{"id":53568,"date":"2020-12-07T12:49:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T16:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=53568"},"modified":"2020-12-07T12:58:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T16:58:03","slug":"schefter-ny-jets-fire-gregg-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2020\/12\/07\/schefter-ny-jets-fire-gregg-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Schefter: Jets Fire Gregg Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a lot of discussion about the last second defensive play call by Gregg Williams in the loss to the Las Vegas Raiders yesterday. Williams called a blitz with no safety help and the move backfired. Talk about the Jets &#8220;tanking&#8221; was in full force after the game, did the team try to lose on purpose was the question on everyone&#8217;s mind. With the team sitting at 0 and 12 it has seemed they were waiting until the end of the season to make any coaching changes. At that time they are going to be making wholesale changes which will start at Adam Gase and work their way down.<\/p>\n<p>That all changed today as\u00a0Adam Schefter is reporting that the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.jetnation.com\/topic\/156458-gregg-williams-fired\/\">Jets have fired defensive coordinator Gregg Williams<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jets fired DC Gregg Williams, per source.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1335979435380629507?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Some historical context on the no safety help play call in a Hail Mary situation to end the game.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is from ESPN\u2019s Stats and Info team, \u2066@ESPNStatsInfo\u2069.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s off the charts: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h6fjRE1chC\">pic.twitter.com\/h6fjRE1chC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1335750595190419457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Rich Cimini provides a little more context after Marcus Maye was critical of the play call in the post game press conference.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Williams the first to go. Won&#39;t be the last. A good coach who was dealt a bad hand this year. He lost Adams, Mosley, Williamson and McLendon. Had to play a bunch of kids.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the call yesterday was terrible, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Jets<\/a> are 29th in total D + his own capt (Maye) ripped him.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rich Cimini (@RichCimini) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichCimini\/status\/1335983542342283264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rex Ryan on the Gregg Williams call (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GetUpESPN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GetUpESPN<\/a>): \u201cDumbest call I\u2019ve ever seen. Been around the thing for 58 years, 30 years as a coach. That\u2019s the dumbest call ever. There\u2019s a time and place for Cover-0. That sure ain\u2019t it. It\u2019s just stupid.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Jets<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pvFtL1XgBh\">pic.twitter.com\/pvFtL1XgBh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rich Cimini (@RichCimini) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichCimini\/status\/1335946031113117697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Edit:\u00a0 Connor Hughes is reporting that linebacker coach Frank Bush is going to be named interim defensive coordinator.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Frank Bush will be named the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Jets<\/a> interim defensive coordinator, sources tell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheAthletic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Connor Hughes (@Connor_J_Hughes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Connor_J_Hughes\/status\/1335990998665715716?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a lot of discussion about the last second defensive play call by Gregg Williams in the loss to the Las Vegas Raiders yesterday. Williams called a blitz with no safety help and the move backfired. Talk about the Jets &#8220;tanking&#8221; was in full force after the game, did the team try to lose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":53574,"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":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Gregg-Williams.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-dW0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53568","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53575,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53568\/revisions\/53575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}