The revamp in personnel is the most important change the Jets have made this winter. That's what gives us a chance to break out of the cycle we've been in and move forward again. I'm looking forward to seeing the new team in action.
One other note that everyone has not linked up yet. Did you notice who the first player acquisition of the Mikey Mac era is (from Cmini): "4. Hip, hip, Hooey! Let the record show the first player acquisition of the Mike Maccagnan era is tackle Sean Hooey, a 6-foot-9, 304-pound lineman who spent 2013 on the St. Louis Rams' practice squad. He signed a reserve-futures contract." Interesting that our first signing comes off the team we are hiring the scout from.
This is most excellent news we got some football heads in the FO. Best part is we will have them for the draft!
I hope this is a good move....young rising star moves to the Jets to make his mark. Coaching and Scouting are two areas a team controls without concern over the crushing salary cap. Just when I thought Woody was so tight you couldn't pull a greased screw driver from his ass with a bulldozer he opens the purse strings. Nice.
Did he do all the scouting for the rams when they made that trade with the redskins? They got about 7 starters from that draft. Hopefully he can find some talent that produces.
Damned good question. I'm guessing he had lots of inputs just based on his resume. Apparently he is a sharp up and coming scout with a nose for talent particularly in the WR areas. I paraphrase from the Rams site and Jets site "Brian Heimerdinger played wide receiver at Colorado State before transferring to Northern Colorado. With the Rams, he evaluated both pro and college players. On the pro side, he analyzed all players on nine NFL rosters and cross-checked any wide receivers, quarterbacks, and tight ends for free agency, in addition to providing advanced scouting reports. On the college side, he cross-checked all wide receivers as an area scout for the southwest." Key to me is that he provided advanced scouting reports to his coaches, apparently they depended on his assessment of players strengths and weaknesses, and his depth in the WR/TE/QB talent area. Lord only knows who we would have drafted at WR in 2014 if he was in charge. But I would bet the farm it would not have been J Saunders. This guy might be the future GM and for now have an immediate impact in bringing our offense into the twentieth century. We have major scars to prove how poorly we have done in drafting offensive talent. Cant wait for the draft and free agency.
I don't see how any Jets fan, even the most skeptical/cynical or the biggest darksider, couldn't be hopeful with the job McCagnan is doing. It's amazing the work he has been able to do so far. The upgrades that he has made in the personnel and scouting areas are huge and should start paying immediate dividends. It's too bad we didn't have this CS and GM team in place before last year's 12-player draft.
to be fair, we have no idea if they are upgrades. they are changes but not all changes are for the better. the optimism stems from the devil we know being gone. but the new devils have never been devils before so we really can't say for sure they will be better
No, we don't know for certain, but McCagnan and several of his new hires are highly rated for their knowledge of personnel and scouting. If nothing else, I don't see how people can't be impressed by how much he has been able to do so quickly. No one thought he'd be able to make this many changes in the area of scouting and personnel before the draft. He has almost completely overhauled those areas of the FO, and following the draft, we may have a lot of new scouts as well. The proof will be in the pudding (draft). I'm not a gambling man, but if I were, I'd bet that the 2015 Jets draft is the best we've had in a long, long time, and that future drafts will be consistently good. At least I have hope and some degree of faith in the Jets' scouting and personnel areas, whereas before this I had none.
It's jerks like you that drag this site down. Hopefully, you'll soon join Mr.Electric and others like him who were permanently banned. This site is infinitely better since those cretins were banned. It will be even better when you're gone.
Jets to hire Chicago Bears' Rex Hogan as director of college scouting, per report By Darryl Slater | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com Follow on Twitter on January 25, 2015 at 12:13 PM, updated January 25, 2015 at 12:18 PM The Jets will hire Rex Hogan, a national scout for the Bears, as their director of college scouting,according to Albert Breer of the NFL Network. It will be the first front office hire by new general manager Mike Maccagnan. Upon his arrival, he immediately cleaned out the Jets' college scouting department, by firing Terry Bradway (senior director of college scouting) and Jeff Bauer (director of college scouting). Maccagnan knows his way around the college scouting department. He was Houston's director of college scouting before the Jets hired him. So Hogan could face the pressure of working for a boss who has done his job before, and not all that long ago. The Jets also are expected to hire Rams scout Brian Heimerdinger for a to-be-determined role in the front office. Hogan is getting a promotion with the Jets, even as the Bears experienced a general manager change this offseason, going from Phil Emery to Ryan Pace, who came over from the Saints. Hogan has been a national scout for Chicago since 2012. Before that, he was a college scout for the Bears since 2003. He got his start as University of Utah's director of football operations, with a brief stint in 2003. From 2000-03, he worked in recruiting and operations for Notre Dame.
Just curious, do we have 'offensive scouts' and 'defensive scouts'? Or does the same guy scout everybody on a particular team or region of the country?
The way Macagnan has handled the scouting department and having that be his first order of business, only underscores how badly we needed changes here. Bringing in a GM that has a personnel background is proof of why Bradway kept his job for so long. No GM before him had a clue about the ineptness of the scouting department because they were corporate suits, not NFL guys. I agree with you about the 2015 Draft, I'm expecting big things. I couldn't be happier about the changes going on with the franchise. It's the whole culture of the club that's changed and although these are unproven guys, I still can't help but feel we've already changed the perception of the franchise in league circles.
Same guy will scout every player in his region. So offense, defense or special teams. If i recall correctly McCagnan will have three different scouts scout a team at three different times, so there will be three unique opinions circulating about each player as well.
Actually that's a good point, most teams hold onto scouts until the beginning of league year but the Jets are doing it different and they gave a bunch of new scouting people in place in the FO, but have they actually hired new scouts? I haven't read anything like that. Wonder what kind of situation we are in with all new personnel people and what they have brought with them, and wonder if it's legal.
Along those lines, is Brian officially on board with the Jets? As a scout for the Rams, one could assume that he has to fulfill his contract and not come on board until after the draft....which is unfortunate for us.
Heimerdinger that name alone sounds like I'm watching a WW2 documentary about the construction of German tanks
