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The Leading Candidates:

• Klint Kubiak ( 38), OC, Seattle Seahawks: When I broke the story that Pete Carroll had been fired by the Raiders, Kubiak was at the top of the list.  He is an innovator whose personality dissects the game more than analyzes it.  His ability to see the game rivals that of some of the best, and many feel he would be a natural leader for a young gunslinger.

• Mike LaFleur (38),  OC, Los Angeles Rams:  the little brother of Green Bay Packers coach Matt, and the OC of the man many consider a generational coaching talent in Sean McVay’s burgeoning tree.  From a family of coaches, LaFleur benefits from being connected to McVay, but also carries an enormous amount of respect for his offensive prowess.  A warm and genuine relationship type leader, many see him as “Ideal” to lead a young QB through the NFL maturation process.

• Davis Webb (29) , OPGC, Denver Broncos:  A former NFL QB, he has done a masterful job with Bo Nix, and unlike LaFleur, already has developing a young QB on his resume.  Entering this cycle of coaching vacancies, Webb was seen as a young man in whom it wasn’t a matter of whether he would get a head job, but when.  Nix's continued progress with the Broncos, along with his outstanding first interview with the Raiders, propelled him up this list.

• Nate Scheelhaase (35), PGC, Los Angeles Rams:  While not the offensive juggernaut head coach like McVay, or the offensive coordinator like LaFleur, make no mistake that this Rams rising coach star takes no backseat to anyone.  Innovative, aggressive, and willing to use his offense as a weapon of attack, this out-of-the-box thinker, believed by many he heir apparent for the LA Rams OC job, should LaFleur bolt, may be one or two cycles away from landing his first head coaching job, but his mind has him squarely on this short list.  Unlike Kubiak and LaFleur, he wasn’t on this list to start, but the more the organization digs, the more interesting he looks.

There are multiple other candidates, and extremely qualified ones at that, who at the moment aren't for variious reasons higher on this list. The Raiders, are being smart, and talking to everyone, and we get into great detial in the aforementioned podcast above.

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