If you ask Las Vegas Raiders fans who they want as their next head coach, a lot of them will say Seattle Seahawks offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak.
However, things aren’t looking great for the Raiders on the Kubiak front as we hit the middle of the week.
While the Raiders have performed second interviews with multiple head coach candidates, which makes them finalists for Las Vegas’ job, Kubiak is not one of them and Las Vegas is running out of time to bring him in.
Once the Super Bowl bye week passes, the Raiders cannot interview Kubiak until after the Big Game, at which point they can also officially hire him.
The lack of a second interview for Kubiak thus far has former Raiders beat writer and “The Morning Tailgate” host Vincent Bonsignore believing that the Seahawks play-caller is currently off the table.
“Klint Kubiak has not come in for a second interview. Unless we hear at some point that he’s agreed to come in here for a second interview, I think for right now you almost have to remove him from consideration,” Bonsignore said.
Bonsignore goes on to add that “it sounds like” Kubiak is going to remain in Seattle, which is more bad news for the Raiders.
“It sounds like [Kubiak] is going to stay in Seattle and that’s a great decision for him and it will make him even more marketable.” Bonsignore said. “I feel like it’s a two-horse race at this point and my own opinion on this is that one is an extremely easy and positive sell in Davis Webb with the fan base and I think the fans get behind him.”
There is still a glimmer of hope for Kubiak to interview this week, and that comes from The Athletic’s Dianna Russini, who reported the Raiders are going to interview another candidate this week, although she didn’t say who.
But if that isn’t Kubiak, it’s obviously great news for the Seahawks, who are now unlikely to have to replace one of the better offensive coordinators in the NFL.
The four candidates the Raiders have brought in for second interviews are Brian Daboll, Joe Brady, Davis Webb and Ejiro Evero.
However, Daboll has since signed on to be the Tennessee Titans‘ offensive coordinator, and Brady was promoted to head coach in Buffalo.
Knowing that, it looks like Webb and Evero are the favorites to land the job based on their receiving a second interview.
