Callahan interviews, but is it window dressing
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- January
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Bill Callahan won’t be getting a head coaching job anytime soon, unless it’s at Port Chester High School. Not after he ran the Raiders and Nebraska Cornhuskers into the ground. Which means he’s free to focus on his specialty, offensive lines. That is if he still remembers the details after six years away from being a position coach.
Callahan interviewed with the Jets on Wednesday. Though his potential role was unspecified, you have to think it has something to do with the O-line. Which means Mike Devlin and Tony Wise, the two coaches currently in charge of that unit, should be worried.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to either that they might be replaced. The O-line quality fell off this season and the entire offense suffered as a result. Kellen Clemens’s growth was really stunted by being so rushed in the pocket. Step Nos. 1, 2, and 3 to get better next year should be improving the line.
But I’m not sure if you do that by hiring Callahan. I have no problem with Callahan specifically, and if he still knows his stuff there’s no harm in bringing him aboard. But don’t let a coaching change obscure the fact that there’s a severe talent deficiency here. Devlin and Wise shouldn’t be scapegoated for Mike Tanenbaum’s failure to maintain a stable line in the offseason. Adrien Clarke and Anthony Clement ain’t getting it done, folks. There’s no coach out there that could have turned this crew into the Great Wall. So while bringing in Callahan is fine, Tanenbaum can’t stop there.
Sign Alan Faneca, the free agent Pro Bowl guard, and you can hire Bugs Bunny to coach the offensive line.
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on Friday, January 11th, 2008 at 5:26 am by Jake Thomases.
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Jane McManus 
does anybody have a clue as to how many draft choices the J*E*T*S have? And where they are ?
GOOD BYE