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When the Jets are done with their GM and coach interviews, they might set an unofficial NFL record for most GM and coach interviews in NFL history.
I don’t think we’ve ever seen an interview process as extensive as the one the Jets are currently conducting.
They have officially interviewed 13 GM candidates and eight head coaching candidates with several more to come.
Aside from due diligence, there is another reason they are interviewing so many candidates.
According to a league source, the Jets are doing this to get as many takes as possible from people outside the building about their team.
It’s a really smart approach.
It’s like hiring a having a bunch of industry experts to analyze your business and provide you an extensive report on how you can improve/tweak your business, and the reports are for free.
Remember, these candidates are trying to impress the Jets brass, so they are giving their best takes on what is wrong and right with the Jets football operation.
The more interviews you do, the more insight you get.
And that is why the Jets are interviewing SO many GM and head coaching candidates, according to the league source . . .
If Aaron Glenn is the best candidate for the job hire him, but I’m so tired of some fans and reporters pushing him for nostalgic reasons.
Who cares that he played for the team from 1994 to 2001? It’s irrelevant. It should have nothing to do with their decision if they are doing a serious search.
And for those people pushing Glenn because he played for the Jets, keep in mind, he retired as a Houston Texan, signing a one-day contract on July 28, 2010. He played eight years with the Jets and three with the Texans. He also had stints with Jacksonville, New Orleans and Dallas.
So for those into the nostalgia angle here, pipe down.
If Glenn is the best candidate for the job based on his coaching acumen, hire him, but the fact that he was a first-round pick of the team and played the first eight years of his career with them is a nothing burger.
After 14 straight years out of the playoffs, tied for the current high in pro sports with the Buffalo Sabres, this isn’t the time to care about whether coaching candidates spent time with the team in the past.
That would be amateurish to consider that a relevant factor . . .
SNY’s Connor Hughes, who has emerged as the top Jets insider based on the sheer volume of his scoops, had another big one on Sunday.
“Rex Ryan I heard is completely out,” Hughes reported. “That is not gonna happen with the Jets.”
Ryan, the former Jets head coach, interviewed for the job earlier last week.
Ryan tried to present himself as a candidate who could bring law and order to the Jets and end the “country club.”
While that is the approach the Jets need, some wondered if Rex was truly that kind of coach.
Rex is a good motivator and defensive mind, but some consider him more of a player’s coach than a disciplinarian who holds everybody accountable.
Last time we saw him as a head coach, with the Buffalo Bills, you saw a team that didn’t seem very disciplined.
Perhaps he learned from that experience, but while he has many positive attributes as a coach, he just doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who will go to a team, like a new sheriff in town, and clean up their accountability and discipline issues.
But now that is a moot point after Hughes’ major announcement . . .
January 13, 2025
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