Former NFL head coach and present ESPN analyst Rex Ryan interviewed Saturday in Denver for the Broncos’ defensive coordinator job on Sean Payton’s employees, sources informed ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
Ryan and former Broncos head coach Vance Joseph are amongst a handful of candidates for the job. Joseph, who had been the Arizona Cardinals’ defensive coordinator since 2019, additionally is anticipated to interview for the Philadelphia Eagles’ defensive coordinator place, in keeping with a number of reviews.
Ryan, 60, has informed ESPN he would solely go away the community “for the right state of affairs,” Schefter reported.
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He joined ESPN in April 2017 after an almost 30-year teaching profession that included eight seasons as an NFL head coach with the New York Jets (2009-14) and Buffalo Payments (2015-16). He led the Jets to back-to-back AFC Championship Sport appearances within the 2009 and ’10 seasons.
Earlier than he grew to become a head coach, Ryan was with the Baltimore Ravens for 10 seasons, together with 4 seasons because the workforce’s defensive coordinator throughout which his unit ranked within the high 10 each season.
Ryan’s defenses with the Jets additionally completed ranked within the high 10 in 5 of his six seasons as head coach.
Payton employed longtime NFL assistant/particular groups coach Mike Westhoff to be the assistant head coach, sources informed ESPN’s Jeff Legwold on Friday. Westhoff, who turned 75 final month, will oversee the Broncos’ particular groups with Ben Kotwica having been employed as particular groups coordinator. Westhoff and Kotwica labored collectively on Ryan’s Jets employees from 2009 to 2012.
