JUST A THOUGHT:
A question was given to Max, why the background checks weren't done earlier.  His EXCUSE was to do a background check on 24 candidates would be a lengthy process (how many months has it been already).  The candidates were then cut to 9.  And after another process, their are now 7 finalist.   So now they are doing background checks on the 7 finalist.   Hmmm.  I'm not the brightest person but,  if they find background discrepancies with any, or all of the 7 finalist,  the commission would have had the opportunity to eliminated these candidates long ago.  Meaning we could have been looking at totally different names as the finalist for the Chiefs position.