The Final Five

These are the finalists for the Rams' head coaching job, per "Around The Horns" at stltoday.com:
Consider this the final "coaches' poll" as well:

1. Leslie Frazier. Interviews Tuesday.

2. Rex Ryan. Interviewed yesterday.

3. Steve Spagnuolo. Interviews Thursday.

4. Supposed "mystery candidate" Jason Garrett, who has been mentioned already in the Rams' HC search, leaving me with no blooming idea why "NFL sources" ever said there was a "mystery" candidate in the first place, as came out earlier today. Interviews Wednesday.

5. Jim Haslett. Already interviewed.

I have no idea what happened with Winston Moss, Todd Bowles or Ray Sherman, particularly Moss, who was said to have been up for a second interview.

To go on the record, then, said the guy who wanted Ron Rivera in 2006 and wanted to fire Dick Vermeil in 1999 in favor of Ray Rhodes because I wanted to hire Rhodes in 1997 in the first place, of these candidates, I like Leslie Frazier the best. My first choice out of the whole football world would have been Marty Schottenheimer, but he's apparently staying retired.

And I still expect the Rams to end up with Haslett as their head coach out of all this, with Frazier going to Detroit, Ryan to the Jets, and Spagnuolo back to his drawing board to wonder how he let the Eggles convert 50% of their third downs yesterday and how his team couldn't sack Donovan McNabb even once.