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Now there will be a third team that will benefit . . .
from the Jets coaching at the Senior Bowl.
The Indianapolis Colts hired Jets assistant defensive line coach Nate Ollie to be their new defensive line coach.
Ollie was part of the Jets staff coaching the National Team at the Senior Bowl
So just like Jake Moreland in Denver and Matt Burke in Arizona, Ollie can take the information he gleaned from being on a Senior Bowl coaching staff, being on the field and in the meetings with the National Team players, and help a new employer.
It’s a shame for the Jets that three guys who were on the inside with them in Mobile with the National Team, can now take that information elsewhere.
It is what it is.
Ollie to Indianapolis makes sense because the Colts recently hired Gus Bradley as their new defensive coordinator, and Bradley plays the same defensive system as Robert Saleh and Jeff Ulbrich, so Ollie has a strong understanding of what Bradley wants to do with his defensive linemen – get upfield and make plays without a lot of two gapping responsibility . . .
You see stories about the Jets having “strong interest” in certain players in the draft, but take those with a grain of salt, because there is no way Joe Douglas is tipping his hand about who he has a “strong interest” in. This usually comes from an agent who represents the player.
It was written that the Jets like Notre Dame safety “Kyle Hamilton a lot.”
Of course they do. Who doesn’t? He’s a heck of a player.
They like a lot of players, but it doesn’t mean they are going to pick them.
And this idea of the Jets picking a safety at four doesn’t seem like the way to go. Hamilton is a heck of a player, but picking safeties that high is so dangerous. So many injuries at that taxing position. The Jets picked Jamal Adams and Marcus Maye high, and both have had a lot of injuries.
“There’s a real debate going on around the league about just how high you take safeties,” said NFL Network draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah on Friday.
Look, you can find safeties later in the draft. Look at that terrific tandem in Buffalo with Micah Hyde and Jordan Poyer. Hyde came into the league a fifth-round pick of Green Bay, and Poyer was a seventh-round pick of Philadelphia. Those two have been one of the best duos in football for the Bills the last four seasons.
You can find safeties without picking them in the first round, especially high in the first round. Hall-of-Famer John Lynch was a third-round pick.
Jets need cornerbacks and defensive linemen, and could likely grab one of each at four and 10, if they don’t trade down.
And defensive line need goes beyond edge-rush. Obviously they need a game-wrecking edge-rusher, but they also need another defensive tackle, because they rotate a lot, and Foley Fatukasi could move on in free agency (to a 3-4 team – better fit). Freaky defensive tackles don’t last long, and if the Jets fall in love with one, maybe one of the Georgia guys, who knows what might happen at 10, or if they trade down.
But it’s incumbent on Douglas to supply Robert Saleh with more stud defensive linemen, so the coach can go eight deep without the precipitous dropoff they had last year going to the second team. Saleh likes to rotate a lot because he asks his defensive linemen to go sideline-to-sideline and not just stay at home. So Douglas must get another stud defensive lineman, an edge or a tackle, with the fourth or 10 picks. This is non-negotiable.
And with that in mind, they also need to re-sign end Ronnie Blair, who really came on at the end of last season
February 25, 2022
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