Today the Chicago Bears announced that they interviewed Monti Ossenfort for the their open general manager position. While not previously mentioned as a candidate for Chicago, Ossenfort has interviewed with the Giants and will interview with the Vikings tomorrow.
Ossenfort has been the director of player personnel in Tennessee for the past two years. Prior to the Titans, he spent 17 seasons in the Patriots’ organization, acting as the director of college scouting in his last six years in New England.
As far as we’ve seen, Ossenfort is the fifth candidate to interview for the open general manager position and Chicago has several other targets who have yet to interview. Follow the updates on all three open general manager positions on our 2022 NFL General Manager Search Tracker.
Apparently, they’re already interviewing head coach candidates. I hope they’re smart enough (big if) to hire a GM before a head coach. What high level GM candidate would want that big of a decision made before he even starts the job?
My guess is, they are asking GM candidates to have a list of head coaches they would be willing to hire. At least if they were competent, that is what they would be doing.
If they have some sort of consensus from top three candidates, they conceivably could make coach hire first, because they have the input from next GM.
Frankly, that should be part of the interview process.
On the face of it, I agree with most of what you said. I just think McCaskey and Phillips have a jaw dropping history of ineptitude that hardly inspires confidence. And “competence” feels like a reach to me.