The New York Jets interviewed former Washington and Carolina coach Ron Rivera on Thursday, the primary recognized head teaching candidate to fulfill with the crew.
ESPN analyst and former NFL security Louis Riddick additionally interviewed with the crew for his or her common supervisor emptiness. Riddick, who beforehand labored within the entrance places of work of Washington and Philadelphia, is the fourth recognized GM candidate to fulfill with the Jets.
Rivera went 26-40-1 throughout a four-year stint with the Commanders, main Washington to the playoffs throughout his first season with the crew in 2020. He was fired final January after a 4-13 season.
Rivera, who turns 63 subsequent Tuesday, is the one coach in NFL historical past to have led groups with dropping data to the playoffs greater than as soon as, having achieved so with Carolina (7-8-1) in 2014 and Washington (7-9) in 2020.
He led the Panthers to the postseason 4 instances throughout his tenure in Carolina from 2011 to 2019, together with a Tremendous Bowl look within the 2015 season when the crew went 15-1 within the common season and ultimately misplaced to Denver within the title recreation.
Nicknamed “Riverboat Ron” for his aggressive choices on the sector, Rivera has a profession document of 105-108-2, together with 3-5 within the playoffs.
He performed in 137 video games, together with 56 begins, throughout a nine-year enjoying profession with Chicago the place he was a linebacker on the Bears crew that gained the Tremendous Bowl through the 1985 season behind its distinctive “46” protection beneath coach Mike Ditka and coordinator Buddy Ryan.
Rivera served as an assistant for the Chargers and Bears earlier than changing into a head coach.
The Jets fired coach Robert Saleh on Oct. 7 and have gone 2-9 beneath interim coach Jeff Ulbrich. Former Jets coach Rex Ryan can be amongst these anticipated to interview with the crew.
The New York Jets fired head coach Robert Saleh after beginning the 2024 season 2-3.
New York, which fired Joe Douglas in November, has additionally interviewed Senior Bowl govt director Jim Nagy, former Atlanta Falcons GM Thomas Dimitroff and former Tennessee Titans GM Jon Robinson for the GM job.
The 55-year-old Riddick joined ESPN in 2013 and serves as an NFL and faculty soccer analyst on the community and ABC. He interviewed with Detroit and Houston for his or her GM openings through the 2020 offseason.
Riddick, a ninth-round decide by San Francisco within the 1991 draft out of Pittsburgh, had 155 tackles and two sacks throughout six NFL seasons with the Falcons, Browns and Raiders.
