Giants’ coordinators in demand: Colts ask to interview Mike Kafka, Wink Martindale

While you win, different groups desire a piece of what you could have happening. Such is the case for the New York Giants nowadays. Groups with head-coaching vacancies are circling round Giants’ offensive coordinator Mike Kafka and defensive coordinator Wink Martindale.

The Indianapolis Colts have formally requested interviews with each coordinators. Tom Pelissero was first with the Kafka news, and Adam Schefter reported the Martindale news.

Three groups have now requested permission to talk with Kafka. The Carolina Panthers and Houston Texans requested interviews final week. The Colts are the primary staff on this hiring cycle to ask for permission to talk to Martindale.

In a submit right here at Large Blue View when the common season ended, I wrote that “I can’t assist however consider Indianapolis as a spot that would — greater than the rest — profit from an actual chief and stable presence on the high of their group. Martindale could be that man.”

Neither Kafka nor Martindale has ever been an NFL head coach.

Giants head coach Brian Daboll mentioned Monday that Kafka won’t entertain interviews till a minimum of after Saturday’s Divisional Spherical playoff sport in opposition to the Philadelphia Eagles. The Martindale information broke after Daboll’s Monday media availability, and the Giants have since confirmed that can even be the case for Martindale.

“All the things’s centered on Philadelphia,” Daboll mentioned. “There received’t be any interviews main as much as this sport.”