Tanner Engstrand not letting inexperience dim imaginative and prescient for Jets’ offense
The Jets have change into Lions east since hiring Aaron Glenn as head coach in January.
Gang Inexperienced is attempting to steal a number of the magic that made Detroit the No. 1 seed within the NFC final yr.
A giant a part of that’s new offensive coordinator Tanner Engstrand.
The 42-year-old was the Lions’ passing sport coordinator for the previous three years, serving as Ben Johnson’s right-hand man in an offense that was No. 1 in factors and No. 2 in yards final yr.
Now, Engstrand involves the Jets, who’ve been offensively challenged for a lot of the previous 15 years.
He’s the eleventh play caller the Jets have had in that span.
Nobody has lasted greater than two years within the job since Brian Schottenhemier was fired following the 2011 season.
Engstrand spoke to the media Thursday for the primary time since he was employed.
He laid out his imaginative and prescient for the offense.
“I feel we wish to play quick,” Engstrand. “We wish to be bodily. We wish to be aggressive. We wish to be explosive. We wish to be detailed. We would like that to indicate up on tape each week. When anyone seems to be at our tape, we wish these issues to indicate up, and that’s what we’re going to shoot for.”
That sounds nice in Could.
A lot of his predecessors stated one thing comparable.
The issues often are available in September-January.
That is the primary time Engstrand could have referred to as performs since a 2019 stint within the XFL because the offensive coordinator of the DC Defenders.
Engstrand has by no means been an NFL offensive coordinator earlier than, however he served because the OC for the College of San Diego from 2011-17.
Engstrand stated he’s prepared for this opportunity.
“One hundred percent, completely prepared,” he stated. “I’m excited to be in it. I’ve been in a coordinator position earlier than at a number of totally different locations, clearly not within the NFL. However I feel 9 years or one thing like that, so I really feel 100% assured. I’m excited for this chance.”
Like all offensive coordinators, Engstrand’s success is tied to his quarterback.
On this occasion, that’s Justin Fields, who the Jets signed in March as a free agent.
“He’s only a proficient particular person in all sides,” Engstrand stated of Fields. “He’s clearly a bodily proficient participant. All people talks concerning the operating. Properly, the man’s obtained an arm, too, and he does an important job with that. Mentally, he’s phenomenal. He’s been completely phenomenal to date, and we anticipate extra out of that. There’s simply plenty of issues that you are able to do with that sort of participant that’s going to place stress on a protection and make that defensive coordinator keep up late at evening as we get going into this factor.”
Fields stated he has hung out learning the Lions offense and what quarterback Jared Goff did there.
Fields stated he has been impressed by Engstrand.
“Simply speaking to him, you possibly can inform he’s actually good,” Fields stated. “He is aware of what he’s doing. I feel he’s very detailed with putting in the performs and issues like that, particularly within the restricted time that we now have now. He places loads on the fellows’ plate, our plate, however I feel in the long term it can assist us.”
Past Fields, Engstrand can be counting on playmakers Breece Corridor and Garrett Wilson, two gamers he spoke extremely about Thursday.
“That may be a blessing to return into a spot and have already got weapons in place,” Engstrand stated. “Breece, he’s proven in his profession that he can run the soccer — whether or not it’s inside, between the tackles, whether or not it’s outdoors and within the move sport, he’s caught a ton of passes in his profession, which could be very useful for us. Garrett has proven to be an explosive participant. We’re going to hopefully proceed to do this. I do know A.G. talked about, ‘Hey, what are we going to do with Garrett? We’re going to offer him the ball as a lot as we will.’ You realize what? I’m in on it. I really feel actually good about these guys.”
