Public perception will make it harder for coaches and execs with options to take jobs with the team. Plus, why Daniel Jones was benched, fixing Caleb Williams, Drake Maye’s development and more in Albert Breer’s Tuesday notes.
• The New York Jets became the first team I can remember to fire their coach and GM on separate occasions in-season.
This, without question, will make it harder to get people with options to take jobs there. To lure Douglas from Philadelphia in 2019. the Jets had to put together a six-year, $20 million offer—an off-the-charts contract at the time for a first-time GM. And the murmurs on what goes on in that building, the problems that every football person who’s worked there seems to run into, certainly haven’t gotten any better in the five years since.
The first happened in the first quarter on New York’s fourth offensive snap. It was third-and-8, and Malik Nabers came wide open breaking back toward the ball on a sideline route. Jones airmailed it so far over Nabers’s head that the rookie, palms up after the play, didn’t even make an attempt to go up for it. A simple catch there, at the very least, would’ve put the Giants in position to kick a field goal, and probably would’ve gotten the first down.
That’s another reason why Brian Daboll had to bench Jones—to give his players something to believe in to try to build momentum going into 2025. Tommy DeVito isn’t great, and he’s certainly not as talented as Drew Lock, but the team knows he can run the offense, which should at least give the other 10 guys in the huddle a better chance to do their jobs.
All that, of course, wasn’t going to be fixed in a week. The coaches knew, with the firing of Shane Waldron signaling it, that they had to do more to meet him halfway with the scheme. That manifested Sunday with Brown calling some designed runs, and screens and RPOs from the USC playoff to get the ball out of his hands and get him playing faster.
So I called a couple coaches who’ve faced the Patriots over the past couple weeks to ask. Their feedback may surprise you, and runs counter to some narratives out there. As for that lack of motions and shifts, the coach continued, “I mean, motion definitely puts more stress on the defense but it’s also more on the quarterback with the communication and timing. So I think keeping the picture clear for Drake helps. The juice ain’t worth the squeeze sometimes.”
To be clear, it wasn’t that Richardson hadn’t been working hard previously. It was more so that he’d put in a solid day, and not go above and beyond. And in the NFL, at that position, if a player isn’t going above and beyond every week, he isn’t giving himself much of a chance.over being benched a couple weeks ago. It lit a fire under him.
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