Mike Vrabel Interested in Jets’ Head-Coaching Job Under One Condition

Unlike the Chicago Bears, who have rookie quarterback Caleb Williams and a young team of talented playmakers that are likely awfully appealing to a potential head-coaching candidate, the New York Jets may just be one of the worst jobs in the NFL.

Owner Woody Johnson has rubbed many the wrong way in how he handled firing head coach Robert Saleh and general manager Joe Douglas in-season, and his public dispute with quarterback Aaron Rodgers hasn’t won him any fans either.

With the Jets likely moving on from Rodgers in the offseason and facing a rebuild with a new regime, Johnson has his work cut out in finding a head coach willing to jump into the dumpster fire the Jets are right now and willing to gut out a few rough years to get the team back to playoff contention.

Fortunately for the Jets, there’s a head-coaching candidate out there that already did that once before and may be willing to do it again under one condition, according to Jets insider Rich Cimini of ESPN.

“Many people assume that (Mike) Vrabel wouldn’t even consider the Jets because what’s he going to do, he’s going to call up one of his mentors Bill Belichick and ask him his opinion of the Jets, and we know what Belichick is going to say,” Cimini recently said during his “Flight Desk” podcast.

“He’s going to trash the Jets and say don’t take that job if its offered. But I’ve talked to people who know Vrabel, and he has told friends he would consider the Jets as a possibility as long as he likes the GM that they pick, so he says he doesn’t care what Belichick thinks, he’ll judge the situation based on its own merit.”

Vrabel took over a toiling Tennessee Titans team in 2018 that had just fired Mike Mularkey and looking for a fresh voice. He led the Titans to four straight winning seasons and an AFC Championship game but was fired last season after clashing with then-first-year GM Ran Carthon.

Getting the right fit at GM is something any team considering hiring Vrabel should be weary of as he clashed with both of the GMs he had in Tennessee. Vrabel criticized the roster former Titans GM Jon Robinson built, often taking jabs at him through the media in which he’d say he was coaching the best he could with the players he was given.

Multiple reports indicated that Vrabel and Carthon disagreed over the best way to construct Tennessee’s roster with the latter wanting to do a full rebuild and Vrabel wanting to reload and make another run at the playoffs.