I don't have any particular problem with Leftwich other than his lack of head coaching experience.  Therefore, if I was doing the hiring, the interview would be really important.  What is his plan?  Who would be his assistants?  And so on. 

Of course, the problem with deferring to the judgment of the man doing the hiring is that Shad Khan has not made a good hire yet.  He's got a big fat goose-egg for all of his hires as owner.

With the enormous number of empty seats that I saw at the last game, and the truly incredible number of unsold seats for the Indy game, that I see from looking at Ticketmaster, I would not be surprised if at some point the NFL itself steps in and offers to help with hiring the next head coach.  Because, based on the number of unsold seats for the next game (and I mean it is a huge number, you can go look for yourself), this entire franchise is failing and it's all due to lack of success on the field. 

Last game, I was sitting in the West stands, looking across at the East stands, and I swear 90% of the seats in the East stands were empty.  I've never seen it that bad before.  Not even in preseason.

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