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As you know by now, the Jets fired offensive line coach Steve Marshall after the season.
And they proceeded to hire Rick Dennison.
However, they didn’t fire the assistant offensive line coach, David Diaz-Infante, “DDI” as everyone around the Jets calls him.
So why would you fire your offensive line coach, but keep his assistant?
Simple.
Diaz-Infante has Denver roots, in-fact, he has two Super Bowl rings, playing guard for the Broncos in the late 90’s – Mike Shanahan’s Broncos. Diaz-Infante played four years with the Broncos.
He comes from the system the Jets are installing under Jeremy Bates and Rick Dennison, two other Shanahan disciples.
In fact, Dennison was on the Broncos coaching staff Diaz-Infante’s entire time playing in Denver.
So it makes perfect sense for the Jets to keep “DDI.” Not only did he play in the offensive line system the Jets are installing, he has a good relationship with Dennison from their four years together with the Broncos . . .
Robby Anderson’s issue, is not something Todd Bowles can fix. It’s above his paygrade. It’s also above my paygrade, and most of you out there, aside from those of you who are psychologists.
Before I continue, I want to make it clear, I’m not judging anybody. We all have issues/problems. It’s part of being human.
But Anderson clearly needs help, the kind of help that Bowles can’t provide, and that isn’t a shot at Bowles. After all he’s a football coach, not doctor.
Today, Anderson went off on former NFL player Cris Carter on twitter.
“Dat f-k n—a @criscarter80 been throwing shade since I was jit n lil league I become this wit out a father all dat hate you doing free promo,” Anderson tweeted.
I don’t know what this means, but it clearly was an attack on Carter, and Anderson quickly deleted it, but not before the New York Post captured it.
Anderson has been arrested twice over the last year. On May 8, 2018, he was arrested at a music festival and charged with resisting arrest. The case still hasn’t been adjudicated. On January, 19, he was arrested on nine charges, after speeding away from police, including resisting arrest and threatening to sexually assault the arresting police officer’s wife. There were nine charges in all. Both case happened in South Florida.
This is a guy who needs help.
He clearly has a short fuse.
I recently heard a noted psychologist recently talking about his patients who are constantly loosing their temper, leading to bad situations.
“I work on lengthening their fuses,” the doctor said.
Anderson needs to have his fuse lengthened.
And this isn’t just based on his arrests, but how about some of the stuff on the field? Throwing his helmet, spiking the ball on the Patriots sideline after hitting a New England player in the face?
And Bowles isn’t equipped to help Robby fix his problem.
He’s not a mental health expert.
Chiefs coach Andy Reid couldn’t do a darn thing to help talented CB Marcus Peters, a guy with a hair-trigger temper, which got him tossed off the team as Washington, and now traded from Kansas City.
And Bowles can’t fix Anderson’s problem.
He doesn’t have a medical degree on his office wall in Florham Park.
And I write that with no disrespect intended.
I write that with reality intended.
March 6, 2018
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