F.Chowds Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 New York Jets @nyjets39m Jets GM John Idzik has announced this morning additions/changes to the Jets' football staff ... New York Jets @nyjets39m Matt Bazirgan has been named Assistant Director of Pro Personnel. Rod Graves has been named Senior Director of Football Administration... New York Jets @nyjets39m Four have been named Jets College Area Scouts: David Boller, Aaron Glenn, David Hinson & Christopher Prescott... New York Jets @nyjets39m Rick Courtright has been named NFS College Scout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoxJet Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 Jets | Rick Courtright hired Mon, 10 Jun 2013 08:06:15 -0700 The New York Jets named Rick Courtright NFS college scout. Comment | Source: Twitter | Share: Jets | Rod Graves hired Mon, 10 Jun 2013 07:37:30 -0700 The New York Jets named Rod Graves senior director of football administration. Comment | Source: The Baltimore Sun - Aaron Wilson | Share: Jets | Matt Bazirgan hired Mon, 10 Jun 2013 07:33:49 -0700 The New York Jets named Matt Bazirgan assistant director of pro personnel. Comment | Source: The Baltimore Sun - Aaron Wilson | Share: Read more: http://www.kffl.com/hotw/nfl#ixzz2VpIfreW6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F.Chowds Posted June 10, 2013 Author Share Posted June 10, 2013 So far this offseason, the Jets have lost their assistant director of player personnel, JoJo Wooden, to the Chargers. They let go of director of football administration Ari Nissim and assistant general manager Scott Cohen. Assistant director of college scouting, Mike Davis and college scout Joe Bommarito were also fired. Change was expected under new GM John Idzik, who presumably wanted some of his own people in place. Today, those names were made official. The Jets announced the hiring of former Cardinals GM Rod Graves to be the team's senior director of football administration. Matt Bazirgan, who has worked with the Jets for the past decade, will move from personnel scout to assistant director of pro personnel. David Boller, Aaron Glenn, David Hinson and Christopher Prescott were named area scouts, and Rick Courtright was named the team's NFS college scout. Idzik was Graves' director of football ops from 2004-07 in Arizona before taking a job with the Seahawks. Graves' background is almost exclusively in scouting, which will pair nicely with Idzik's work on the administrative side of the game. Graves began his career in the early 80's as a regional scout for the USFL’s Philadelphia Stars before rising through the Bears organization in their personnel department. Bazirgan began his NFL career with the Jets, starting as a pro personnel intern and college assistant his first year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOJOTOWNSELL Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 They also names Aaron Glenn a college scout....nice to hear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faba Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 Nice Aaron Glenn back in the organization. Idzik molding his team over time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unbanmadmike1 Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 Anyone else worried that we just hired the guy who built the worst QB situation in the NFL this side of the Jets last year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flgreen Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 Jets hire ex-Cards GM Rod Graves Updated: June 10, 2013, 11:30 AM ET By Rich Cimini | ESPNNewYork.com The New York Jets, continuing to restructure their front office under new general manager John Idzik, hired former Arizona Cardinals GM Rod Graves Monday as the senior director of football administration. It will be a role reversal for Graves, who served as Idzik's boss in Arizona from 2004 to 2007. The two remained close, and it was reported a month ago that Idzik was targeting Graves for a position. They met as ball boys for the Philadelphia Eagles. Graves was fired this offseason by the Cardinals after a 5-11 season, their third straight year out of the playoffs. He spent 16 years with the organization, the last nine in charge of the football operation. He had one year remaining on his contract. Graves has a scouting background, so he should be a good complement to Idzik, who came up through the ranks primarily as a contract negotiator and cap expert. Since replacing Mike Tannenbaum, who was fired after the season, Idzik has overhauled the front office, the scouting department and the roster. The Jets parted ways with three executives, including assistant general manager Scott Cohen. Graves will step into the role of second in command. The Jets also announced the hiring of Matt Bazirgan as the assistant director of pro personnel. Previously, he was an area scout. Rick Courtright was named the national college scout. Idzik also had to replace four college scouts, two of whom were let go. He named four new scouts, including former Jets and Houston Texans cornerback Aaron Glenn. He spent last season with the Jets as a pro scout. The other new scouts are David Boller, David Hinson and Christopher Prescott. Of Tannenbaum's closest advisers, only three survived the front-office shakeup, including former GM and current senior personnel executive Terry Bradway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faba Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 Bradway has inside dirt on Woody to survive it all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleedin Green Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 Bradway has inside dirt on Woody to survive it all Who knows. The truth is that, as much as we may have all hated him as GM, I've never seen an unkind word about Bradway as a scout from any league sources. The reports all seem to agree that's what he's really suited to do and, at this point in his career, he seems to be more than happy to stay at that level. If that's really all true, then I think it's actually a positive thing that Idzik is willing to keep him around and not get himself too worked up with Bradway's history with the team. Of course who really knows to what degree Bradway was or wasn't involved with some of the Jets' best and worst draft decisions during Tanny's time in charge, but you figure Idzik has to have a pretty good feel for him after they went through this year's draft together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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