Newsday · Apr 21, 2020
IT staff virtually indispensable in a unique NFL offseason
As the news reports kept getting more ominous, Tom Murphy knew he had to act. And quickly.
There were no stay-at-home orders at the time, but as the coronavirus epidemic began to mushroom into a deadly worldwide pandemic, Murphy and the rest of the Jets’ information technology staff had to prepare for the possibility that life as they knew it in the NFL was about to undergo a radical change.
“It was right around mid-to-late February, with all that was going on, when we started saying, ‘Wow, what if we have to work from home? How are we going to do this?’ ” said Murphy, the Jets’ vice president of information technology.
