The New York Jets have lastly seen sufficient to make a training change. No, it is not Adam Gase simply but, however as a substitute defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, who’s now well-known across the NFL world for his defensive choice within the waning seconds in opposition to the Las Vegas Raiders in Week 13. Williams has reportedly been fired by the Jets, the group introduced, lower than 24 hours after being the rationale quarterback Derek Carr was capable of finding rookie first-round choose Henry Ruggs on a deep route with 13 seconds remaining in the game for what was the walk-off touchdown.
The Jets led 28-24 at that time and had been one cease away from securing their first win of the season. As a substitute, they’re now 0-12 and hypothesis surrounding their veiled (or not a lot?) makes an attempt at tanking are actually at full throat. With Gase himself sitting on the hottest coaching seat in the NFL, he is now made the transfer to jettison Williams — which may make issues fascinating because the Jets conclude their 2020 season.
The position of interim defensive coordinator reportedly goes to linebackers coach Frank Bush, who joined the group in 2019 together with Williams. The 57-year-old is a former linebacker himself that moved to the NFL teaching ranks in 1993 for the Houston Oilers and, as such, brings a wealth of expertise to the place, together with having additionally served as defensive coordinator for the Houston Texans in 2009.
The transfer on Williams will inevitably start what may and ought to be a serious shakeup within the teaching workers in New York, and that features hypothesis on the way forward for Blake Williams — the son of the now-fired defensive coordinator who presently serves as a defensive assistant for Gase and basic supervisor Joe Douglas. And while Douglas recently married himself to Gase long-term within the public eye, there aren’t any ensures that would be the case when the offseason arrives. Time will inform if Douglas really believes Gase is the person for the job in a 12 months that is seen the group go 0-12 (the final loss being attributable to Williams’ weird blitz name within the remaining seconds) and a wholesale regression on former first-round choose Sam Darnold, who himself is likely to be enjoying out his remaining days in a Jets uniform.
For Williams, a future within the NFL is much more muddied, contemplating his current previous within the league. The ringleader of the bounty scandal throughout the New Orleans Saints group in 2012 — labeled Bountygate — that led to go coach Sean Payton being suspended your complete season to observe, a $500,000 group fantastic and the lack of second-round picks in each 2012 and 2013. Williams himself was suspended from the league indefinitely on the time, as had been a number of Saints gamers, together with linebacker Jonathan Vilma.
The suspension on Williams threw a monkey wrench in his hiring by former NFL head coach Jeff Fisher and the Rams, who introduced him on workers previous to the league dropping the hammer. He was fired by the Rams in 2013 with out ever having labored a day for them, happening to signal with Tennessee Titans as a senior defensive assistant that season as soon as he was reinstated.
He’d strive his hand with Fisher once more in 2014 as defensive coordinator for the Rams, however each had been fired in 2016, resulting in Williams being employed by the Cleveland Browns in the identical position. Sweeping modifications pushed him into the interim head coach position after the firing of Hue Jackson, however he was fired by the Browns with the promotion of Freddie Kitchens to full-time head coach. The controversial coordinator signed on with the Jets in 2019 and it is not been a quiet keep in New York both, with Williams sending veiled photographs at Gase’s offense as a way of explaining the Jets defensive woes, and now seeing his tenure finish in a powerful catastrophe — because of the ultimate 13 seconds of Week 13.
The place the Jets go from right here is anybody’s guess, however the identical might be stated for Williams, contemplating the bags he carries.