GLENDALE, Ariz. — Chiefs backup quarterback Chad Henne believes the Jets landed somebody who can flip issues round for Gang Inexperienced in new offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett.
Henne performed beneath Hackett with the Jaguars from 2015-17. Hackett was first his quarterbacks coach then was named offensive coordinator in the midst of the 2016 season.
“Nathaniel and I are very shut,” Henne stated this week as he ready for Tremendous Bowl 2023 on Sunday in opposition to the Eagles. “I believe he’s an unbelievable coach. He’s similar to Coach [Andy] Reid in that he sees the sport just like the quarterback. He communicates to the quarterback.
“Clearly, this yr everyone seems to be like, ‘Oh, Hackett’ due to what occurred with the Broncos. However I don’t see it that means. I simply really feel like he’s received an excessive amount of brainpower, an excessive amount of love for the sport, an excessive amount of emotion that he’ll be again on his ft and lead the Jets to raised locations.”
Hackett had his finest season as a coordinator with the Jaguars in 2017. With Blake Bortles because the beginning quarterback and working again Leonard Fournette main the way in which, the Jaguars had the very best speeding assault within the NFL and made it to the AFC Championship recreation, holding a 10-point fourth-quarter lead earlier than falling to the Patriots, 24-20.
“In Jacksonville, we needed to ascertain the run,” Henne stated. “I might say he’s a run-first man. He needs to get the tone set on offense with the run recreation and construct off of that with the cross recreation. He’s like what we do. We now have totally different formations that we run. We’ll have a run, we’ll have a few passes off of it. Every thing type of meshes and appears the identical. I like him. He’s among the finest I’ve been round.”
Henne stated Hackett’s system shouldn’t be exhausting to study for the Jets’ returning gamers.
“He has the power to regulate,” Henne stated. “If they’d a system final yr with totally different verbiage, he can tie of their verbiage together with his verbiage, particularly with a younger quarterback. Clearly, nobody is aware of what’s going to occur with Zach [Wilson]. However he has the power to regulate and make it straightforward on the offense, as nicely.”
