same thing(retaining assistants)? To me it makes absolute sense to give the final choice the opportunity to retain current coaches (or not.) As far as we know the rumor about Chow moving down the list because of the assistants issue is just that, a rumor.
[Just look at what Atlanta did...they obviously had Bobby Petrino in mind and they expedited the process to get him...which shows that they have a good idea of the type of coach they want and it shows that they are smart enough to realize that if they don't hop on Petrino right away, they may run the risk of losing him to another NFL team.]
That's just conjecture on your part. Also, Atlanta paid thru the nose for Petrino IMO, and it remains to be seen whether he bucks the trend of college coaches failing in the NFL. See Steve Spurrier and numerous others.
[It would have been a refreshing change for the Cardinals to go into the process knowing exactly who they want to be the next head coach.]
It would have premature and would have short-circuited the process to have a preconceived notion of the coach without doing the due diligence. I, and many others, would have rightly lambasted them for jumping at the flavor of the week.
PFW is right...if a team calls a candidate back for a second interview, it should be to talk turkey and make the hire...not to have the candidate meet with the retained DC, whom, I'd be willing to bet, none of the candidates want as his own DC.
All of this just smacks of paralyzing indecision...an on-going rift in organizational procedure and philosophy...and a general sense that team management really doesn't know what they are doing.
None of what has transpired in this process inspires confidence in us the fans, does it?
How about waiting and see how the process ends instead of pre-judging the result because they didn't jump on your favorite? For all we know, the process is working as planned. Second interviews for important positions are common in business and as we've learned. the Dolphins are even going to third interviews. Nothing wrong with being thorough. We actually know that with Sherman, his wife did not have the opportunity to accompany him on the first visit.
PFT, not PFW, is proving to be an amateurish operation of dubish credibility. I'll take the kudos of respected ESPN reporter Len Pasqurelli, over the hacks at PFT anytime.