EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. The New York Giants interviewed Chicago Bears offensive coordinator Adam Gase for their head coaching job, the fourth person considered for Tom Coughlin’s former job.
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The Miami Dolphins also met with Gase on Thursday and brought him in for a second interview today, Saturday.
The Dolphins interviewed several candidates, including former National Football League head coaches Mike Smith, Mike Shanahan and Doug Marrone, but Gase was the first to get the call back.
Gase becomes the NFL’s youngest head coach, but he has 16 years of experience at the college and National Football League levels, starting as a defensive graduate assistant at LSU under then-coach Nick Saban in 2000.
With Gase potentially signing in Miami, the Eagles just lost one of their head coaching candidates.
The most famous quarterback who worked with Gase was Peyton Manning, who set NFL single-season records in 2013 with 55 touchdown passes and 5,477 passing yards in Gase’s first year as offensive coordinator for the Denver Broncos.
Gase interviewed with the Eagles on Tuesday. “Last year I talked to a couple teams on the behalf of him that reached out to me”. Cutler produced a career-high passer rating of 92.3 despite losing a number of his key weapons to injuries.
Before his one season in Chicago, Gase spent six seasons with the Broncos, two each as wide receivers coach, quarterbacks coach and finally offensive coordinator. In 2013, Gase spurned the Cleveland Browns for an interview, and that turned out to be a great piece of judgment on his part because Mike Pettine has already been fired along with GM Ray Farmer in Cleveland.
Campbell, who interviewed Friday, led the Dolphins to five wins in the final 12 games after Joe Philbin was sacked. The team finished the season ranked 26th in total offense.
If the Dolphins can entice Gase with the prospect of working in a warm-weather city with quarterback Ryan Tannehill, it could open up another possibility for the Browns.
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Once they find their coach, the Browns will turn their attention to finding a new GM, who will be in charge of acquiring talent but will defer control of the 53-man roster to Brown.
