The Raiders have a second interview scheduled with Klint Kubiak for Saturday and the popular opinion right now is that Kubiak is the front runner to get the job.
Davis Webb took his name out of contention for the Raiders’ job on Thursday and there’s a good chance he made that decision understanding Kubiak is the candidate the Raiders are targeting.
As of Friday afternoon, it looks like the job in Vegas is Kubiak’s to lose, and flagship radio host ‘JT the Brick’ made a strong statement on his candidacy on Wednesday. Reading between the lines a little, it sounds like the Raiders are about as committed to Kubiak as they can be going into his second interview.
“I’ve interviewed a bunch of people over the last week or two. Everybody believes [Kubiak] is the guy. It’s his offer to accept or deny,” JT said on his Raider Nation Radio show on Thursday.
“Nobody knows what he’s going to do because he’s embedded in preparation for the Super Bowl, but he’s having his second interview and someone told me off the record that he doesn’t even need a second interview. He’s one of the only candidates that you really don’t need a second interview with. He had an interview. If you like him, you can hire him.”
“You don’t need a second interview. And we all think that everybody needs a second interview. No, not him. He doesn’t need a second interview. There’s nothing that they’re going to look at in the second interview that’s going to say ‘No, man, we were thinking you as our number one choice, and now you’re out.’ I would doubt that very much. I think he’s going to be fine, but he’s going to give the Raiders a second interview that I’ve been made aware of from inside the building,” JT continued.
“If he nails it and he does a great job, and maybe this interview is going to be even more in-depth with Tom Brady, because when Tom Brady is calling all these Seahawk games, he really can’t sit down one-on-one with Kubiak.”
It has been rumored that Kubiak might want clarification on how the power structure is going to work with Brady in the building, so maybe that dynamic is something the sides want to get together and discuss in person.
The Raiders have had access to Kubiak’s agent all week, so the sides should know enough about each other on the contract end if they want to get a deal done. The biggest concern on the Raiders’ end of a potential agreement might be that Kubiak could be talked into returning to Seattle between now and the day after the Super Bowl.
Kubiak can’t officially accept a head coaching job until after the Super Bowl.
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