Houston Texans chairman and CEO Cal McNair alluded to the interview process the club has to go through in order to find their sixth full-time coach in team history.
“The league has done a great deal of work to establish an equitable and inclusive head coach hiring process, which we fully support,” McNair said. “The structured process allows us to begin the head coaching interviews virtually this week, and we can begin interviewing candidates in person after the wild-card games.”
McNair noted there was a “strong list of potential head coach candidates,” and that he and general manager Nick Caserio would be “excited to work with them.”
Here is the timeline the Texans have to work with as mandated by the league when they request interviews with coaching candidates.
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Beginning at 8:00 a.m. (local time of the employer club) on the thir dday following the conclusion of the Employer Club’s regular season game (Tuesday for Saturday games/Wednesday for Sunday games), virtual interviews for open Head Coach positions can be conducted with coaches whose clubs are not participates in the postseason or whose teams have Wild Card byes.
The wild-card games are Jan. 14-16.
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“Beginning at 8:00 a.m., (local time of the employer club) on the Tuesday following Wild Card games through the conclusion of Divisional games on January 22, in-person and/or virtual interviews may be conducted with head coach candidates whose teams played on Wild Card Monday.”
The divisional round is Jan. 21-22.
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“Beginning at 8:00 a.m., (local time of the employer club) on the Wednesday following Wild Card games through the conclusion of Divisional games on January 22, in-person and/or virtual interviews may be conducted with head coach candidates whose teams played on Wild Card Monday.”
The divisional round is Jan. 21-22.
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“In-person and/or virtual interviews with coaches whose teams own a Wild Card game may begin for coordinator positions through January 28, the Saturday prior to Conference Championship games. A request for a coordinator position must be approved if it is not a “shared” position, and/or if the requesting club does not have an assistant head coach in charge fo the side fo the ball of the coordinator position (i.e.,…
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