Jacksons predicts who the Bears, Cowboys, Jaguars, Jets, Raiders, and Saints will hire as their next head coach. Read the offseason predictions and analysis.

Tom Brady may have taken his talents from the booth to the field, but he still has influence in what goes on across the NFL landscape. And one team he specifically has some hold on is the Las Vegas Raiders. Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated recently highlighted the influence that the former New England Patriots signal-caller wields.

The Las Vegas Raiders will request to interview New York Giants assistant general manager Brandon Brown for the team's general manager vacancy.

The Raiders are reportedly not interested in him. Raiders’ star Maxx Crosby would be cool if Sanders was his coach, though, and has a long relationship with him. January 16 6:17 a.m.: The Raiders are interviewing Vance Joseph Thursday and Robert Saleh on Friday for the head-coaching job.

For some of those teams, that will involve finding new head coaches ... on his private plane to Las Vegas. There’s currently no other destination that fits. Johnson has interviewed with the Raiders, Bears, Jaguars, and Patriots. The alignment he wants ...

Are the Patriots over-extending themselves in their pursuit of Mike Vrabel? Albert Breer and Phil Perry address the power dynamics at play.

Johnson has emerged as the runaway favorite to land the Las Vegas gig with NFL Network Ian Rapoport reporting earlier this week that, “there are a lot of people who, frankly, think he is getting it.”

The New England Patriots officially have their new head coach, as they hired Mike Vrabel to come in and take things over on Sunday morning. But before he accepted his new job, the former star linebacker shared a message with his old teammate, Tom Brady, about the Las Vegas Raiders head coach opening.

Mike Vrabel got the call from the Patriots that the team was trading him to the Kansas City Chiefs. Eight years of service in New England, with three titles, and the linebacker was out of there a year too early perhaps rather than a year too late like so many others who played for that team under Bill Belichick.

Along with the usual AFC West slate, the Silver and Black will face the AFC South and NFC East, plus the fourth-place finishers in the AFC North, NFC North and AFC East.