SaintFanInATLHELL

I aksed this question in the 'You Fired' thread but I think it's important enough to get its own thread.

I know that the NFL has hiring rules, but is there any arrangement that can be made where a working coordinator can be hired mid-season?

The entire coaching staff (or at least for now the head coach and the two coordinators) needs to be fired today. They have created an embarrasment of this Saints (dis)organization. The front office and other can be dealt with later, but Haslett, McCarthy, and Venturi need to be put out of our collective misery now.

I know who I want to replace them: Romeo Crennel, the defensive assistant head coach of the Pats. He and Weiss have missed their show several times simply because the Pats keep going deep into the playoffs and winning it all.
He's the right guy with the right plan and access to the right people in the Pats organization.

I want the guy and I want him now!

So is it possible to ask permission to interview, and hire him on the spot. I know about the rules about not talking to coordinators while they are still in the playoffs. But does that apply to regular season too?

Waiting will cost us another year. The Pats will be in the SB, if not winning it, so it will be mid February before we can get Crennel in. That's a lost season of screwups from the team, and a last start into free agency and the draft for next year. Not to mention that it takes several months of planning to get the new offseason plan into place.

As I said I want the guy now.

So is it possible to hire a working coordination/assistant head coach mid season?

SFIAH