Jon Gruden Being Linked To Jets’ Head Coach Job Might Turn Their Fans ‘Into The Joker’ Once And For All

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Staring down the barrel of a 13-year-long playoff drought soon extending to 14 years — the longest in the four major professional American sports leagues — the New York Jets are also on the verge of blowing up their entire team following the abject failure that has been the Aaron Rodgers era. Since trading for Rodgers in April 2023, the Jets have just three wins and an endless pile of headlines and misery to show for it.

Given that the Jets are likely to jettison general manager Joe Douglas after already canning head coach Robert Saleh, the Jets are going to be in the market for both a new head coach and GM this offseason, in addition to likely having to look for a quarterback given that Aaron Rodgers seems to have one foot in retirement (whether he realizes it or not).

While it’s only Week 11 of the NFL season, the rumor mill for who the Jets may go after in the offseason is already heating up, and one name being linked to the job will surely turn some Jets fans into the Joker.

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According to reports from uSTADIUM, former Las Vegas Raiders and Tampa Bay Bucs head coach Jon Gruden is “a name being linked” to the Jets’ soon-to-be-vacant head-coaching job (current HC Jeff Ulbrich is serving in an interim role and will undoubtedly be canned once the season ends).

Jon Gruden is a name being linked to the #Jets.

Jets fans would you hate it?@Frankievitz and @RyanMSampson talked about it on @nypostsports: https://t.co/fu4ZuB3vtp pic.twitter.com/CWvpJeNAgL

— uSTADIUM (@uSTADIUM) November 12, 2024

Gruden — who has been going viral in recent months for his borderline sadistic NFL breakdowns on social media in which he stares into a camera and screams the names of players and their stats before bopping to an original beat that exclaims “Got me feeling nicey” —  was last seen in the NFL as the head coach of the Raiders from 2018 to 2021 before he was ultimately fired following the exposure of racist, misogynistic, and homophobic emails he sent between 2011 and 2018.

While Gruden did win a Super Bowl in 2002 with the Bucs (although many will argue it was with Tony Dungy’s players), he hasn’t coached a team to a winning record in the NFL since the first year of the Obama administration, when the Bucs finished 9-7.