The Jets officially announced late Friday afternoon the moves within their front office, the most prominent of which was the hiring of Scott Cohen as assistant general manager, that first broke May 30. Additionally there are some new titles within the organization -- Joey Clinkscales is now vice president of college scouting, Terry Bradway is the senior personnel executive, Michael Davis is the assistant director of college scouting, Tim Tubito is the director of video, Rich Gentile is the senior director of broadcasting and multimedia production and Steve Scarnecchia is now the director of multimedia production. The Jets also announced - though this was confirmed by a source May 30 as well - that JoJo Wooden's contract as the team’s assistant director of player personnel had been extended.
The most significant of these moves is the addition of Cohen. Cohen spent the last seven seasons as the Eagles' director of pro player personnel, an area of the Jets' organization GM Mike Tannenbaum had wanted to strengthen.
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Sorry, but the most significant move listed here is Joey Clinkscales getting a nice new fancy title and pay-grade. Making sure that Joey stays a part of the Jets is a move that has some long-term payoff. If the team tried to keep him as 'just a scout' they'd have lost him to another organization. Clinkscales seems to me to be on 'squared away' mofo. I attribute a lot of the Jets recent success in the drafts to Joey. Great move.
erik, the last three posts are not even worth looking.
Boland, I'm loving that my questions are answered in the blog itself for all to see (since we know a good percentage of the Earth's population reads your blog). One thing I'd never thought I'd say is that the Jets, right now, have New York's enviable tight end situation. Sheesh.
Mike, ONLY the last three? I'm doing better than I thought.
Bryan, don't get used to it. Seriously, re: comparing the Shockey and Baker situations. I had the same thought -- that the Jets situation doesn't look as bad. It's not good, but not as bad.
Boland: What, no pic of hot women on front-office re-shuffling post?
As for the tight ends situation, here's the difference: The Giants have something of value in Shockey, and they can get a second-round pick. With Baker, Jets can get a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich for all he's worth. With Keller and Franks in the house, Baker is worth nothin'.
Hey Boland, any chance the Jets take a look at Chris Simms if he gets cut? I mean why not? He's got the upside, has some experience, there wouldn't be much of a risk if he got cut. I'd rather see him getting preseason snaps instead of Brett Ratliff.
Though its not any definite he'll get cut. If not, i'd even take a 6th round pick flyer on him, not sure if the Bucs would, but I would from the Jets perspective.
dmb88886, interesting thought, though I'd have to say no based on two things: first, one could argue that in the two-day minicamp, Ratliff actually looked the best of the Jets QBs. Now, he was working with the third team and I'm not remotely suggesting he's on par with Clemens and Pennington, but Ratliff showed a strong and mostly accurate arm. Again, this was during the minicamp; his OTAs were not as good but there seems to be some ability there. Second, Erik Ainge, whom I talked about in the above post, presumably will be ready for training camp and the Jets are anxious to see him get some reps. What would be interesting is, looking longer term here, if Clemens wins the job and Pennington were to get traded/released [I don't see that happening btw] because he was unhappy, that would leave the Jets with to say the least, an inexperienced backup and a guy like Simms would potentially be attractive.