Locked On Jets - Daily Podcast On The New York Jets keeps Jets fans up to date on their team. The podcast offers the latest news, analysis, and storylines on the Jets all year long.
John Butchko hosts Locked On Jets. Butchko helped start Gang Green Nation and continues there as an editor and writer. The host is a long-suffering fan. (Most Jets fans are long-suffering, since the team hasn't won a Super Bowl since 1969.) Butchko has followed the team for over three decades. He has had the tortured Jets fan's sense that something bad will happen. When Aaron Rodgers tore his Achilles tendon, Butchko didn't feel as bad for himself as for his even longer-suffering father.
The podcast host empathizes with fellow long-suffering New York Jets fans. One listener wrote an official letter of resignation from being a Jets fan. He sent the letter to Butchko.
The podcast host draws on his knowledge of the current Jets team and the team's history. Before the 2023 NFL Draft, some pundits had the Jets taking a center. John Michael Schmitz was ahead of Joe Tippman in some rankings. Butchko thought Tippman was General Manager Joe Douglas' type of player.
Butchko was right. Douglas drafted Tippman. The podcast host also discussed how the Jets had nineteen straight seasons with a star center. First, they had Kevin Mawae. Then they had Nick Mangold. When the Jets hired Nathaniel Hackett as offensive coordinator, Butchko compared him to Adam Gase. That was the team's former coach. The Jets hired both men shortly after their previous team fired them. Hackett was taking a lesser role, moving from head coach to assistant. Butchko felt that gave Hackett a better chance at a reset. Gase had a disastrous time as Jets coach, starting from his opening press conference. Fans hoped Hackett would have a better time with the team.
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