It looks like the Jets’ new defensive coaching staff is complete.
They hired Brian Duker as defensive coordinator and Karl Dunbar as D-Line coach. along with linebackers coach Ben Bolling, safeties coach Ryan Slowik, defensive assistant/nickel coach Ronald Booker, and defensive assistant Collin Bauer.
Is this staff an upgrade? I have no idea, and neither does anybody else at this point.
Like, for instance, to sit here and say that the new defensive line coach, Dunbar, is an upgrade over Eric Washington, that would be somewhat unfair.
Don’t get me wrong, Dunbar is a good D-Line coach, but so is Washington, who has been coaching NFL defensive lines since 2010.
But one thing is for sure, the personnel department better provide better defensive personnel for this new staff than they did for the old one.
Entering this off-season, if the Jets are being realistic in evaluating the defense and eschewing rose-colored glasses, they probably need 6-7 new starters on defense, new starters at positions across all three levels.
You can trash the Jets’ old defensive staff all you want, but many of them were not dealt the best hands.
That was not a great defensive roster/depth chart last year, and it got worse after the Quinnen Williams and Sauce Gardner trades.
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