With Cowboys in mix, Jets’ head coaching vacancy is even less desirable

On the NFL coaching carousel, when one door closed, another opened. 

One day after the Patriots hired Mike Vrabel, the Cowboys joined the five other teams still searching for a new head coach by parting ways with Mike McCarthy more than a week into the interview process for top candidates. 

Will Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn — the only candidate to be interviewed by all of the Jets, Saints, Raiders, Jaguars and Bears — eventually get a sixth interview request from the Cowboys? 

Will Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson — who is being selective in taking interviews — have a new attractive option to consider? 

Could McCarthy — who interviewed with the Jets in 2019 before Adam Gase was hired and is on the Saints’ and Bears’ radar — quickly pivot elsewhere before the Cowboys can replace him? 

Here is how the NFL’s six vacancies compare in four major categories. On the six-point scale, the higher the score, the better.