New York Giants offensive coordinator/assistant head coach Mike Kafka has been selected to participate in the NFL’s upcoming coaching accelerator program, which aims to help assistant coaches prepare for a potential future as head coaches.
He was reportedly a finalist for the Arizona opening, which ultimately went to Jonathan Gannon two years ago, and for the Seattle Seahawks position, which went to Mike Macdonald this past off-season. As assistant head coach, Kafka told reporters that head coach Brian Daboll has involved him in several off-season aspects, such as the interview process that went on earlier in the year when the team was assigned new assistant coaches and staff members.
“Being a part of that, how the inner workings of those decisions happen. And then sitting in on building out this off-season. So, sitting in on the planning, listening to our health department work through our injured guys and their progress and how they are going to build that into our off-season program—that’s been cool to be a part of really the backbone on how we're going to do this thing.