FILE – Denver Broncos head coach Nathaniel Hackett looks on before an NFL football game against the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022, in Denver. The New York Jets have hired former Denver Broncos coach Nathaniel Hackett as their offensive coordinator. The team announced the hiring Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023, of the 43-year-old Hackett, who replaces Mike LaFleur after coach Robert Saleh and the Jets interviewed at least 15 candidates for the vacancy. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey, File)
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Not everyone has been a fan of what the New York Jets have done this offseason.
A new offensive coordinator, the acquisition of a Hall-of-Fame quarterback, and several key depth signings weren’t enough to stave off the frustration of another long-time NFL head coach.
Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton branded newly-hired Jets’ OC Nathaniel Hackett’s 2022 season in charge of the Broncos as possibly “one of the worst coaching jobs in the history of the NFL,” while speaking to USA Today Thursday.
The comments come a year after the Broncos went 4-11 with Hackett at the helm and 5-12 overall. They missed the playoffs and finished last in the AFC West. Denver had the worst offense in football last year even with Russell Wilson at quarterback with several players publicly complaining about the coach’s tenure. It all boiled down to Hackett being fired before the end of his first season with a team: something that rarely happens in the NFL.
“It doesn’t happen often where an NFL team or organization gets embarrassed,” Payton said.“And that happened here. Part of it was their own fault, relative to spending so much fucking time trying to win the offseason — the P.R., the pomp and circumstance, marching people around, and all this stuff. Everything I heard about last season, we’re doing the opposite,” Payton said.
Payton did not leave his critiques solely towards the Jets’ new offensive staff. With New York being “forced” onto…
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