The Jets have change into Lions east since hiring Aaron Glenn as head coach in January.
Gang Inexperienced is making an attempt to steal among the magic that made Detroit the No. 1 seed within the NFC final 12 months.
An enormous a part of that’s new offensive coordinator Tanner Engstrand.
The 42-year-old was the Lions’ passing sport coordinator for the previous three years, serving as Ben Johnson’s right-hand man in an offense that was No. 1 in factors and No. 2 in yards final 12 months.
Now, Engstrand involves the Jets, who’ve been offensively challenged for a lot of the previous 15 years.
He’s the eleventh play caller the Jets have had in that span.
Nobody has lasted greater than two years within the job since Brian Schottenhemier was fired following the 2011 season.
Engstrand spoke to the media Thursday for the primary time since he was employed.
He laid out his imaginative and prescient for the offense.
“I feel we wish to play quick,” Engstrand. “We wish to be bodily. We wish to be aggressive. We wish to be explosive. We wish to be detailed. We wish that to point out up on tape each week. When any person seems to be at our tape, we would like these issues to point out up, and that’s what we’re going to shoot for.”
That sounds nice in Could.
Lots of his predecessors mentioned one thing comparable.
The issues often are available September-January.
That is the primary time Engstrand may have known as performs since a 2019 stint within the XFL because the offensive coordinator of the DC Defenders.
Engstrand has by no means been an NFL offensive coordinator earlier than, however he served because the OC for the College of San Diego from 2011-17.
Engstrand mentioned he’s prepared for this opportunity.
“100%, completely prepared,” he mentioned. “I’m excited to be in it. I’ve been in a coordinator position earlier than at a number of totally different locations, clearly not within the NFL. However I feel 9 years or one thing like that, so I really feel 100% assured. I’m excited for this chance.”
Like all offensive coordinators, Engstrand’s success is tied to his quarterback.
On this occasion, that’s Justin Fields, who the Jets signed in March as a free agent.
“He’s only a proficient particular person in all sides,” Engstrand mentioned of Fields. “He’s clearly a bodily proficient participant. Everyone talks in regards to the operating. Effectively, the man’s obtained an arm, too, and he does an awesome job with that. Mentally, he’s phenomenal. He’s been completely phenomenal thus far, and we anticipate extra out of that. There’s simply numerous issues that you are able to do with that kind of participant that’s going to place stress on a protection and make that defensive coordinator keep up late at evening as we get going into this factor.”
Fields mentioned he has hung out finding out the Lions offense and what quarterback Jared Goff did there.
Fields mentioned he has been impressed by Engstrand.
“Simply speaking to him, you may inform he’s actually good,” Fields mentioned. “He is aware of what he’s doing. I feel he’s very detailed with putting in the performs and issues like that, particularly within the restricted time that we now have now. He places loads on the blokes’ plate, our plate, however I feel in the long term it is going to assist us.”
Past Fields, Engstrand shall be counting on playmakers Breece Corridor and Garrett Wilson, two gamers he spoke extremely about Thursday.
“That could be a blessing to come back into a spot and have already got weapons in place,” Engstrand mentioned. “Breece, he’s proven in his profession that he can run the soccer — whether or not it’s inside, between the tackles, whether or not it’s outdoors and within the cross sport, he’s caught a ton of passes in his profession, which could be very useful for us. Garrett has proven to be an explosive participant. We’re going to hopefully proceed to try this. I do know A.G. talked about, ‘Hey, what are we going to do with Garrett? We’re going to present him the ball as a lot as we will.’ You recognize what? I’m in on it. I really feel actually good about these guys.”
