(01-22-2025, 10:57 AM)BallKey Wrote: I don't think we took forever to hire Doug by choice. We interviewed him in December because he was out of a job and was basically the only guy we could interview by the rules. I believe they put him on the back burner and moved on at that point.

Then we interviewed everyone else, including making major overtures with Leftwich, before crawling back to Doug because no one else wanted to work with Baalke.

That appears to have been a media creation if you factor in Leftwich's recent comments.  He was never offered the job and would have taken it in an instant with no qualifiers had it been according to him.  From all available information, the most logical conclusion is the Jags were just doing their due diligence (or being incompetent if you prefer) and not looking to rush a hire of anyone.

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