Executive VP & General Manager Candidate: John Spytek

Edition #755

☀️ Good Morning ☕

Welcome to purgatory. The Jets have made the changes, they’re still a bad football team. We now have to watch them for another month, where they will almost certainly do just enough to put themselves outside the running for the top quarterbacks in the 2024 draft, because that’s what we do.

Aaron Rodgers said on Pat McAfee that his goal coming back from his Achilles injury was to play every game this season, and it seems as though he’ll get his wish. It won’t be a winning season, it won’t be a successful season, in fact it’ll go down as one of the most disappointing in Jets history.

Roll on the end of the season.

🟢 Aaron was asked a question on Pat McAfee about ownership showing support for a GM and while the Jets were not mentioned directly, read between the lines: "To change a culture, to change a program, takes time. And it takes patience, and a lot of ownership around the league doesn't have the patience to let that thing go through."

⚫ Apparently there is a three-part documentary series coming out about Aaron Rodgers on Netflix this month called “Enigma”. I know it’s kind of my job to watch everything about the Jets, but I just can’t bring myself to watch that. Someone else will need to let me know what it’s like.

🟢 The San Francisco 49ers claimed Izzy Abanikanda off of waivers from the Jets. The 49ers always seem capable of maximising a players potential, so it’ll be interesting to see how he develops over the coming weeks, especially as their RB room has been decimated by injuries.

The only thing that will get me through this season is knowing that there are wholesale changes coming.

Maybe we pick the wrong GM, the wrong HC, the wrong QB, but it can’t get much worse than it is right now and a new regime will be given time and some patience.

There’s a sense of refreshment with a new beginning and I’m ready to say goodbye to this ill-advised tango with Aaron Rodgers.

So far we’ve looked at two potential GM candidates and today we’ll look at #3.

First it was Ray Agnew, the assistant GM over in Detroit and he’s still my #1 pick to lead this team forward. If you missed that piece you can read it below:

Executive VP Candidate: Ray Agnew

After we focused on Ray we turned our attention to Ed Dodds, who’s currently serving as the assistant GM over in Indianapolis where the Colts sit at 6-7 in the thick of the AFC South race. That piece is right here.

Executive VP & General Manager Candidate: Ed Dodds

Today we turn our attention to another candidate who’s currently in an assistant role: John Spytek of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He hasn’t been coveted like Agnew and Dodds, but he’s quickly climbing up the NFL ranks. Tampa have been ravaged with injuries this season, but they’ve still managed to climb to 6-6 on the back of a 2-game winning streak and are tied for 1st place with the Atlanta Falcons in the NFC South.

Spytek has spent 9 years with Tampa Bay and 2 years as their assistant GM under Jason Licht who came up through the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles front offices and as such is highly regarded.