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According to NBC’s Cris Collingsworth, Washington Commanders coach Dan Quinn told Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank to hire Raheem Morris as head coach.
Quinn was an assistant coach at Hofstra when they had football, where he coached Morris, a defensive back. Morris was also an assistant under Quinn when he was the head coach of the Falcons himself.
Morris is a great person and a good assistant coach. It remains to be seen if he will be successful in his second go-around as a head coach. He previously was head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
But the reason I’m bringing this up here is simple. It’s because the Johnson Brothers, Hymie Elhai and all those involved in picking the Jets’ new head coach and GM, need to be very careful with people endorsing friends.
That happened when the Jets hired Adam Gase, with one reason being that Peyton Manning called and gave a ringing endorsement.
Look, Quinn did nothing wrong, and neither did Manning, but you gotta realize sometimes people might be trying to help friends, and not being 100 percent objective about the coach and his resume.
This goes in all industries, including football.
Woody, Christopher and Hymie need to learn from history and not let this happen again. Take endorsements from close confidantes of candidates with a grain of salt . . .
Talking to several people around the Bills, some were shocked at how dominant the Buffalo’s defense was against the Jets because they don’t think it’s a great unit.
As Tony Romo said in recapping the game, “The Bills dominated in the trenches.”
And this was the root of the Jets’ offensive problem on Sunday. It’s not that the Bills all of sudden became the ’85 Bears on defense, but that the Jets offensive line had a bad game.
Loosing your first and second-string tackles is a lot to overcome, and Max Mitchell, who did his best filling in, really is a right tackle.
On a fourth-and-one at the end of the Jets long drive in the first quarter, running back Braelon Allen was stopped for no gain when Bills defensive end Greg Rousseau beat Mitchell with an inside move and stopped the runner right as he got the ball.
There is a saying around the NFL – “Bad offensive lines don’t travel well.”
Now I don’t think the Jets have had a bad offensive line this entire season. In fact, when Olu Fashanu took over at left tackle, and Morgan Moses was in the line-up at right tackle (he’s been in and out), the line played well recently.
But the line in Buffalo was horrid. Moses got hurt again, and Carter Warren came in and struggled, like he did filling in for Moses early this season.
Look, Rodgers didn’t play a great game, but when you are major protection issues, in a loud raucous stadium like Highmark, with a creative defensive coach like Sean McDermott (with help from Bobby Babich), dialing up all kind of creative pressures to take advantage of a patchwork line, you are cooked on offense . . .
Sauce Gardner made news again on social media, which he recently claimed he was getting off of.
CBS Sports headline – “Jets’ Sauce Gardner tells potential Bengals free agent Tee Higgins not to come play for New York.”
Here we go again. A player thinking he’s a GM.
Player’s play, coaches coach, and GMs pick the players.
In good culture players farm their own land.
And considering Gardner’s pass interference penalty on the Bills’ first series, in the end zone, put the ball at the one, you would think he would low-key it after the game.
Things need to change at 1 Jets Drive in so many ways.
December 30, 2024
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