When Jets coach Aaron Glenn hired Tanner Engstrand to lead his offense in late January, he was certainly taking a leap of faith, since the coach had never been an NFL offensive coordinator before.
Jets passing game coordinator Scott Turner has been an NFL OC before, and was asked recently what he saw from Engstrand lording over an NFL offense for the first time this spring.
“Extremely organized – he knows what he wants to do, and he’s been around a lot of good coaches and he’s kind of putting his spin on it,” Turner said. “He’s done a great job communicating to both the staff and players.”
And he doesn’t act like a know-it-all. If he makes a mistake, he will admit it.
“He takes ownership of the offense, and if he makes a mistake, he’s the first one to say something to the players,” Turner said. “They appreciate that.”
It was pretty clear in the spring to staffers like Turner what kind of system Engstrand is looking to run.
“I think it’s going to be a physical system,” Turner said. “We are going to run the football and try to chase explosive plays. You look around the NFL, obviously, when you are running the ball, it’s a way to control the game, but to score, you can’t just go five yards. You try to get those 20, 25-plus-yard plays, and that is going to be mostly in the passing game. That is what we are going to be hunting.”
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