Adam Gase’s days as Jets head coach are likely numbered, but he has yet to receive any indication of his fate with the organization from New York’s brass.
Gase denied a report from WFAN that said Jets ownership already told him he would be fired following Sunday’s season finale against the Patriots.
“That was news to me,” Gase said Wednesday, per the New York Post’s Brian Costello. “No one has said that to me.”
While nobody in the Jets organization has offered Gase a definitive answer on his future with the team, the expectation is that Christopher Johnson will pull the plug after the Jets wrap up the 2020 season in New England.
In two years with the Jets, Gase has compiled a 9-22 record. New York has won two straight games since starting 0-13 and players have recently come to his defense when asked if he should return in 2021. However, Gase’s failures to get Gang Green’s offense pointed in the right direction (the Jets have the No. 32 offense in the NFL for the second straight year) and his inability to effectively oversee Sam Darnold’s progression are likely to do him in.
“I learned probably when I was 22 years old, Nick Saban told me you do your job until somebody tells you different,” Gase said. “That’s what I’m going to be focused on. My job is to get us ready to go this Sunday and try to win a game.”
