One thing that benefits coordinators is their teams exiting the playoffs early. Shouldn’t be that way…but it is. Teams don’t want to wait for some reason. I guess because everyone else will get their staffs filled out. But I remember Sean McDermott was hired by Buffalo coming off of his worst year as a DC. He was a hotter candidate the year before…but Carolina went to the Super Bowl that year and no one waited. Johnson is hot enough that someone will wait. But I wouldn’t be surprised, if there are enough openings, to see a coordinator who is coming off a down year get the call. It’s stupid to me…but it is what it is. Brandon Beane got a proposition on the table at Gm meetings a few years ago that teams would wait to hire coaches until after the conference finals or something…to stop penalizing the guys whose teams kept winning. It failed obviously
The Eagles wanted to hire Vic Fangio last year, even though he was consulting them in their run up to the Super Bowl the previous season. And he wanted that job instead of the Dolphins. But he didn't feel he could wait, because no one knew if Jonathan Gannon would get the Cardinals job. And then they found out he was talking to the Cardinals outside of the interview windows, so he always was getting that job, and two other teams were left unhappy.
49ers waited on Kyle Shanahan, and look at them.
The most important thing should be getting your guy. But everyone wants to get to work on the draft.