When Aaron Glenn was forming his initial staff a year ago, there were rumors that he wanted to hire Los Angeles Rams pass game coordinator Nick Caley as his offensive coordinator.
SNY’s Connor Hughes announced that Caley was the team’s “top option,” but he has “let it be known he did not have interest in the job.”
Instead of joining the Jets, Caley took the OC job with the Houston Texans.
Obviously, the Jets hired Tanner Engstrand, who worked with Glenn in Detroit, to be their offensive coordinator. Engstrand had the same title in Detroit as Caley had in Los Angeles – passing game coordinator.
The Texans fired OC Bobby Slowik after the 2024 offensive struggles and replaced him with Caley, and nothing really improved, as you saw most of this season and in the Texans’ playoff loss to New England on Sunday.
“Houston’s offense just can’t get out of their own way,” former NFL QB Jim “Mills” Miller said in December on SiriusXM NFL Radio. “I don’t think offensively, they are going to pick it up as the season rolls along. I think they are who they are – a bad offensive football team.”
So all these people who made a big deal about the Jets not getting their supposed first choice for OC might have made a mountain out of a mole hill.
Not saying Engstrand has been Bill Walsh, but who is Caley, the second coming of Don Coryell?
Clearly not.
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