Because the New York Jets put together to play the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, their extra important enterprise will start this week once they start their common supervisor interviews, league sources informed ESPN.
Included on the listing of candidates anticipated to interview for the Jets job are former Titans common supervisor Jon Robinson, who at one level helped construct one of many league’s higher rosters in Tennessee, and ESPN analyst Louis Riddick, who beforehand has labored within the Philadelphia and Washington entrance places of work.
There can be different candidates as effectively, and the Jets plan to announce or verify every GM interview after it’s accomplished, however Robinson’s is predicted this week, with Riddick’s coming at a later date, in line with sources.
The Jets will not be married to hiring a common supervisor first and a head coach second — nor vice versa — because the group undertakes a radical course of geared toward yielding the most effective candidates in every place. It simply occurs that the interviews for the GM job will begin first.
Robinson and Riddick are free to fulfill with the Jets any time they want, whereas different candidates who’re with NFL organizations can not interview with the workforce till after the common season ends. That is why the method with candidates not employed by different NFL groups begins this week.
Throughout his time in Tennessee, Robinson oversaw the Titans’ drafting of working again Derrick Henry and large receiver A.J. Brown. The workforce by no means had a shedding season and made the playoffs 4 instances throughout Robinson’s seven years as common supervisor earlier than he was fired in December 2022 in a transfer that floored individuals throughout the league.
Robinson is the second-winningest common supervisor in franchise historical past, with 69 wins (together with playoffs), trailing solely Floyd Reese (111).
Riddick has been linked to a number of entrance workplace vacancies lately and interviewed for the Pittsburgh Steelers’ GM job that went to Omar Khan in Could 2022. Riddick is doing the colour commentary for Monday night time’s Falcons-Raiders recreation and, partially due to his ESPN duties, is predicted to interview within the coming weeks.
He performed seven seasons within the NFL for 4 groups after being drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in 1991. He adopted that with almost 13 years in entrance workplace roles with Washington and Philadelphia, together with main the professional personnel departments of each franchises. Riddick additionally interviewed for GM openings in 2020 with the Lions and Texans.
The Jets not too long ago retained The thirty third Workforce to help them of their common supervisor and head teaching searches. Former Jets GM Mike Tannenbaum and former Vikings GM Rick Spielman are main the mission for the NFL expertise and media firm. The thirty third Workforce has been offering its information evaluation and lending its expertise to help the Jets.
The Jets (3-10) fired Joe Douglas as their common supervisor final month, six weeks after ousting coach Robert Saleh.
