Antonio Cromartie will be returning to the New York Jets as an assistant coach for training camp.
Cromartie, who had two tenures with the Jets, returns to the organization as part of the Bill Walsh internship program. Cromartie spent five of his 11 seasons in the NFL with the Jets.
The fellowship was “Designed as a vocational tool to increase the number of full-time NFL minority coaches, all 32 NFL clubs participate each year. Specific aspects of the program — including hiring, compensation and coaching duties — are administered on a club-by-club basis.”
Cromartie was recently on staff with Texas A&M where he was a defensive assistant.
In speaking with Jake Asman, Cromartie talked about the Jets playoff drought, which extends back to 2010. Cromartie was a part of that Jets team, but his thoughts were centered on another New York team that he was also a part of that nearly made the playoffs a few years later.
“I’m still thinking about the 2015 year when we should have made it and beat Buffalo. We beat Buffalo, we’re in the playoffs. We wound up going 10-6 that year. You talking about beating Buffalo, being 11-5, back in the playoffs as a Wild Card,” Cromartie told Asman.
“Nobody probably wanted to play us. It would have had that same feeling – that 2010 feel that nobody wanted to play us at that point in time.
“We didn’t get in and it’s been 14 years, it’ll be 14 years since we’ve been. It’s at the point of how that’s going to change and what’s going to change.”
The Jets ended the 2015 season with a record of10-6 as Cromartie noted and with a brutal 22-17 loss at the Buffalo Bills. Win that game, and the Jets would have been in the playoffs.
It was one of the most brutal losses in franchise history.
The last time the #Jets made the playoffs new Jets coach @CRO31 was on the team…
Antonio Cromartie reflected back on the Jets 14 year playoff drought on the @JakeAsmanShow! pic.twitter.com/3nq9FFmwNu
— Jake Asman (@JakeAsman) July 2, 2024
