Thread: Jets hire former Broncos coach Nathaniel Hackett as new OC

Originally Posted by Tbolt

This is the hazard with going unproven the last three times and getting the wrong guy each time. There was no real way to predict how they would do. I mean, I expected VJ to flame out and he did, but I also thought Fangio would have been better than he was. I don't know what the hell happened with Hackett. It was one gaff after another, mostly in front of a national audience. He lost me when he bent the knee to Melvin Gordon though. I knew then he was not the guy for the job.

What's the other choice though? Guys who were head coaches and failed? Harbaugh ain't walking through that door, and the Payton ship seems to be sailing too. If you can't get a proven successful coach, you're left choosing between unknowns and proven failures. There's validity to going with the higher upside of a total unknown, knowing it comes with the downside of being a disaster.

Originally Posted by BroncoWave

What's the other choice though? Guys who were head coaches and failed? Harbaugh ain't walking through that door, and the Payton ship seems to be sailing too. If you can't get a proven successful coach, you're left choosing between unknowns and proven failures. There's validity to going with the higher upside of a total unknown, knowing it comes with the downside of being a disaster.

We could have hired Pederson/Quinn last year.

There was/is Reich, Harbaugh, Payton, Quinn, Caldwell, Morris as possibilities this year.

Shanahan, Fox, Kubiak all had a track record before we hired them.

It's not impossible. Kind of strange we have repeated the process three straight hires though.

They should hire Bert Berry as OL Coach, he had Salah ties too, retribution tour.