{"id":538330,"date":"2026-03-22T09:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T09:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/538330\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T09:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T09:38:10","slug":"wink-jets-bisaccia-broncos-eagles-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/538330\/","title":{"rendered":"Wink, Jets, Bisaccia, Broncos, Eagles, Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former NFL defensive coordinator Don \u201cWink\u201d Martindale was a strong candidate to take the same role with the Jets this offseason. Martindale was the only coach to fly in for an interview and meet with the Jets twice, but talks fell apart after head coach Aaron Glenn decided he would rather call the plays than allow someone else to do it for the second straight year. Glenn wound up hiring first-time coordinator Brian Duker, the ninth and final candidate to interview for the position. Addressing the Jets\u2019 DC choice with Pat Leonard of the New York Daily News<\/a>, Martindale implied it was not Glenn\u2019s call.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was close. I\u2019ve always respected and I like Aaron Glenn. He\u2019s a good dude, and we think a lot alike on a lot of similar things defensively,\u201d Martindale said. \u201cBut just to be honest with you, I think it was one of those decisions that was out of his hands, and we\u2019ll just leave it at that. But that\u2019s OK. Wherever you\u2019re at is where you\u2019re supposed to be.\u201d <\/p>\n

It would be easy to infer from Martindale\u2019s comments that owner Woody Johnson meddled in the hiring process. Regardless, it will primarily be up to Glenn to turn the Jets\u2019 defense around in 2026. With Steve Wilks and then Chris Harris in charge last year, the unit ranked 31st in scoring and somehow failed to intercept a single pass.<\/p>\n

In other coaching news\u2026<\/p>\n

Clemson hired<\/a> longtime NFL special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia for the same job earlier this month. Bisaccia has previous experience at Clemson, where he coached special teams and running backs from 1994-98. The 65-year-old spent the past four seasons running the Packers\u2019 special teams unit, leaving them surprised<\/a> when he stepped down in February. Bisaccia has also been an ST coordinator with the Raiders, Chargers and Cowboys. After Jon Gruden\u2018s resignation in 2021, Bisaccia took over as the Raiders\u2019 interim head coach and led them to a 7-5 record. The Raiders earned their most recent playoff berth under Bisaccia, but they did not promote him to the full-time post after the season. They instead hired Josh McDaniels, who stumbled to a 9-16 mark during his year and a half in Las Vegas.
\nAs part of an NFL career that spanned from 2014-24, former receiver Willie Snead spent three seasons playing for Sean Payton in New Orleans. The two are reuniting in Denver in 2026. Payton, now the Broncos\u2019 head coach, hired Snead in an offensive quality control role, per Mike Klis of 9News<\/a>. Payton also promoted Chris Morgan from assistant offensive line coach to O-line coach and added former NFL linebacker Zaviar Gooden as an assistant strength and conditioning coach (via Tom Pelissero of NFL Network<\/a> and Aaron Wilson of KPRC 2<\/a>).
\nBriefly an Eagles quarterback in 2011, Jerrod Johnson interviewed twice for their offensive coordinator vacancy in January. The job went to Sean Mannion, but the Eagles still added Johnson to their staff earlier this month (via Dave Zangaro of NBC Sports Philadelphia<\/a>). After a three-year run as the Texans\u2019 QBs coach, Johnson will serve as senior offensive assistant\/special projects for the head coach in Philadelphia.
\nTee Martin was on the Ravens\u2019 staff for the past half-decade, working as John Harbaugh\u2018s wide receivers coach for two years and then his quarterbacks coach for three. New head coach Jesse Minter did not retain Martin, who is now joining Lane Kiffin\u2018s LSU staff as an offensive analyst, insider Jordan Schultz<\/a> reports. Martin, a former national title-winning QB at Tennessee, garnered over a decade of experience coaching at the college level before he moved to Baltimore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NFL defensive coordinator Don \u201cWink\u201d Martindale was a strong candidate to take the same role with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[28326,241194,7820,180091,241195,5702,349,1239,181063,99,238830,241196,241197],"class_list":["post-538330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-aaron-glenn","tag-chris-morgan","tag-denver-broncos","tag-don-martindale","tag-jerrod-johnson","tag-new-york-jets","tag-nfl","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-rich-bisaccia","tag-sports","tag-tee-martin","tag-willie-snead","tag-zaviar-gooden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}