After Mike LaFleur and the team “parted ways” a couple of weeks ago, Jets coach Robert Saleh interviewed more than 15 candidates for their vacant offensive coordinator position.
But there was one name Saleh kept returning to during his search: former Broncos coach Nathaniel Hackett.
“Went to college, went to different schemes and talked to different people,” Saleh said. “A lot of really good football coaches out there.
“But when it came back to a certain checklist I was trying to go through, just checking boxes on what we were looking for in regards to this next offensive coordinator, I just kept circling back to him.