Boiling Coach Syndrome

Brad Stevens was hired today to coach the Boston Celtics. He comes from a remarkably successful six-year run at Butler. The first video I saw of this had J.A. Adande analyzing the move. He talked about the hiring process in general for a few sentences and then pulled the dreaded "saw the opportunity ... and jumped at it" soundbite.
I find this 'bite very misleading. We see and hear it a lot, and it's always implied to me that someone was called and offered something and before the caller could finish the sentence, they replied, "Yeah, I'm in." We do get the occasional, "wanted-guy did his research and discussed the freedoms/responsibilities/franchise direction/etc." before taking the job, but "jumped at it" is, to me, rather typical media-speak on the side of extremism. I'm not calling them out or complaining about this one since it's well down the list of extremist media-speak, but "took it" seems much more apt to the scenario barring extended information. There was bound to be a couple days of talking with the fam and breaking it down and coming up with follow-up questions to be answered and all that. But "jumped" just seems to me to be too active of a term for this process.
Of course, in his first news conference, Mr. Stevens may drop the "this was my dream job, I rejected Michigan, Illinois, Duke, Moscow Dynamo, Ajax, ManU, the All-Blacks, Vikings, D-backs and the Bad News Bears Celebrity Traveling Nostalgia Giggety for a reason. I was waiting for They'll-never-get-a-peek-into-my-head Danny to drop a dime and I'd be on the next bus."
It also may be that the guys in line for this type of job have a little card in their wallet that they can pull out and check their compiled info and get the process over with in a few ticks. But I don't understand that type of person anyway, so I'll ignore that possibility.