The Jets can replace Adam Gase with these 5 coaching candidates

It’s surprising that Staley not only is still an assistant coach with Doug Pederson’s Eagles, but he has generated very little interest on the interview circuit. Staley has worked his way up the coaching ladder, starting off as a special teams coach before moving to running backs coach and, later, assistant head coach.

Pederson is a Super Bowl winner who has consistently made a winner out of Philadelphia despite losing players due to injury at seemingly every turn. The Jets would be wise at add Staley to their team, as he has that perfect blend of schematic innovation, quality control, and experienced leadership that a team in disarray needs.

Whatever Gase’s ability to draw up innovative new plays, those are naught but ash in the hands of team that is either incapable of or unwilling to act out what he is drawing up. Staley would walk into that locker room and start demanding attention from the very first day on the job.

If Staley nails his assistant coaching hires, most notably getting a top defensive coordinator to replace a guy in Gregg Williams that is looking more outdated with each passing day, the Jets can use their massive haul of draft picks to zoom back to contention sooner rather than later. Overlooking him because he isn’t a coordinator would be foolish.