New Orleans snow will delay Saints’ head-coaching interviews

The New Orleans Saints are delaying this week’s round of in-person head-coaching interviews due to the snow expected to hit the area on Tuesday. Tom Pelissero of the NFL Network said the interviews set for Tuesday and Wednesday will be rescheduled.

“Mike Kafka was supposed to be today, with Aaron Glenn and Anthony Weaver scheduled for Wednesday; interviews are now expected to resume later in the week,” Pelissero wrote on X.

Along with Kafka, Glenn and Weaver, the Saints will interview former Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy, and his interview is scheduled for later this week. The Saints are looking for a new head coach after firing Dennis Allen midway through the 2024 season. Darren Rizzi took over as the interim head coach, and the Saints went 3-5 in their last eight games.

Last week, Saints general manager Mickey Loomis explained why the Saints head coaching job is one of the best jobs in the NFL. “We’ve got the best professional sports league in the world, and there’s 32 jobs, and a lot of guys want to be head coach, so every job is attractive,” Loomis said, per the Saints’ official website. “They just are, including ours.”

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“We have a lot of things to offer – a great city, great fan base, we have great ownership, we have had great stability in our building for a long, long time. And I think we’re viewed that way.”

Loomis also talked about the positives he saw from the Saints in 2024 despite finishing the season with a 5-12 record. “I’m positive, I’m glass-half-full at all times,” he said. “I see a lot of things – even in a 5-12 season – I see a lot of things that were positive, that we can build on. So I’m on the side of, man, this thing can go the other direction pretty quickly.

“I think I’m still pretty patient. I understand that the results are the results, and you can’t ignore the results. But you also have to look beyond the results sometimes and understand the reasons behind the symptoms. And some are in our control, some aren’t.”

The snow in New Orleans is the first for the city in more than 15 years. This comes as New Orleans gets ready to host Super Bowl LIX which will kick off at Caesars Superdome on Feb. 9.