Jets next move after naming Frank Reich as OC is painfully obvious

The New York Jets have finally brought an end to a very chaotic search for an experienced offensive coordinator, as they have hired former Indianapolis Colts head coach Frank Reich to oversee a unit that needs to put up some points in 2025 to save Aaron Glenn's job.

Reich, who actually was a teammate of Glenn's way back in 1996, spent last season as the interim head coach at Stanford. However, he has a Super Bowl to his name as a coordinator, and he had some success as head coach of the Colts when it came to designing offenses.

Reich was the favorite all along, but the Jets' search for candidates who could rival him brought them to two veteran NFL assistants in former Chargers play-caller Greg Roman and longtime offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell. Both of them are unemployed currently, and the Jets have some assistant openings that need to be filled.

It would be unwise for the Jets to let Reich go into the season without one of these two on staff. If the whole name of the game is experience, why not bring in one of these two to form a 1-2 punch with decades in the league between them?

Jets must hire either Darrell Bevell or Greg Roman after Frank Reich named OC

Roman has proven to be a poor play-calling offensive coordinator in Baltimore and Los Angeles, but one thing that he has done throughout his career is design a creative and effective running game. Roman might fit in well with Glenn's established ethos of being a ground-and-pound team on offense.

Bevell, who had been an offensive coordinator for almost 15 consecutive seasons, bounced between the Vikings, Seahawks, Lions, and Jaguars before spending the last four seasons as quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator with the Miami Dolphins. Under his watch, Tua Tagovailoa had some fairly impressive seasons.

Even though Tanner Engstrand had some potential, a staff of Reich and one of Roman or Bevell paired with some of the fairly impressive offensive pieces the Jets have collected in the last few years may actually lead to New York being a more productive offense than they were last year.

The way in which the Jets got to this point is their usual brand of chaos and disorder, but coming out of this process with Reich is not a bad outcome. By rounding out his staff with more qualified assistants, Glenn can go into 2026 with some better support than he had last year.