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Jets hire another offensive coach with past ties to veteran QB targets

While the Jets haven’t made the big upgrade everyone has been waiting for yet, they’ve been busy trying to plug holes on offense. First, it was replacing Mike LaFleur with Nathaniel Hackett as offensive coordinator. New York also wanted to fill the passing-game coordinator position.

That’s been done. It’ll be easy to read into this hire, too.

The Jets’ initial interest and hiring of Hackett immediately made people connect the dots to Aaron Rodgers. After all, those two were together in Green Bay for three years and had lots of success. Rodgers has also gone on record saying that Hackett is “his guy”.