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Being down at the Senior Bowl in Mobile . . .
you talk to a lot of football people.
It’s kind of like a football convention with a coterie of scouts, coaches, GM’s and reporters converging on Ladd-Peebles Stadium for the week.
You wonder how much longer this event is going to be help at Ladd-Peebles, a run-down stadium in the middle of kind of a rough neighborhood.
And since Ladd-Peebles is going to lose their major tenant in a few years, with the University of South Alabama building their own football stadium, you wonder about the future of this stadium in general. It needs a lot of work.
But I digress.
One thing I heard about Adam Gase from talking to people is he has a temper.
One long-time NFL observer cracked, “I could see Adam and Gregg Williams getting into a few fights on the practice field.”
We all know that Williams is a fiery cat as well.
But even if Williams and Gase go at it, that isn’t a bad thing for the Jets.
This team needs some fire, and these two, along with special team’s coach Brant Boyer bring a lot of fire, along with a lot of accountability.
I could also see Gase losing his temper a few times a year with the Jets’ media. With some, it’s all about click-bait, and not that much about studying football. In other worlds, some of the
nonsense some of these guys get into has nothing to do with winning and losing on Sunday.
I could see Gase blowing at gasket with some of these guys at times. I think it’s inevitable.
And wait until he sees how far it is from his office to the media room. It’s a hike, and coaches on a tight schedule have every minute of their long day planned. That last thing most of these guys want to do are press conferences, especially one in a room like a quarter-mile from their office. This set-up isn’t ideal, and once Gase finds this out (this probably wasn’t brought up during his interviews with the Jets), he’s not going to be happy.
Like I said the other day, Gase puts in incredible hours, and that is why he pounds Red Bulls and coffee, like I mentioned the other day. And this might have contributed to his crazy eyes at his introductory presser.
He puts in such long hours, that one guy at the Senior Bowl joked “He’s never changed a diaper.”
He has three kids and a very understanding wife. Her father is long-time NFL assistant Joe Vitt, the former Saints interim coach when Sean Payton was suspended for Bounty-gate. So she knows all about the grind of an NFL coach.
Vitt could end up as a Jets consultant like he was in Miami.
Vitt is a Jersey-guy, so he might love finishing his career in the home state.
Vitt is a such a big Jersey-guy, he still has a shore house, and from what I hear, Adam, Joe’s daughter and their kids usually spend two weeks there before training camp.
So you have it, so odds-and-ends I heard about Gase down at the Senior Bowl.
Have a good weekend.
January 25, 2019
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