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Mobile – Adam Gase is off to a strong start . . .
. . . assembling his staff.
He has added Gregg Williams as defensive coordinator and is retaining special team’s coach Boyer.
Those are two slam dunks right there.
And Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio announced that the Jets have hired Frank Pollack as offensive line coach. This guy is rock solid.
He was the offensive line coach from 2015-17 in Dallas and did a nice job there, as he did with Cincinnati this season.
After a seven-year career as a guard and tackle in the NFL after a standout career at Northern Arizona, he’s been coaching offensive linemen on the college and NFL level since 2005. He knows what he’s doing.
Adam Gase continues to take his time compiling a staff, something he said he learned from his first head coaching job in Miami, where he felt he rushed putting together a staff because that is what he thought you are supposed to do.
“Over three years, you’re going to have mistakes that you make, you start creating mental notes and a list from year to year,” said Gase. “It really started in the first part of this process, putting a coaching staff together. First thing I learned the first go around is don’t get impatient. You don’t have to rush into that and get this guy hired. Go through your process. If you have to interview guys, you have to interview guys. That is just a start of many things I learned in that first go-around. It’s a long list.”
Aside from Williams, Boyer and Pollack being very good coaches, something else that needs to be noted is none of these guys are Gase’s friends.
The Jets previous two head coaches had a tendency to hire friends. So far, Gase has stayed away from this.
You need to hire the best staff possible, not the best friends possible . . .
One other thing I want to get into today is who the Jets will be looking at down here at the Senior Bowl. I’m in Mobile and will have news and notes from here throughout the week.
I saw a tabloid headline today – “Jets will eye these six NFL draft prospects during Senior Bowl week.”
I didn’t click on the story. I won’t fall into the trap.
But the premise is flawed. The North and South have rosters have 60-70 players on each roster. The Jets will be looking at all the players.
It would be a mistake to to just have your “eyes” on six guys. That wouldn’t very good scouting.
And even if they did have certain players that piqued their interest more than others, they certainly wouldn’t tell anyone in the media.
Their scouting reports on players, which are only partial now with the combine, pro days and individual workouts/meetings still to come, are sacrosanct, and not shared with anybody outside their war room in Florham Park.
So the point here is simple – no they aren’t going to pay extra attention to six guys, they are going to pay attention to everybody on the North and South rosters.
January 21, 2019
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