The Jets are entering an important offseason after firing both their head coach, Robert Saleh, and their general manager, Joe Douglas, midseason. The team will open up their search to fill both positions in the offseason, and according to Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated, owner Woody Johnson is open to building around either position in their move forward. 
In 2019, the Jets hired Douglas as their new general manager. Douglas inherited new head coach Adam Gase, who had been hired a few months prior. That marriage was a short-lived one, and Douglas replaced Gase with Saleh. Before them, the Jets hired former general manager Mike Maccagnan and former head coach Todd Bowles in back-to-back days, not allowing Maccagnan to take part in the coaching search. In the years before that, the Jets went back and forth, sticking with former general manager Mike Tannenbaum before firing him while retaining head coach Rex Ryan.
The point here is that there has not been a ton of synchronicity between the front office and coaching staff in New York in a very long time. The Jets seems to hire one without much consultation of the other and expect the two sides to work together in bringing the team back to relevance. The report from Breer seems to indicate a change in such thinking.
Johnson, along with consultants Tannenbaum and Rick Spielman, have communicated that they’re open to hiring a general manager and building around him or hiring a coach and building around them. Their ultimate goal is “harmony.” Instead of forcing a square peg into a round hole, New York is making a point of finding the perfect peg for the perfectly corresponding hole.
This seems to indicate that the team will need to prioritize one candidate search over the other. Unless they happen into a perfect situation wherein two matching candidates line themselves into interviews around the same time, the Jets will need to hire either a head coach or a general manager first then find the harmonizing candidate for the other position. If they rush into these decisions, they could fall into the similar incongruous mistakes they’ve made in the past.
Additionally, they would like their candidates to have some understanding of the New York/northeast market and the challenges that come along with it. This could make Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn a perfect candidate. Glenn has been a popular name for the upcoming head coaching market, and New York would likely have competition for his services. Glenn, though, spent two years as a personnel scout for the Jets, so he would have that New York knowledge and the ability to discern what makes a good general manager.
Regardless, there’s plenty of work to be done in the searches to fill both positions for the Jets. It’s good to hear that they have intentions of finding a complimentary pair, but based on a difficult past, we may have to see it in order to believe it.
If they want to build a “structure” around the current organization, I would suggest an outhouse.
That’s close, but in current times we’ll probably have to settle for a Porta-Potty 🙂
Charitable choice when gallows or guillotine or dunk tank are also structure options.
The only thing funnier than Woody Johnson deciding it’s a good idea to find harmony between the two most important roles in his organization (outside of the guys taking the field) is how terribly he will screw it up. The guy couldn’t change a battery without slipping on a banana peel and splitting his pants.
Reading about how dumb the Jets are never gets old.
The lowly jets have important year, every few years. What a spectacle. Wasn’t Willie Joe the last decent quarterback this franchise had ? Wow ! Maybe it’s time to relocate. What a embarrassment.
Woody Johnson will solve the “synchronicity” problem by hiring members of the Police (English rock band).
He’ll accidentally hire Scrantonicity.
Woody will hire Rex to deflect some negativity from himself
I doubt you could find an NHL team that would expect Rex capable of deflecting anything.