It would fit in our recent trend of hiring guys named Matt to be our HC

Personally, I don’t like any of the options you mentioned either than Bill or Bowles, and I don’t think either of those happens. Staley’s defense has been an absolute failure with the Chargers, del Rio’s defense has hardly worked ever since he took the Raiders HC job, and Rivera seems out of touch with the way the game has been changing (which is pretty evident when you watch his press conferences). I think our best bet really is to take an assistant from a defense that has been succeeding for multiple years.

It’s because picking a QB isn’t an exact science. Why weren’t scouts and GMs blown away on Mahomes, Allen, Lamar, or Herbert? We’ve seen time and time again that it is very difficult to project how a QB will turn out. Even one of the best GMs in the league, John Lynch, had a huge miss in evaluating a QB prospect, Trey Lance. But if you watched Stroud’s college tape and heard what scouts and analysts were saying, it’s easy to see how you wouldn’t be blown away with him as a prospect. A lot of times his elite WRs at Ohio St would get wide open and he had a difficult time dealing with pressure and off-script plays. Basically, he was labeled a system-dependent QB.