Here are some noteworthy sidebars on five of the new offensive coaches hired by head coach Aaron Glenn and the Jets in recent days.

Frank Reich: Positioning Receivers for the Catch
Offensive coordinator Frank Reich’s comeback abilities as a player are legendary, earning him the status from some as “the best backup QB in football.” He showed it at Maryland when he led the Terps from 31-0 down at the half to 42-40 over Miami in 1984, then again in the ’92 NFL playoffs when he reversed the Bills’ 35-3 deficit into, at the time, the greatest comeback in pro postseason history in the 41-38 OT AFC Wild Card win over the Oilers.

Reich almost executed a fantastic finish as the Jets’ 1996 QB against his old team from Buffalo, leading the then-winless Green & White on a touchdown drive to a 22-22 tie after the two-minute warning. The TD pass went to none other than fan favorite Wayne Chrebet, who said this at the time about his diving 21-yard over-the-middle, on-the-goal-line connection:

“It was the best-thrown ball I’ve ever caught. I don’t care whether I’ve been playing on the street or at the YMCA or at Hofstra. He put it in a position for me to catch it. I just closed my eyes and the ball ended up in my hands.”

Reich hasn’t thrown a pass in a game in a while, but as the new OC, he’ll still be in charge of getting Jets QBs’ best-thrown balls into the hands of Garrett Wilson and the receivers in 2026, a mere three decades after Chrebet’s catch.

Bill Musgrave: Coaching Up QBs a Long Time
Quarterbacks coach Bill Musgrave has much knowledge to pass on to the Jets QBs from the vast storehouse of knowledge he’s acquired in his long career in football. As a QB himself, Musgrave had outstanding tenures at his Colorado high school and at the University of Oregon.

A career NFL backup before heading into coaching, he holds one distinction in Super Bowl history: He’s tied for the best completion percentage in a Super Bowl. He completed his only pass for 6 yards in relief of Steve Young in the 49ers’ rout of the Chargers in SB XXIX. (Among the 10 others he’s tied with at 100% accuracy is Reich, who went 1-for-1 for 11 yards for Buffalo vs. Washington in SB XXVI.)

As a coach, Musgrave has an impressive résumé that features six stops as an NFL offensive coordinator, with two more as an OC at major colleges. And the Jets will be his ninth gig as a quarterbacks coach, with eight coming in the pros.

Musgrave mentioned one of his mantras last season as Cleveland’s QBs coach when asked about backup reps at practices: “As quarterbacks, we don’t count the plays. We make the plays count.”

Alfredo Roberts: Tight Ends All the Way
TEs coach Alfredo Roberts has been all about tight ends all his life. He was a top TE at his Miami high school, at “the U” in his college career, and as an eighth-round draft pick in 1988 by Kansas City. He’s been the TEs coach for an NFL team on six occasions before coming to the Jets, with the only time stepping away from that position coming in 2017 when he was brought to the Los Angeles Chargers as running backs coach by Anthony Lynn, the former Jets assistant HC and RBs coach from 2009-14. Which brings us to …