If it weren’t clear earlier than, it’s now: The Jets are leaving no stone unturned of their head coach search.
Mike Locksley, the pinnacle coach at Maryland, interviewed Friday for the emptiness, the workforce introduced.
He’s 35-67 as a head coach on the faculty degree, together with 32-36 over the previous seven seasons at Maryland.
Locksley, 55, beforehand interviewed for the Dolphins emptiness in 2022 earlier than Mike McDaniel was employed.
The Jets have interviewed seven candidates — together with Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo on Friday, as properly — and have made requests to talk with at the very least 9 extra coaches.
Not one of the different 15 candidates are from the faculty ranks or as out of the blue as Locksley, although the Jets are the one workforce presently anticipated to talk with eight of the folks on their checklist, together with interim head coach Jeff Ulbrich.
Locksley ended up on the Jets’ radar due to a status fostered as a robust program tradition builder within the Massive Ten throughout his second stint calling the photographs.
Locksley’s first head coach stint resulted in a disastrous 2-26 report at New Mexico throughout a three-year tenure (2009-11) that included an altercation with an assistant coach and an age and intercourse discrimination lawsuit that was later withdrawn, in response to studies.
Locksley was interim head coach at Maryland for six video games in 2015 and later returned as the varsity’s full-time head coach after a cease at Alabama.
He adopted Giants head coach Brian Daboll as Alabama’s offensive coordinator in 2018.
The 2018 Crimson Tide set single-season data for factors scored and whole offense with quarterbacks Tua Tagovailoa, Jalen Hurts and Mac Jones, operating backs Josh Jacobs, Najee Harris, Brian Robinson Jr. and Damien Harris and receivers DeVonta Smith, Jerry Jeudy, Jaylen Waddle and Henry Ruggs — 9 of whom turned first-round draft picks.
The season earned Locksley the Broyles Award because the nation’s prime assistant coach.
The thirty third Workforce suppose tank helps establish and vet candidates, whereas Jets proprietor Woody Johnson leads the interviews with potential head coaches and basic managers.
All interviews with candidates beneath NFL contracts have to be carried out just about till at the very least Jan. 20.
Whoever is teaching the 2025 Jets may have a house sport at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, the NFL introduced Friday. The date, time and opponent will probably be introduced sooner or later.
The Jets additionally interviewed Buccaneers assistant GM Mike Greenberg, a Lengthy Island native, for the final supervisor job.
The Jets fired head coach Robert Saleh after dropping in London in Week 5 of the 2024 season. Johnson is the previous United States Ambassador to the UK.
