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Getty Images The Jets have added a pair of veteran defensive assistant coaches to fill out Robert Saleh’s first staff. Marquand Manuel will be New York’s safeties coach and Tony Oden will serve as senior defensive assistant/cornerbacks coach, according to NFL Media’s Tom Pelissero. Manuel...

Getty Images It’s not fair for Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy to have to explain why Bieniemy was offered none of the seven head-coaching vacancies filled last month by NFL teams. Bieniemy doesn’t know why he didn’t get one of the jobs. Ultimately, the people who didn’t hire him...

Getty Images Le'Veon Bell made a unique decision to bet on himself and sit out the 2018 season rather than play on the franchise tag. Through various circumstances and reasons, Bell hasn’t seen the same level of success in 2019 and 2020 as he did the first five years of his career in...

Getty Images The Jets continued filling out their defensive coaching staff on Tuesday by hiring a linebackers coach. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that Mike Rutenberg will fill that position on head coach Robert Saleh’s staff. Rutenberg worked with Saleh on the 49ers staff last season and...

Getty Images Le'Veon Bell went from one of the worst teams in football to one of the best in 2020. When the Jets released him in October, they were 0-5 and on the way to an 0-13 start and a 2-14 finish. As a free agent, Bell had a choice between the Dolphins, Bills, and Chiefs but decided to...

Getty Images Several teams tried to get quarterback Matthew Stafford from the Lions. With Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson wanting a trade of his own, it’s easy to look at the teams that didn’t get Stafford as the starting point for those who will chase Watson. The Broncos, Panthers, 49ers...

Getty Images The Cold War between the Texans and quarterback Deshaun Watson keeps heating up. A day after Texans G.M. Nick Caserio said of Watson, “[W]e have zero interest in trading the player,” Watson has made some changes to his social media accounts: He has removed all references to the...

Getty Images With the 2021 hiring cycle ended, extra draft picks eventually will be awarded to teams who lost minority candidates to coaching or G.M. jobs elsewhere. Four teams will receive multiple third-round picks in the 2021 draft as a result of the hiring of Brad Holmes from the Rams to...

Getty Images Everyone has the Jets in the quarterback market, either drafting one with the second overall choice or trading for one. Deshaun Watson reportedly prefers playing for Robert Saleh and in the New York market, if the Texans submit to the quarterback’s request to trade him. But what...

USA TODAY Sports During new Jets coach Robert Saleh’s recent visit to PFT Live, a topic emerged regarding the challenge he was facing a year ago, as the 49ers defensive coordinator: Stopping Patrick Mahomes. Saleh was asked for the advice he’d give to Tampa Bay defensive linemen tasked with...

Getty Images Former Jets defensive line coach Andre Carter is following Daronte Jones to LSU, Bruce Feldman of TheAthletic.com reports. Carter will serve in the same position in Baton Rouge. Carter has spent the past three seasons in the NFL. He was assistant defensive line coach with the...

Getty Images The Texans have settled on their next head coach, but David Culley’s imminent hiring doesn’t appear to have swayed quarterback Deshaun Watson‘s feelings about the team. According to multiple reports, Watson has formally requested a trade away from Houston. PFT has confirmed, via a...

Getty Images The Philadelphia Eagles and New York Jets both have reached out to the San Francisco 49ers to interview assistant special teams coach Michael Clay for positions on their staffs, according to Matt Barrows of TheAthletic.com. The Eagles are looking to fill a vacancy created by Dave...

Getty Images Someone from TheAtlhetic.com says that former University of Tennessee coach Jeremy Pruitt will be joining the New York Jets’ coaching staff. Someone else from TheAthletic.com says that Pruitt won’t be joining the Jets. Someone not connected to TheAthletic.com confirms that Pruitt...

Getty Images When it comes to potential interest in Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, the glass is currently two-thirds empty. That’s the obvious import of the news that a third of the league has reached out to the Lions. A third of the league. Ten teams. For a 32-year-old franchise...

Getty Images Woody Johnson’s term as the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom came to an end last week and he’s now back to his role as the principal owner of the Jets. Johnson’s brother Christopher ran the Jets during Johnson’s time abroad and Johnson offered thanks for that work in...

Getty Images Robert Saleh’s first Jets coaching staff is continuing to take shape. Saleh will retain Brant Boyer as special teams coordinator, according to Tom Pelissero of NFL media. Boyer has been with New York since 2016, when Todd Bowles was the team’s head coach. Boyer has now survived...

Getty Images It’s been suggested that Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson wants to play for the Dolphins. Reportedly, there’s another team in the AFC East even higher on his lift. Armando Salguero of the Miami Herald reports that Watson’s No. 1 choice is the Jets. “Watson this week told people...

Getty Images The Lions have interviewed Raiders senior offensive assistant John Morton for their offensive coordinator position, Vinny Bonsignore of the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. The Lions hired Dan Campbell as head coach earlier this week. They also have shown interest in Steelers...

USA TODAY Sports It’s business suit season in the NFL. It shouldn’t be. When coaches are hired to run NFL teams, they show up for their introductory press conferences in suits. That’s the way it is, because that’s the way it’s always been. But why does it have to keep being that way? Coaches...