He fits in

Out with the old, in with the old . . .

NFL Network’s Tom Pelissaro announced that the Jets are retaining special team’s coach Brant Boyer from the team’s old staff. Actually it’s from the last two staffs: he worked for Todd Bowles and Adam Gase.

This makes perfect sense.

He fits the new staff well.

You have seen all the highlights of how fiery Robert Saleh is. Well Boyer is the same way.

Now most people might not be aware of Boyer’s fire and brimstone style, because you don’t see a ton of cutaways of special team’s coaches during television broadcasts.

But fans that had a chance to go to training camps from 2016-19 (no open practices in 2020), can tell you about his fire in the belly.

Look, I understand, being a good coach isn’t all about yelling and screaming, but this guys isn’t just fiery, but a really good special team’s coach.

I know some people are going to point to the Jets’ kicking issues, but that really isn’t Boyer’s fault.

Think about some of the kickers that the former GM let out of the building.

Seattle’s Jason Myers didn’t miss a field goal this past season, going 24-24, and set a franchise record with 37 straight field goals going back to the 2019 season.

Chicago’s Cairo Santos finished the 2020 season by making 30 of 32 field goal attempts, including a franchise-high 27 consecutive successful field goals during the season.

New England’s Nick Folk was 26 of 28.

Boyer had two Pro Bowlers in 2018 – Myers and kick returner Andre Roberts, and the former GM didn’t re-sign either one.

And Boyer’s kick and punt cover units have been pretty solid. That is how he made his bones in the league as a backup linebacker as a standout on kick and punt coverage, and he’s really good at coaching up up those players on technique and angles.

While Saleh has never coached with Boyer, he’s going to love his style on the practice field, his passion and teaching ability.

I actually suggested in the middle of the season, if the Jets fired Gase, Boyer could be the interim coach.

You can’t just assume that every coach on the stuff of a struggling team is bad.

Gase had some good assistant coaches, with Boyer and Frank Pollack being good examples. I know some fans and reporters were critical of Pollack, but that criticism was unfounded. First of all it was a turnstile on the offensive line this year with guys in and out of the lineup, but just look at the job Pollack did developing Mekhi Becton, and Becton praised him after the season.

Pollack was the first assistant coach off the old staff to be hired by another team, going to the Cincinnati Bengals as their new offensive line coach.

Boyer’s language isn’t rated “G” in practice, I will tell you that. If you got a dollar for every “F” bomb he dropped, you would be a rich man.

He really gets after the players, but not in a personal way.

It’s more like, “let’s f-ing go” to the unit, than targeting an individual player.

But anybody who watched the Jets’ practice the last few years, would know Boyer is right out of Central Casting to coach with Saleh.

January 26, 2021

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