SNY’s Connor Hughes had another blockbuster earlier this week:
“The name that is kind of here and the rest of the pack from my understanding it is Mike Vrabel. I know the Jets have already put out their feelers to gauge interest if Vrabel would be interested in the Jets, if there is anything there. Would he want the job? Would he take the job or anything like that? He is somebody from my understanding is atop the Jets’ wishlist.
“Multiple NFL sources believe [that Vrabel] is the coach the Jets covet the most.”
This is big news, and should not come as a surprise.
Of course he should be their top candidate. He’s a top-shelf coach and the alpha dog leader they need to change their culture.
Vrabel should never have been fired by Tennessee, who overachieved with him at the helm. Do you think Ryan Tannehill is an elite QB? Perhaps not, but Vrabel went 7-3, 11-5 and 12-5 with him as the starter from 2019-21.
The big reason Vrabel is no longer the Titans coach, fired after last season, is the team’s owner, Amy Adams Strunk, chose GM Ran Carthon over him in a power struggle.
Vrabel would be a home-run hire for Jets owner Woody Johnson and would help him get many fans off his back. If you read the comments under Johnson’s myriad tweets, some fans are pushing him to sell the team.
Hiring Vrabel if they don’t retain Jeff Ulbrich, would be a tour-de-force move, and the fans would love it.
It’s never good to govern by public opinion polls, however, this would not only win over the public but make sense from a football standpoint. It’s a win-win.
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