Please tell me what job it is that you can tell the owner of the company that you don’t care what they say, you are doing things your way and they can just accept it.
Also I really don’t get why people are making a big deal out of them interviewing McCown 3 times. No seriously interviewing someone costs you nothing but time and you never know what you may find in a candidate. I interviewed one guy for a job that he was in no way qualified for but after interviewing him I realized he was perfect for another, more important job.
If they had hired him I would agree there is a problem here but just interviewing to make a member of your staff, or more importantly the owner, happy is harmless. Hell for all we know they all said we know McCown isn’t the guy but damn if he doesn’t make for a great smokescreen and leaves the rest of the league wondering what we’re thinking.
Or as
@Mr teX said it might have been a case of:
Caserio: “Cal you know this isn’t going to fly and this guy is in no way ready to be a HC. We can’t even sell him to people as a bridge coach.”
McNair: “I know Nick but mother is really hung up on the guy, it’s a bit disturbing to be honest, and insists we hire him. Just keep stalling and let me ease her into the idea of not hiring him.”
Caserio: “Ok but you know we look like idiots for interviewing him. I don’t care but the media is crucifying us.”
McNair: “Yeah I know, if only there was a massive, national scandal about the hiring practices of the NFL that would give us an easy out for not hiring him. Ask Jack to pray about that.”
Edited to add a lot more on this.