Nathaniel Hackett responds to rumors Jets were looking to hire other coaches on offense | SNY

How does it feel to have number 8 back in the house? Great. Yeah, he's a true professional. He's the leader of our team and uh, it's fun to have him out there and watch him throw the ball around to those guys and Coach them up. He does a great job taking care of his body. That's something that he works on a lot and uh, you see it going out there and executing today. What do you like about coral in the draft? Run after the catch. I think we can all agree to that. Uh, it's a special trait that he has we got to find a way to get the ball in his hands. There's a lot of change right now. It's you know, the very very beginning just 2 days into it and we're getting to know all the guys. We've got a lot of Veteran presence and we just got to kind of figure out all the things that they do well and and continue to do that go ahead and the guy like Tyler Smith just kind of what that does for your office from a leadership role experience role. I mean the guys played a lot of football he's done a really really fine job throughout his whole career and uh, it's great to have a veteran on that left side right. Now. You always want continuity. I mean, it's AC the board on all offense. I think you look as the the season goes on the healthiest teams are usually hitting their stride and doing very well. So, um, but you have to always plan for that. So the more that we can mix and match them just for those instances, uh is very important. But at the same time the longer you can keep the front 5 going together. It's always going to build a strong bond. What did you know about Tyrod Taylor before he came here and what have you learned about him? In touch with that. All right, he's a true Pro. I mean, he's been he's been great, you know, we brought him in and and asked him to do some different things and and I think that he has been uh spectacular in learning him and jumping full bore into it to try to learn some of those things and he's embraced it. Uh, yeah. I remember his first playoff game. I I was my first playoff game as a coordinator back in 174 a long time and always respected his game. I think every year you learn so much every single year you learn so many different things. Uh, we have to continually always be ready for a lot of changes. I think that was 1 of the biggest things last year was, uh, we faced a lot of change, uh, and I look back at it and it was a great opportunity for a lot of guys to get some valuable valuable experience to create more depth for this year. Um, so I think those were a lot of good things not hard to prepare for change. your your your hope you have to look at it and say changes the norm. You have to treat that as the normal and if you get the same 11 out there the whole year. That's that's not normal. How is Alan Lazar holding up? Good job. He he has come and he he's been around quite a bit. Uh, he's a great teacher in the classroom with those guys on the things that we want to accomplish and he's up to this point done a really good job and been able to uh, run some very good routes had a couple good ones yesterday and uh, we just got to keep building on that. What's the next step for Gary? Get a nice rapport with number 8 and uh, he he had a awesome catch today and we just want to get those guys on the same page Gibson and brown. They were 2 guys that got I think more experienced last year and maybe you originally anticipated when they arrived how much did that benefit them this year and how much have you seen them grow and change this year from last? Oh, it's incredible. I mean, you can't replace any opportunity to get actual game time, especially as a young player, uh, you know, X helped us out early, uh, brownley came in a little bit later, but I think those are all things we can grow on because we can watch the tape and we can help detail those things up. It's everything that we have. You know, we go from year 1 when you're teaching a system and they just are trying to figure out where to line up and what route they have to now the details and communication and talking on how to get open and how to work those different concepts. So I think those are very important for those 2 Guys What a healthy Mike Williams. What? What can he do for him? Mike's a been a very good football player for a long time. Uh, he's another guy that we brought in that's got great leadership and a guy that's got a lot of um, a lot of experience and um, you know his vertical threat his 50/50 ball those things. He's always been very very good at and we hope to take advantage of that. In the offseason that that we're being moved about and that eventually not made what of any insight do you have into that? And and what is your mindset coming into the season with the decisions that were made? I think it's you know business as usual. I I look at the whole offseason. I was involved in every single conversation and it was great. And uh, I think you know having Robert around uh being able to work with him has been very good for our offense. Do you feel like Robert still has full confidence in you? Yes. Was he involved or in the office? He's just been around a bunch and it's great when you have that defensive in there, um to kind of tell you some more extra rules things ways that you can attack. Uh, so we spiced some things up, uh verse uh our defense and kind of test them out. So it's it's fun. When did you say you all those conversations? You guys reports of what those were like people that are talking clearly. This is what I would tell you. I don't know what those reports are and I don't know where their socials came from. I know what happened with us and it was great. We had a lot of conversations got to talk with a lot of different people and it's that simple. It's already been addressed. But you talk I'm just you talk to guys that were basically interviewing for a job. We had a lot of changes. So we were talking to a lot of people