There’s a lot still to discuss.
It promises to be an event never to be forgotten around here.
Yet while this is a gut-wrenching, emotionally taxing moment, there’s still business to attend to.
Sentimentality is to be expected at a time like this.
But it can’t get in the way of the task at hand.
Aragorn became their new leader.
And told the group they had to get up and get out of there immediately.
There was no time to mourn because “By nightfall these hills will be swarming with Orcs.”
Despite the shock and heartache they were suffering, there was still a quest to be fulfilled.
And the Patriots have a ring-related quest that is every bit as important as the fate of Middle Earth.
The hills are going to be swarming with Orcs from the other 31 NFL teams by nightfall.
So we have to get up and keep moving.
And I have no doubt it’s out there because Jim Harbaugh put it there.
I get that he’s a white hot commodity at the moment.
And certainpeople in management positions around herewould love nothing more.
I just don’t see it.
The Krafts have made two coaching hires in 30 years.
One was Pete Carroll, whom they had no connection with.
It didn’t work out.
The other was someone Kraft the Elder became close to when he was an assistant here in the mid-90s.
That one really super-duper did work out.
Familiarity matters in this very much family business they’re running.
At least he was trending that way.
Which is to say, everywhere except in the Miami owners' box.
That suit, which is also against the NFL, is still being litigated.
Most notably, the Commissioner.
Flores will get another chance to be head coach in this league.
He’s earning it Minnesota as we speak.
I just doubt it’ll be here as long as he’s suing Ginger Satan.
At this time last year, Mayo was all set to take interviews for other head coach openings.
Well now the king has been overthrown.
We’ll soon see.
But Mayo is here, he’s available, and the job is open.
I dread the tabloids running with the “KRAFT MAYO” puns.
But this seems like the most likely outcome.
His chances: 45%
I think that adds up to 100%.
I don’t know how odds work.
And maybe I should’ve left a percent or two for “Other.”
I just rank them according to what my gut tells me.
