Paul Domowitch:

One other name has sort of surfaced in the Eagles’ coaching search: Jon Gruden.

Gruden is doing his biennial return-to-coaching tire-kicking. Whether he’s serious this time or just needs his ego massaged still is unclear.

But a league source told the Daily News that he has informed Lurie, through an intermediary, that he is interested in the Eagles’ head-coaching job.

The source said that while Lurie likes and respects Gruden, who was the Eagles’ offensive coordinator in 1997-98, he has reservations about the ESPN Monday Night Football analyst’s ability/willingness to play nice with Roseman, who has returned to a seat of personnel power now that Chip Kelly is gone.

Well would you look at that. Me, four days ago:

Similarly, I got an interesting Gruden phone call from one of the same sources who, back in October, first mentioned that Kelly and Lurie had basically both had enough of each other. They are once-removed from both the organization and Gruden, but the unsolicited nature of the exchange was certainly interesting. If I were the sort of anonymous rumor mongering shit slinger present across Twitter, I might assign this 2 laces out of 5– not nothing, but hardly verifiable at the moment.

Additionally, NFL.com podcaster Dave Dameshek tweeted the other day that Gruden was making himself available. But if Domo’s source is to be believed, Lurie will look the other way because he is looking for a yes man to make small man Howie Roseman feel good about himself.

UPDATE: “Yes, I’m interested, even though I probably won’t get it and will look like a schmuck, including to my employer who pays me $7 million per year.”

Pic is from our friends at Lincoln Lending in Tampa– say “Crossing Broad”, get fee waived