{"id":27610,"date":"2015-01-23T16:19:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T20:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=27610"},"modified":"2022-04-01T03:08:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T07:08:33","slug":"rodgers-on-board-as-defensive-coordinator-new-york-jets-todd-bowles-woody-johnson-kacy-rodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2015\/01\/23\/rodgers-on-board-as-defensive-coordinator-new-york-jets-todd-bowles-woody-johnson-kacy-rodgers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodgers on Board as Defensive Coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a much anticipated coaching move, the New York Jets announced today that former Miami Dolphins defensive line coach Kacy Rodgers will be joining Todd Bowles&#8217; staff filling the role of defensive coordinator.\u00a0 It will be the Rodgers&#8217; first attempt at running his own defense having been a defensive line coach with both the Cowboys and Dolphins since 2003 when he arrived in Dallas and started out at a defensive tackle coach.<\/p>\n<p>The 45 year old Tennessee native played his college football the University of Tennessee.\u00a0 After going undrafted in 1992, Rodgers spent two seasons in the NFL with the Pittsburgh Steelers.<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers has coached some of the top defensive lines in the NFL during his time in Miami.\u00a0 Since taking his current position with the Dolphins in 2008, Miami has totaled<a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/new-york\/jets\/post\/_\/id\/48588\/source-bowles-eyes-kacy-rodgers-for-defensive-coordinator\"> 287 sacks<\/a>, good enough for third in the NFL during that time.<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers worked for Dolphins Head Coach Tony Sparano when he joined the team in 2008, and\u00a0coached side-by-side with Todd Bowles from 2009-2011 before Bowles moved on to Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Given their history and shared interest in running a defense, one would expect the pair to transition smoothly into their new roles with the Jets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a much anticipated coaching move, the New York Jets announced today that former Miami Dolphins defensive line coach Kacy Rodgers will be joining Todd Bowles&#8217; staff filling the role of defensive coordinator.\u00a0 It will be the Rodgers&#8217; first attempt at running his own defense having been a defensive line coach with both the Cowboys [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":27655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1337,213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-home-slider","8":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Rodgers_Kacy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-7bk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27613,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27610\/revisions\/27613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}