ting periods in the NFL: the window between the end of the regular season and the divisional round of the playoffs in which coaches for teams with a first-round bye can be interviewed.It was this window that led the Los Angeles Rams to ultimately hire Sean McVay as their head coach two years ago.The Rams spent the Thursday in this window interviewing McVay Jack Youngblood Jersey , then the Washington McVay Employers offensive coordinator, to replace Jeff Fisher. They then flew out to Boston to meet with the New England Patriots’ two coordinators: Offensive Coordinator Josh McDaniels and Defensive Coordinator Matt Patricia. With the Patriots on a first-round bye, it was key for the Rams to talk to any candidates in this window as they wouldn’t be able to otherwise until that team was out of the playoffs. Getting acquainted with these candidates was crucial to determine whether or not they were legitimately interested in them to wait out the playoffs for their candidacies at the potential expense of missing out on other candidates...like McVay. As is now the stuff of legend, the Rams got snowed in in Boston and were unable to meet with another candidate who was a coach on a first-round bye team: Kyle Shanahan. Then the Atlanta Falcons’ offensive coordinator, Shanahan was a hot commodity as a potential head coach. After the Rams were unable to meet up with him, they met with McVay for a second time before naming him their new head coach on January 12, 2017. Shanahan wasn’t available thereafter until the Falcons lost Super Bowl LI to the New England Patriots on February 5. He was named the San Francisco 49ers head coach the next day.So it’s worth considering how vital this period can be for teams looking for a new head coach. As of right now, there are eight such teams: the Arizona Cardinals, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Denver Broncos, Green Bay Packers, Miami Dolphins, New York Jets and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.The four teams with a first-round bye? The New Orleans Saints, Kansas City Chiefs, Patriots and Rams. So coaches from those teams are available to be interviewed this week before they’ll have to turn their attention back to their current employers for playoff game preparations next week. Candidates like McDaniels, Saints TE Coach Dan Campbell and Chiefs Offensive Coordinator Eric Bienemy all have meetings set up as do Rams TE Coach/Pass Game Coordinator/Co-OC Shane Waldron and QB Coach Zac Taylor.Waldron is set to talk to the Bengals’ representatives while Taylor is going to be interviewed by the Cardinals, Broncos and Bengals. And that’s just what’s been reported to this point. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn of other discussions before Friday and Saturday when the talks are expected to be held.So keep an eye on the NFL coaching rumors this week. If any other Rams coaches are going to be among the other hot candidates like former Rams and current Tennessee Titans OC Matt LaFleur, they’re going to pop up before we head into practices next Tuesday.The coaching carousel is speeding up... Build it and the Super Bowl will come.While that’s not exactly how the sites of the NFL’s championship extravaganza are determined, it sure doesn’t hurt to have a brand new Torry Holt Jersey , billion-dollar facility in your city.Including the 2004 game in Houston, the league will have staged nine Super Bowls in metropolitan areas with new stadiums in the past 15 years: Detroit, Phoenix, Dallas, Indianapolis, New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis and, now, Atlanta. Arizona and Houston actually have hosted twice, but obviously neither of those buildings was new the second time around.There’s nothing written on a game plan sheet guaranteeing such an award from the NFL, it’s more a nodding agreement it will happen. And it will once more in Los Angeles in 2022, and very likely in Las Vegas before the end of the next decade.“It really depends, but a world-class stadium is critical, and we are going through a run with Minnesota and Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta and other new buildings,” says Peter O’Reilly, the NFL’s senior vice president of events. “There are lots of factors that come into it in determining where and when we go and what is the right sequence. So that’s not necessarily a truism … though certainly there is a track record of a number of recent buildings that have been built that are incredible facilities.”Atlanta last hosted a Super Bowl in 2000, when it was hit with severe weather, including ice storms that nearly shut down the city. The NFL didn’t go back until this year, in part because the Georgia Dome no longer was a state-of-the-art venue Orlando Pace Jersey , and in part because of memories of 2000.Since Mercedes-Benz Stadium opened in 2017, Atlanta has been the site of several major sporting events, including the college football playoff. Atlanta United of MLS has set all sorts of attendance records in the building.Those successes matter in the Super Bowl race.“We do attend and we watch all those events that are coming into a venue,” says O’Reilly, who also oversees the staging of the draft that has become a traveling show and heads to Nashville this April and Las Vegas next year.“Part of the reason we have a policy in place that we don’t play a Super Bowl in the first year after a building opens is you understand and learn from the events and the games in there. One of the positives is a number of the key vendors who work on the Super Bowl work on other major events. Clearly, in this community it’s a really collaborative spirit.”Of course, hosting a Super Bowl is about a lot more than spirit. It’s about dollars, millions of dollars.Economic impact studies tend to show the value of the NFL’s big show ranges from $200 million to $500 million for a city. Plus, more than 100 million viewers across the country are seeing that city being showcased. Minnesota might not have been a winter vacation destination to many people before it was spotlighted for last year’s game.Naturally, Minneapolis wouldn’t have gotten the Super Bowl without having built an ultramodern indoor stadium. The only outdoor game in a cold weather city was in 2014 at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, and that was a given once the Giants and Jets agreed to foot most of the bill for the facility.With a wink and a nod, Detroit was destined for a Super Bowl once Ford Field was ready and the Lions moved back downtown from the suburbs. Indianapolis, which put on a sensational Super Bowl week, never would have been considered without Lucas Oil Stadium being constructed.“There’s nothing formal,” explains Marc Ganis, president of Sportscorp, a Chicago-based consulting firm, and an adviser to several team owners. “It is an understanding that if you build a new stadium and have the facilities for a Super Bowl and the community gets behind it, you will get a Super Bowl. Maybe you will only get one, like Indianapolis — as great a job as Indianapolis did Deacon Jones Jersey , it’s really on the edge of a community that can support a Super Bowl. They made up for it with the great community support.“It is not an issue of how well a franchise is run, either. It’s an issue of the market, the hotel rooms and the stadium. So we know that Miami (2020), Tampa (2021), New Orleans (2024), Texas, Arizona (2023), LA and Las Vegas will get them.”The process for securing a Super Bowl has changed. No longer do cities bid against each other — Ganis notes that a so-called loser in the bidding could be embarrassed despite putting up a very strong presentation, and that a lengthy series of ballots doesn’t look good for anyone.Now, O’Reilly and the owners’ Super Bowl committee go to each club seeking an expression of interest in hosting the game. Many cities know they have no chance, perhaps because of weather concerns at an outdoor stadium — it’s unlikely any such venue in the Northeast except MetLife would be considered — or lack of stadium size or insufficient infrastructure or hotel space.The committee identifies a city that fits best for a particular year and asks it for specifics for hosting.“We end up with optimizing the sequences, avoid a scenario where multiple cities are spending significant time and resources on a bid and ultimately they’re not rewarded,” O’Reilly says.Suggestions that the game could wind up in London seem farfetched, and the NFL certainly would need a franchise there before it could happen. Besides, Ganis says there will never be a shortage of U.S. locales interested in hosting.“I focus on the tremendous amount of new money coming into the community, and not just the week of the Super Bowl, but all the planning and the attention that takes place, and the money spent from outside (the venue) on that. Those things are almost impossible to put a price tag on, as is the visibility over a number of years focused on those two weeks in your city. It is almost always very positive.”