Jets face scrutiny after bringing in exec they fired to help find new GM, coach

The New York Jets person brought successful a acquainted look to assistance them with their wide manager and caput coaching search, but it’s a determination that’s baffling immoderate due to the fact that it’s a erstwhile enforcement who the enactment fired years ago.

Former Jets GM Mike Tannenbaum and his "The 33rd Team" were brought successful by Gang Green to assistance them identify, vet and coordinate interviews and candidates for 2 high-level jobs, according to the New York Post.

The Jets are getting a caput commencement compared to different teams that could beryllium successful the aforesaid presumption aft New York fto Joe Douglas spell a fewer weeks aft caput manager Robert Saleh was dismissed from his duties.

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Mike Tannenbaum (Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports/File)

Jets proprietor Woody Johnson volition reportedly oversee the hunt that The 33rd Team volition person a manus in, arsenic good arsenic different Jets executives inactive successful the beforehand office.

Tannenbaum and erstwhile Vikings GM Rick Spielman volition beryllium the "primary representatives" of The 33rd Team, according to the Post, and the second had a accidental successful picking a GM and manager past play for the Washington Commanders. 

The Commanders look to beryllium successful a large spot aft their hires earlier the 2024 campaign, bringing successful Adams Peters arsenic GM and Dan Quinn arsenic their caller caput coach. Washington is presently successful the playoff hunt successful the NFC. 

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The Post reports that The 33rd Team, portion helping retired with the search, volition besides supply studies connected champion hiring practices, information investigation and much from the past 5 years. 

While Spielman helped an enactment past season, Tannenbaum is idiosyncratic who knows what Johnson is looking for personally. He was the Jets’ GM from 2006 to 2012 and oversaw the team’s roster during its past travel to the playoffs.

Tannenbaum was liable for drafting Darrelle Revis, Nick Mangold, D’Brickashaw Ferguson and much Jets that led to those playoff seasons.

However, Tannenbaum’s 15-year tenure with the Jets ended aft the squad missed the playoffs for the 2nd consecutive play successful 2012. And immoderate connected societal media couldn’t recognize wherefore New York would person idiosyncratic they fired implicit a decennary agone assistance them now. 

New York Jets proprietor Woody Johnson, center, then-coach Rex Ryan, left, and then-GM Mike Tannenbaum (Kirby Lee/Image of Sport-USA TODAY Sports/File)

There were adjacent immoderate reasoning Tannenbaum would "just extremity up hiring himself," 1 X idiosyncratic said. 

"This is however dumb the New York Jets proprietor Woody Johnson is," different X idiosyncratic posted. "He is resorting backmost to Mike Tannenbaum again to determine what’s champion for their aboriginal arsenic a franchise. He is beneath mean astatine champion with a 57-55 grounds arsenic the Jets GM."

With Tannenbaum returning to assistance the Jets, immoderate person adjacent suggested the squad get the set backmost unneurotic by hiring Rex Ryan with Tannenbaum going backmost to GM. Ryan did notation connected Barstool Sports’ "Pardon My Take" that helium has "some unfinished concern with that franchise."

Since leaving the Jets, Tannenbaum served arsenic the enforcement vice president of shot operations for the Miami Dolphins earlier joining ESPN arsenic an analyst.

Mike Tannenbaum (Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports/File)

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The Jets person hired 3 GMs since Tannenbaum’s departure: John Izdik, Mike Macaggnan and Douglas, each of whom were incapable to deploy a roster to extremity the team’s playoff drought.

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