Gregg Williams sent an ill-advised, all-out blitz Sunday, but in the end, he was the only one to get sacked.
The Jets fired Williams on Monday, a day after the defensive coordinator called the blitz that allowed Derek Carr to find Henry Ruggs for the Raiders’ game-winning, 46-yard touchdown pass with five seconds left. The 31-28 loss sunk the Jets to 0-12 on the season and cost the controversial Williams his job late in his second year with the organization.
Coach Adam Gase said it was his decision to fire Williams, but he consulted with general manager Joe Douglas, president Hymie Elhai and CEO Christopher Johnson on Monday morning and they were all in agreement. He spoke for about an hour with Williams, who he said wasn’t happy about the decision.
“I just felt like that was the best thing for our team moving forward,” a somber-sounding Gase said on a conference call Monday afternoon.
“Obviously I wasn’t happy about that call. That was a heartbreaking way for our guys to lose a game. For that to happen in that situation is just — you can’t have that happen.”
Assistant head coach/inside linebackers coach Frank Bush was named the interim defensive coordinator for the final four games of the season. He will take over a unit that ranks 29th in total defense (398.8 yards per game) and 30th in scoring defense (29.4 points per game).
Williams’ departure came after Marcus Maye, a defensive captain, had openly criticized his play call on the decisive touchdown Sunday. The typically mild-mannered Maye repeatedly referred to how the Jets could have had a “better call” during his postgame Zoom with reporters.
Gase, who claimed Maye’s comments “had nothing to do with” Williams’ firing, said he wishes he would have called a timeout before the decisive play.
“I wish I would have [overruled the call when Williams made it],” Gase said. “Sometimes during a game, you’re talking through a bunch of different situations and that comes up. I wish I would have called timeout, but I didn’t.”
The Raiders had the ball at the Jets’ 46-yard line on a third-and-10 with 13 seconds left and no timeouts, trailing 28-24. Williams called a cover-zero blitz, leaving undrafted rookie cornerback Lamar Jackson one-on-one with Ruggs, the speedy first-round pick who used a double move to get open for the winning touchdown.
“The head coach can tell guys what to call whenever they want,” Gase said. “That’s part of the gig. I have not. I hired Gregg because I trusted him to make the right calls and run the defense.”
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