At the Jets’ recent minicamp, we saw a new scout roaming the sidelines with an eagle eye on practice.
Who was that guy?
It was long-time NFL scout T.J. McCreight who was added as a senior scout.
This guy has been around the NFL since 1997, when he was hired as a scout by the Baltimore Ravens. He worked in Baltimore for eight years, and also had stops in Indianapolis, Arizona, and Philadelphia over a long scouting career.
He wasn’t with a team the last couple of years, and was working as a consultant, and writer for the “33rd Team” website.
To Darren Mougey’s credit, as a first-time GM, at the age of 40, he knows he doesn’t have all the answers.
So adding guys like McCreight and former GM Rick Spielman as personnel sidekicks and sounding boards is good for business.
Spielman was hired as senior football advisor in February, after assisting the Jets in their GM and HC searches.
Mougey is smart for surrounding himself with guys like Spielman and McCreight, who have forgotten more about NFL scouting than most of us will ever know.
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