Chapter 1: What recent changes are happening with the Jets coaching staff?
You know, I think the story yesterday, not only Joe Brady getting the job up there and all the stuff coming out of the Jets facility and all the news and Tanner Engstrom stepping away. He wasn't fired, by the way. He basically did not want to be demoted.
And I don't blame him at all for not wanting to hang around if they are bringing in a new offensive coordinator, which everything is trending towards, and defense coordinator, which everything is trending towards.
Because remember, you know, when these guys get hired, when offensive and defensive coordinators get hired, they don't want to go into a building where they don't have their guys with them teaching their systems. They don't want to call somebody else's defense. They don't want to call somebody else's offense.
They don't want to have to teach a whole group of guys a whole new plan of attack in the way that we go about things. So if it is, let's just use the name John Smith. If John Smith is the coveted defensive coordinator, he's probably telling the Jets, yeah, I would like to take the job, but I need my guys in the building with me coaching what I normally coach.
And let me take a look at the list of coaches that you have on your roster to see whether or not I could work with them or have worked with them somewhere else and if they would understand what I am trying to do.
Because there's nothing worse than a guy like, say, a Jim Leonard who's probably going to go to Buffalo now or a Wink Martindale that would want to come in and all of a sudden say, okay, Aaron, you're going to call the defensive plays, but I'm doing what?
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Chapter 2: Why did Tanner Engstrom step away from the Jets?
I mean, I've been around long enough. This is my chance. Jim Leonard will never take this job because Jim Leonard's looking to be able to become his own defensive coordinator. He doesn't want to be a bag handler for somebody. That's why Joe Brady most likely is going to go get Jim Leonard, and Joe Brady is going to bring in Jim Leonard as defense coordinator in Buffalo.
I would think that makes total sense to me. If Jim Leonard is up for this job here in New York, I guarantee you a lot of people are probably telling him, Don't take it. Don't take it. You're too young.
This is going to be your first foray as an NFL defensive coordinator where it's your defense, and you're going to want to go somewhere where you have a chance to win, and you have a chance to win immediately, and that's what the Buffalo Bills afford you because of their quarterback. So I would think, and plus he played up there and he knows.
And by the way, he did play for Aaron Glenn, I think, in Cleveland.
Chapter 3: How do new coordinators affect team dynamics?
So, you know, they know all these people know each other. And, like, you want to help a friend. You want to be there for a guy. You really want to give him some support if you can. But then that guy on the other side, meaning Aaron Glenn, has got to be able to say to his owner, We're getting rid of like eight of these guys that have three-year contracts. That's what I'm assuming.
That's how long these usually are for most position coaches. It's usually about three years. So it's not like Tanner Engstrom doesn't have financial stability over the next two years. And I guarantee you he'll either get a job at Chicago or go back to Detroit somewhere where he's a part of the Ben Johnson tree. So, I mean, it's ā If I were Tanner Engstrom, I would have done the same thing.
I would have said, you know what? I appreciate everything that you've given me. You've given me an opportunity, although I'm not sure that the quarterbacks that you gave me gave me a chance really to show what I could do here. But I'm not going to sit here under another offensive coordinator. And I would assume whether it be Frank, whether it be John Gruden, or whether it be anybody else ā
That offensive coordinator is changing what the Jets have been taught this year. So now this is like three years in a row that there's going to be a new type of offense, a new installation package, new words, new ways to describe things. And the coaches that are remaining probably are thought of very highly about the coordinators that are coming in. That's how I would frame this.
All right, so whose idea was it to contact John Gruden to be a part of Aaron Glenn's staff? That's an answer I need to know. Because if it is someone who is not Aaron Glenn, and it was Darren Moochie's idea, or Woody or Christopher Johnson's idea. I think there's only one person. That means that it's a major, major problem for Aaron Glenn.
I think there's only one person that's higher than Aaron Glenn in the whole organization, and that would be Woody Johnson. And Christopher Johnson, of course. But I don't see Christopher Johnson doing this. I could see Aaron Glenn going to Woody saying, hey, let me give it a shot with John Gruden. I could see that.
I could see Aaron Glenn trying to get somebody like a Gruden or a Frank Reich or somebody. And again, like John Gruden's not coming back to take this job. That would be an explosive move. That would be explosive. Just knowing the personalities. Well, that's why it's insane for them to even ask. Yeah, and again, I don't know how accurate this report is. That I don't know.
Because I'm not talking to John Gruden. And I know that Dave Portnoy put it out there. And I know that Connor Hughes has got it out there, which I told you the other day. I really feel like his contacts have been really good. I just... I do not ā I just ā I don't know. I don't know. I would think the head coach. I would think Aaron Clark.
You think Aaron Clark would be asking about this? Yes, yes. So why would he think that a guy who has all the experience in the world, has won a Super Bowl, is an alpha male, who is a rally-the-troops guy who all he wants to do is be a head coach, asking that guy to come in and be a part of your staff would be a good idea?
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Chapter 4: What prompted the Jets to consider hiring Jon Gruden?
It was really crazy, the teams he was on.
I'm just telling you, with what I see happening here, I see coordinators that probably have accepted the jobs, and I see them bringing in coaches that they want to coach with that can teach their particular systems, both on offense and defense. That's what I think. So you're saying Wink and Frank. That's going to happen. I didn't say that. I can't say that.
And I would never say that unless I knew it 100% on the nose. But that's what it feels like it's going to happen. But that's what it feels like. Whoever the coordinators are, they're going to be able to bring in coaches that can teach their systems. Now, listen, they could keep Chris Harris.
They can keep him as defense coordinator if Aaron Glenn wants to call the defense because that is definitely an upgrade in pay for Chris Harris, and it would give him a chance to become a defensive coordinator within the building that he knows and with a coach that he knows that he's worked for. I could see that too. I could see him staying here. What I can't see...
Honestly, if you're bringing in Wink Martin, again, I just want to say this. If you're bringing in a guy like Wink Martindale, he has to do his thing. He cannot be told what to do. He could be told during game days what to do. And, like, I don't want to blitz here. I do want to blitz here. Heat him up here, Wink. You know, let's do this defense. This works. This is what we talked about.
I could see all of that happening on game day. But you are not bringing in a Wink Martindale. to be some lackey that's running somebody else's defense.
I'm sorry. There's no way that the Jets are Aaron Glenn. I mean, as dumb as they have been, I can't imagine that they would assume that we're going to bring in Wink Martindale and tell him what to do. That's not why you bring in Wink Martindale.
But again, we keep hearing reoccurring Aaron wants to call the defense because that's his thing. He wants to call the defense. So if he does, then he does.
I mean, I thought what he did when he first came here, I thought he was going to be that CEO, John Harbaugh type of coach, that he was going to be able to coach everybody, talk to everybody, stay involved in game day decisions, situational decisions, that kind of stuff. And now all of a sudden, for whatever reason, there's this narrative out there that he's going to call the defense.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of hiring a controversial figure like Gruden?
The difference really is, does the coordinator have the absolute guts to do what is necessary? in the crunch time parts of the game to call the defense that he thinks is going to either stop the team from getting a first down or get an interception, which is something they were incapable of doing last year.
Yeah, which is still mind-boggling. Yeah, it really is. No matter how much time separates from the end of the season to wherever we are, that's still going to be something that is just truly unbelievable.