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The New York Jets are well under way with their head coaching search, and we have already seen a couple names that the team has already interviewed or is planning on interviewing within the week. One of them was Buffalo Bills offensive coordinator Brian Daboll, who has transformed this Bills team that can now score thirty points a game as well as going toe to toe with one of the best teams in the league. He is well known for developing quarterback Josh Allen into one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL, but he’s had a ton of success in his entire career as coach in the NFL and college football.
Daboll started his coaching career as an offensive assistant at William & Mary in 1997 then moved to Michigan State as a graduate assistant in 1998. He then began his NFL coaching career with the New England Patriots in 2000, where he joined Bill Bellichek as a defensive assistant coach and then got promoted to wide receivers coach in 2002 until 2006. He left the Patriots that offseason and joined the New York Jets that season with Eric Mangini, where he developed Chad Pennington and then coached Brett Favre. He then became the offensive coordinator for the Cleveland Browns from 2009-2010, where the offense was at the bottom of the barrel from the lack of talent the team had.
He then started to turn things around where he had success with the Miami Dolphins, Patriots, and then winning the national championship with the Alabama Crimson Tide as well as a couple Super Bowl titles with the Patriots. Now he has turned the Buffalo Bills into one of the most exciting offenses in the NFL, and now are advancing to the divisional round of the NFL playoffs. What Jets fans will love is the way he had developed Josh Allen into a top 10 quarterback when people thought he was the worst out of his class, and also developed former Jets quarterback Chad Pennington.
I loved the hire of Brian Daboll when he became the offensive coordinator because of his ability to adapt to the players strength, I also thought his play calling was good too. It was up to the players to really execute those plays, in which they did this year. Being a product of one of the best coaches in the game in Bill Belichick and Nick Saban, Daboll has learned a lot from his time in college football as well as the NFL he is my number one candidate to being the head coach for the New York Jets. He’s the type of coach who holds his players accountable and understands the game on both sides of the ball, but also knows how to build a winning culture in an organization.