Consultant?

New York Jets owner Woody Johnson is bringing in former Washington Redskins and Houston Texans General Manager Charley Casserly for some consulting work. The only conclusion from this development is that about a week from today the Jets will be making some changes at the front of their organization. That should be a safe assumption as it's not often that an organization brings in a consultant to not make changes.

It's been suspected for a while now that Jets head coach Rex Ryan is on his last days with the team. The same might be true for General Manager John Idzik. Ryan was lucky to have survived last season and the Jets were a .500 team. They are 3-12 with a game to play this season. Ryan is one of the best defensive minds in the game. He continued to show that this year despite something of a talent void in the secondary. The responsibility to fill talent voids falls on the general manager. That should put Idzik's job security in jeopardy as well.

Casserly might be best known now for his TV work on NFL Network. Before that he had a solid run as an NFL personnel man. Could this consulting gig with the Jets turn into something more? Who knows? Michael Lombardi jumped from NFL Network analyst to the Cleveland Browns front office a few years ago. He was fired by the Browns new ownership group about a year later. Casserly might want to give doing anything more than consulting a lot of thought. There's much better job security in TV.

It's more likely that this story is nothing more than Woody Johnson getting advice from someone that knows the NFL front office game. Casserly started a team from scratch in Houston. He'll be facing the same sort of thing in New York.