The New York Jets strongly backed offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett this week following offseason comments from Sean Payton, head coach of their Week 5 opponents, the Denver Broncos.
"He got thrown under the bus — and then they tried to drag him under the bus," Jets center Connor McGovern told."We wanted to rally around him from the start. He's such a good guy. I don't know how you want to say this — the opportunity he has — but we want to make the most of him being our playcaller.
Said offensive tackle Alijah Vera-Tucker,"We rally behind Hack, regardless. I think this week there may be a little bigger chip on some of the guys' shoulders just because the comments that were made before.""It might have been one of the worst coaching jobs in the history of the NFL. That’s how bad it was," Payton said in the interview of the 2022 Broncos, who went 4-11 before Hackett was fired in December.
Payton did respond to the Jets' defense of Hackett by saying he still had his"FOX hat on and not my coaching hat. ... It was a mistake, obviously. I needed a little bit more filter." A meeting between two 1-3 teams wouldn't ordinarily have a lot of spice, but the Jets' desire to back their offensive coordinator puts a little more interest into this matchup. Had Rodgers not been hurt, who knows how much more heat would have been directed Payton's way.
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