Here's what I like with Reich... he's had success with so many different types of QBs. Andrew Luck - a dream. 39 TD, 15 INT, 10-6 record and a playoff appearance in their only year together where they famously had one of the worst OLs of all time. Jacoby Brissett - 18 TD, 6 INT, 60% completion (all career highs) 7-9 record and missed the playoffs in a year where the franchise was shellshocked by Luck's retirement. Incorporated a running QB, 56 rushing attempts. Phillip Rivers - 24 TD, 11 INT, 4100+ yards, 68% completion,11-5 record. The year prior Brissett had almost 300 rush yards. This year Rivers had -8 on 18 attempts, probably none of them designed. Carson Wentz - 27 TD, 7 INT, 62% completion... his numbers the year before: 16 TD, 15 INT (led league), 57% completion. Back to a mobile QB... 57 rushing attempts on the year. Reich was also the playcaller all four years working alongside Nick Sirianni... who get a job based off the Colts offense and now the Eagles offense is in shambles. So I think using deductive reasoning you can figure out who was running the show on offense on gameday. Obviously it helps when you have good QBs like Luck and Rivers... but Brissett and Wentz were not good QBs. So is it perfect? No not at all. Probably not even in my top 10 options if we had a clean slate even removing the top tier guys who would laugh if we called. But it's very easy to see why Reich is highly regarded as an offensive mind and the real path there is to having success if our eventual QB isn't blank between the ears.
Yup. And even after he left the Eagles the first time, Doug Pederson's offense went into the tank and it became pretty clear who had really been the thought leader behind Wentz / Foles winning the SB.
It's a good hire.One of the few the organization has made. In spite of what a disaster our offense was last season, Reich will have a strong foundation to work with. Just find a serviceable quarterback until we can draft our franchise guy and things on offense should get a lot better.
the best of the candidates that were willing to take the job - shame for him that the Jets don't have a great QB so assume they will franchise tag or do a deal with Breece as without him there is very little to work with. I really hope that they haven't promised to trade for some lower to mid-tier QB that ends up with 6 or 7 wins and costs us a top pick in next year's draft while at the same time not taking the franchise forward in a meaningful way.
Yeah, the success he had with these QB is rather remarkable. Brissett and Wentz looked very good with him, and they are scrubs. Even Rivers, people forget he was 39 years old, and when he was 38 for the Chargers he substantially declined and had bad TD/TO ratio. Everyone thought he was a shell of himself, but he had a great year with Reich. Even Young while was not good with him, still threw more TDs than picks and generally I don't think Young is that good to begin with. I think Reich got a raw deal in Carolina. Makes me a bit upset Moore didn't declare. I actually think Reich could have developed him.
I don't know much about Reich offense. I'm going to do my due diligence but I'm curious on what others think about his offenses, philosophy, scheme, etc.. ? How may this impact us with players in this upcoming draft?
Maybe we'll FINALLY see pass plays designed BEYOND the 1st down marker!!! Upside is Glenn got his CS before the draft. Hopefully they can prepare better this year.
Man, these Athletics beat writers just hate the Jets. Look at the reporting. https://x.com/ZackBlatt/status/2019059350183051741 "Frank Reich before his one season as the interim Stanford coach in 2025 (doing Andrew Luck a favor): "I did un-retire just for this year. It’s a one-year thing. But I’m excited. I’m all in. It’s going to be special.” Now he's doing Aaron Glenn a favor — unretiring, again, to coach an offense that currently doesn't have a quarterback." The start is OK, so Reich unretired to go to Stanford. But he was just in Stanford now though, he hasn't retired again, and Zach still says "unretiring again". Then points out that the Jets do not have a QB. That time he told the truth, but still, why is that relevant to the report of Reich becoming an OC specifically? Just to make it sound worse for the Jets in his "report" of the OC hire.
Agreed…well stated I would have been ok keeping Tanner and seeing if he could grow, but Reich is a good fall back, and probably a better OC right now than Tanner is Look, could it go sideways? Of course…this is the Jets we are talking about…Reich has been out of the NFL for a few years now, so we’ll see if he will show well or if the game has passed him by But all in all, I like this outcome This is probably the best news I’ve felt since we fired Wilks…
I think Reich is the classic "great coordinator, bad coach" kinda guy. What Saleh will be, what Daboll is, what Rex was. He clearly knows what he's doing and how to adapt. Our offense should be good enough to tread water. The problem is regardless of who we hired at DC, our defense needs a complete overhaul. And Moore needs more than a year to develop. So it's either keep this staff or change up everything around Moore at the start of year 2. Bad all around. It's why I don't want to waste any of our first or second round picks on Simpson.
I like that there is a respected adult in the room. Maybe Glenn can learn, maybe Woody isn’t always doing dumb shit, at least Mougy has a respected voice of reason.
I think that this is exactly what will happen, and it doesn't contradict Esiason's comments about him coming to support Glenn. I firmly believe that Glenn won't make it to the end of the season (probably won't make it past the bye week), and Reich is the perfect guy to take on the interim job when that happens. No backstabbing involved at all.
