{"id":31676,"date":"2016-02-09T15:52:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T19:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=31676"},"modified":"2016-02-09T15:52:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T19:52:51","slug":"jets-hire-new-assistant-coaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2016\/02\/09\/jets-hire-new-assistant-coaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets Hire New Assistant Coaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Jets announced today that they have hired\\promoted some assistant coaches.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have promoted John Scott Jr. to asst. DL coach, hired Tim Atkins as def. QC coach &amp; hired David Diaz-Infante as asst. OL coach.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New York Jets (@nyjets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nyjets\/status\/697142482874793984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkjets.com\/news\/article-9\/Todd-Bowles-Fills-Three-Coaching-Vacancies\/a81bf865-3820-4567-8cd6-5a6d1065aa0e?campaign=tw\" target=\"_blank\">Randy Lange provides some background information on each coach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Scott<\/strong> came to Bowles&#8217; staff last year and entered the NFL for the first time after serving as a college coach for the past 12 seasons. Among the schools he coached defensive line or outside LBs with were Louisiana\u2013Lafayette \u2014 where he earned his master&#8217;s in education \u2014 and his most recent stop at Texas Tech. He played four seasons at DE at Western Carolina and two seasons for the Greensboro Prowlers in arenafootball2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Diaz-Infante<\/strong> comes to the Jets after a stint in 2013-14 as an offensive assistant with the Arizona Cardinals, where he worked with Bowles. He had a long career as a guard\/center in the NFL (Chargers, 1987, Broncos, 1996-98 and &#8217;01, Eagles, 1999), WLAF (Frankfurt, 1991-92), CFL (Sacramento, 1993-94), and XFL (Las Vegas, 2001), earning two Super Bowl rings with the Broncos.<\/p>\n<p>Following his playing days, he was a TV studio analyst with FSN Rocky Mountain in 2003-04 before joining ESPN in 2004 as a college and high school football analyst. He also served as an analyst for the Broncos radio network from 2005-08.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Atkins<\/strong> comes to the Jets from the Bills, where he was a football operations assistant since 2011. He also had a stop as a staff assistant and defensive assistant with the Dolphins in 2006-07, another as a defensive graduate assistant with Florida Atlantic University, and the 2010 season in defensive quality control with the United Football League.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Jets announced today that they have hired\\promoted some assistant coaches. We have promoted John Scott Jr. to asst. DL coach, hired Tim Atkins as def. QC coach &amp; hired David Diaz-Infante as asst. OL coach. &mdash; New York Jets (@nyjets) February 9, 2016 Randy Lange provides some background information on each coach. 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