(01-14-2025, 02:11 PM)The_Franchise_QB Wrote:

(01-14-2025, 01:58 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: Ummm - when did anyone imply otherwise? 

Interviewing all the HC candidates considered viable by your search committee doesn't mean you're suddenly going to alter course and tell your HC who to hire on his staff. 

Khan has clearly expressed that the next HC is going to rule the roost in Duval. Why would he then tell that guy who to hire? 

What I'm saying is it can only be beneficial to have your owners, executives, and search committee advisors be familiar with the guys the HC might bring in to work under him. 

Question: Do you actually think the reason they included Saleh in their search was because they want to tell their eventual HC to hire him?? Really?? 

Do you have any recollection on the national opinion of Saleh before Rodgers had him fired? 
I do.
He was a media darling credited with building a stout defense in NY that was getting all kinds of preseason love as a shoe-in playoff contender.  

In 2023 the Jets pass defense was top ten in:
Comp. % allowed
yard per attempt allowed
INTs forced

After the past two years of watching our secondary - I'm ALL ABOUT picking that guys brain in an interview if I get the chance. Even if I have zero interest in hiring him to coach my team.

I disagree, there is zero point to due diligence if you're bringing in the guy to gauge his interest as DC as potentially the DC under the eventual HC. 

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That is not what they did.

They did their due diligence on interviewing viable candidates for HC. He was one of them. 

You're inventing a false narrative that they brought him in because they may want him as DC. 

He may be the 10th guy on their HC wish list, and he'd be 14th on mine, but you don't just blow off the interview because he's not your pre-interview top choice. That's literally the definition of due diligence. I must have missed the memo when we as a society cancelled due diligence.

BTW - Hackett was forced on him by Rodgers/ownership.

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