One other day, one other candidate interviewed for the Jets’ vacant normal supervisor place.
On Tuesday, Packers vp of participant personnel Jon-Eric Sullivan spoke to the workforce in regards to the position. He’s the 14th candidate to interview since Jets proprietor Woody Johnson fired Joe Douglas in November.
Sullivan is a well-liked identify throughout this 12 months’s hiring cycle. He’s additionally scheduled to interview with the Raiders for his or her normal supervisor place and met with the Titans on Monday relating to their emptiness.
Sullivan joined the Packers as an intern in 2003. Throughout most of his time with the Packers, he labored alongside present Titans president of soccer operations Chad Brinker.
A 12 months later, Sullivan grew to become Inexperienced Bay’s soccer operations division as a nationwide soccer scout.
Throughout his time with the Packers, Sullivan served as a school scout masking the Central Plains (2008-11) and Southeast (2012-15) areas. After rising via the scouting ranks, Sullivan grew to become the workforce’s vp of participant personnel in 2022. He’s the son of long-time NFL and faculty receivers coach Jerry Sullivan.
The youthful Sullivan has been a liaison between the Packers’ scouting division and normal supervisor Brian Gutekunst. Throughout Sullivan’s tenure with the workforce, Inexperienced Bay has had nice success. With Aaron Rodgers underneath middle, the Packers gained the Tremendous Bowl in 2010.
Lately, Inexperienced Bay has made the playoffs 5 out of the final six years with Rodgers and now Jordan Love at quarterback. This season, the Packers positioned seventh within the NFC after ending 11-6. However they have been defeated by the Eagles throughout the Wild-Card spherical on Sunday.
Throughout Sullivan’s earlier three seasons in Inexperienced Bay, the Packers went 28-23 and reached the postseason twice, together with the divisional spherical in 2023 after defeating the Cowboys within the Wild-Card spherical.
The Jets normal supervisor and training search has been thorough. They’re nonetheless in Spherical 1 of the searches regardless of having a head begin on groups after firing each their normal supervisor and head coach (Robert Saleh) amidst a 5-12 season.
Per week after Johnson fired Douglas, he employed The thirty third Workforce, led by former Jets normal supervisor Mike Tannenbaum, to determine candidates and coordinate interviews.
Thomas Dimitroff, Jon Robinson, Jim Nagy, Louis Riddick, Alec Halaby, Mike Borgonzi, Ray Farmer, Mike Greenberg, Darren Mougey, Lance Newmark, Trey Brown, Chris Spielman, Ryan Grigson have interviewed for the Jets GM job. 9 candidates have interviewed for the Jets teaching emptiness:
Ron Rivera, Mike Vrabel, Rex Ryan, Matt Nagy, Aaron Glenn, Mike Locksley, Steve Spagnuolo, Darren Rizzi, and Jeff Ulbrich. Vrabel was employed because the coach of the Patriots on Jan. 12.
