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Havenstein still has Thursday and Friday to test out his injured ankle but it would have been nice to see him participate in a limited capacity on Wednesday. Former starter/backup T Joe Noteboom (ankle) did resume practicing in a limited capacity though, which bodes positively for his Week 12 availability.

“There is a feeling that by handing that responsibility back to Mike Kafka, the offensive coordinator, Daboll would be in a better position to manage the entire team, sitting in on defensive meetings and expanding his focus to make sure small details do not fall through the cracks,” Schwartz writes. Of course, Kafka is up for the Saints head coaching vacancy still, so that may be a road block for this plan. The journey of “Who is calling plays for the Giants?” is a long one under Daboll, much too long to go over in a blurb. But it’s pretty clear that the Giants were a better offense when Kafka called plays in 2022 than they were in 2024 when Daboll did. Perhaps this is something to look out for if the Saints hand their job to Kellen Moore or Mike McCarthy.

Per Rapoport, Lewis has had several requests for interviews but this is the first one he’s actually taken. Lewis interviewed for the Buccaneers offensive coordinator position in 2024, but has not been mentioned as a candidate for the role this offseason. Lewis, a former NFL backup quarterback who started five games with the Bills in 2013 and one for the Browns in 2012, came aboard in Tampa as an offensive assistant with Bruce Arians. The Duke grad also has worked as an offensive analyst for UCLA.

This was always the way the reports about Kingsbury seemed to be leaning, and he essentially decided against interviewing with the Saints and Bears during Washington’s playoff run. Kingsbury’s has revitalized his career prospects with Jayden Daniels and seems likely to be a hot coaching candidate in 2026. Of course, we would have said the same thing in Bobby Slowik’s blurb in 2025, so this isn’t without risk for Kingsbury. But ultimately, as Adam Schefter put it when asked about Kingsbury a week ago, it was very obvious that he was “not rushing to become a head coach again.”

McLaurin is entering the final year of a three-year extension signed in 2022. Entering his age-30 season in 2025, there’s no doubting McLaurin’s credentials on the field even as he creeps closer to the inevitable decline phase. An extension could get McLaurin’s guaranteed cash flow going again and lower his $25.25 million cap figure for 2025. It seems like as obvious place as any to start as the Commanders look to keep last year’s momentum going with what Over The Cap has as $87 million in cap space lined up for this offseason.

The flimsy way this was worded makes us think that Graham may not be a first choice for the Raiders, who have also interviewed in-house defensive line coach Rob Leonard and requested permission to speak to Seattle defensive backs coach Karl Scott for the vacancy. Graham has also been interviewed for the Jaguars defensive coordinator gig and was reportedly a finalist for the Bengals defensive coordinator job.

Bevell, of course, was Pete Carroll’s offensive coordinator in Seattle from 2011-2017, sharing in the franchise’s multiple Super Bowl berths. He’s coached Dolphins quarterbacks for the past three years after washing out with the Lions in 2020 and Jaguars in 2021 at offensive coordinator. Bevell would not exactly be an inspiring hire for fantasy purposes, but he has plenty of NFL experience and can help get things up to a tenable level for the Raiders on the offensive side of the ball before they start thinking about optimizing everything.

The specific question and answer about trading Garrett was: “if someone sees you at dinner tonight and says, ‘we’ll give you two ones for Miles do you say I’m not interested?’” to which Berry said “Correct, you can put that on the record.” Berry also indicated a willingness to talk extension with Cleveland’s star pass rusher, saying “I think you can assume that we do anticipate at some point doing a third contract with Myles. We want him to retire here.” It’s not much of a surprise as the Browns have never operated as sellers at any point during Berry’s tenure and Garrett just put together a season as good as any edge player in the NFL, but there were some rumblings about the Browns considering a trade for Garrett in December. It does not look like that will come to pass.

The Jaguars already interviewed Graham twice for their head-coaching vacancy, so we assume they are on pretty familiar terms at this point. Graham was a finalist for Cincinnati’s defensive coordinator job and interviewed for the Chargers and Seahawks head coaching jobs last offseason. With Pete Carroll now in charge in Vegas, Graham is more or less a free agent. He would be a quality addition to a Jags defense that has had real holes to hide for a few years now.

Pleasant interviewed with the Bears earlier this offseason and has rebounded nicely after being let go by the Lions in the middle of the 2022 season. With Liam Coen’s Rams roots, it does make some sense that he’d be interested in the current Rams assistant head coach for Jacksonville’s defensive coordinator opening. Pleasant has also worked with the Packers and at Michigan in a coaching career that started in 2010.

It checks the main boxes of the recent Jerry Jones administration: We know who he is (Eberflus coached Cowboys linebackers before becoming Indianapolis’ defensive coordinator) and he won’t be expensive. Eberflus’ zone-centric scheme will probably demand better cover linebackers than Eric Kendricks. Chicago’s defense came across as very static last season before Eberflus was fired. That doesn’t mean Eberflus runs a bad scheme, but it is going to take a major talent infusion for Dallas to play as well as Chicago did last season.