{"id":682396,"date":"2026-01-16T18:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/682396\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T18:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:34:14","slug":"who-do-fans-want-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/682396\/","title":{"rendered":"Who do fans want as head coach?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated Jan. 16, 2026, 12:35 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/atlanta-falcons\/323\" data-autotag=\"55e278ca-caf0-429b-8b4a-caeb78bff5ff\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Atlanta Falcons<\/a> have completed eight interviews for their head coaching vacancy, but at this point, there doesn&#8217;t appear to be a clear favorite. Falcons president of football Matt Ryan has stepped in to help guide the team in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">While there have been <a href=\"http:\/\/thefalconswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/falcons\/2026\/01\/09\/falcons-head-coach-gm\/88108300007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rumors<\/a> that the team is leaning towards former <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cleveland-browns\/329\" data-autotag=\"9cb205d1-d46a-4c2c-a80a-90061986bc20\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Cleveland Browns<\/a> head coach Kevin Stefanski, it&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s guess at this point. Aside from Stefanski, the Falcons have met with Mike McDaniel, Klint Kubiak, Anthony Weaver, Aden Durde and Jeff Hafley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">But who do the fans want the team to hire as its next head coach? We looked to social media to get an idea of where Falcons fans are leaning.<\/p>\n<p>NFL fans weigh in on Falcons&#8217; coaching search<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">-Follow the Falcons head coach and GM search with our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thefalconswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/falcons\/2026\/01\/09\/falcons-head-coach-gm\/88108300007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">interview tracker<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:18|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><a class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__lp gnt_em_gl gnt_em__el\" href=\"http:\/\/thefalconswire.usatoday.com\/picture-gallery\/sports\/nfl\/falcons\/2026\/01\/09\/falcons-2026-nfl-free-agent-list-kyle-pitts\/88101605007\/\" data-t-l=\"\u2691g:l|l|c|view gallery:inline promo\" aria-label=\"View Gallery - Falcons 2026 NFL offseason: List of players set to become free agents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768588454_933_87907872007-2251485629.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Jan. 16, 2026, 12:35 p.m. ET The Atlanta Falcons have completed eight interviews for their head coaching&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[95878,223,254,2554,224,7,6,96607,96608,95882,96609,95957,96503,95896,95888,95895,95897,95899,95906,95884,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-682396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-atlanta-falcons","11":"tag-atlantafalcons","12":"tag-falcons","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflfalcons","16":"tag-sstsnfalcons","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagatlanta-falcons","19":"tag-tagcleveland-browns","20":"tag-tagmatt-ryan","21":"tag-tagnational-sports","22":"tag-tagnfl","23":"tag-tagnfl-hub","24":"tag-tagoverall-negative","25":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","26":"tag-tagoverall-positive","27":"tag-tagsports-coaching-training","28":"tag-tagsports-news","29":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115906220110329750","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}