The Jets yesterday made several assistant coaching hirings that appear to have closed out the majority of Rex Ryan's staff other than a quality control coach or two.
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The Jets hired Kerry Locklin as their new defensive line coach, and they hired Matt Cavanaugh as their quarterbacks coach. The Jets also said they're retaining Mike Devlin as an assistant offensive line/tight ends coach, and they hired John DeFilippo as Cavanaugh's assistant with the quarterbacks.
In an ironic twist, DeFilippo is the son of Boston College athletic director Gene DeFilippo, who fired Eagles' head coach Jeff Jagodzinski for interviewing for the Jets' head-coaching job last month.
Locklin had left Fresno State two weeks ago to become Kansas' defensive line coach, but now joins the Jets. He spent nine seasons as the defensive line coach at Fresno State. He also has coached at Eastern Michigan (1995-1999), Morehead State (1990-93), Utah (1989) and Western New Mexico (1988) and for Shreveport in the CFL (1994).
Devlin returns for his fourth season with the Jets. Before joining the Jets, Devlin coached in college at Toledo (2004-05) and in the NFL at Arizona (2000-03) after a seven-year playing career with the Bills and Cardinals.
DeFilippo coached quarterbacks for the past two years with the Raiders and previously was a quality control coach with the Giants.
