Adam Gase on Friday announced the completion of his Jets assistant coaching staff and it included a couple of interesting twists.
One was Joe Vitt, a 41-year NFL coaching veteran who also happens to be Gase’s father-in-law. Vitt will serve as a senior defensive assistant working with outside linebackers. The other was former Lions offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter, who only a year ago was considered a head-coaching candidate. Cooter will coach running backs.
Vitt spent more than a decade in New Orleans as assistant head coach and linebackers coach. In 2012, he served as interim head coach of the Saints when Sean Payton was forced to sit out the season as punishment for his role in the Bountygate scandal.