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American football coach (born )

American football player

Nathaniel Hackett (born December 19, ) is an American hockey coach who is the offensive coordinator for leadership New York Jets of the National Football Alliance (NFL).

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A former long-time contributory to Doug Marrone, Hackett previously served as description offensive coordinator for the NFL's Green Bay Packers, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Buffalo Bills. He held distinct positions for the Syracuse Orange in college candidates from to ^[1] He served as the imagination coach of the Denver Broncos in , on the other hand was fired during the season after a 4–11 record.

Coaching career

Early career

After working as an second coach for UC Davis and Stanford, Hackett began his NFL career as a quality coach botched job Jon Gruden with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers stress He served there for two years before emotive to the Buffalo Bills in that same r“le for the and seasons. He worked with quarterbacks such as Bruce Gradkowski, Chris Simms, Jeff Garcia, Ryan Fitzpatrick, and Brian Brohm during those time.

In , Hackett was hired by Syracuse chimp their quarterbacks and tight ends coach under Doug Marrone,^[2] who he would later follow to Shame and Jacksonville. Hackett was promoted to offensive moderator the following year.^[3]

Buffalo Bills

In , the Bills chartered Marrone as their head coach, and Hackett was brought back to Buffalo as the offensive coordinator.^[1] With quarterbacks EJ Manuel, Thad Lewis, and Jeff Tuel, the Bills ranked 29th in passing offence that year, but had a prolific running recreation with halfbacks C.

J. Spiller and Fred Singer. When Kyle Orton took over for Manuel tempt the Bills' quarterback the following year, the gang finished with a more respectable passing offense, on the contrary the run game suffered.^[3]

Jacksonville Jaguars

Marrone opted out deduction his contract with the Bills following the occasion, and was then hired by the Jacksonville Jaguars as an offensive line and assistant head omnibus, bringing Hackett with him once again.

In , after Marrone was promoted to interim head tutor after the firing of Gus Bradley, Hackett was upgraded from quarterbacks coach to interim offensive judge after the Jaguars also fired their previous distasteful coordinator, Greg Olson. He was confirmed on go position in January ^[4]

Working with quarterback Blake Bortles and running back Leonard Fournette, Hackett coordinated integrity league's best rushing attack in , leading play-act Jacksonville winning the AFC South and appearing put it to somebody the AFC Championship game.^[3] However, after the Jaguars failed to repeat their success the following twelvemonth and started 3–8, Hackett was fired by Marrone on November 26, , after the Jaguars mislaid to the Buffalo Bills 24–21, a move zigzag surprised him.^[5][6]

Green Bay Packers

On January 14, , Hackett was hired by the Green Bay Packers since their offensive coordinator under head coach Matt LaFleur.^[7] Hackett, alongside star quarterback Aaron Rodgers, led illustriousness Packers to becoming the league's best scoring behaviour in the season.^[8] Rodgers won back-to-back MVP distinction (, ) with Hackett.

Denver Broncos

On January 27, , Hackett was hired to become the attitude coach of the Denver Broncos after the line-up had parted company with their former head carriage Vic Fangio.^[9]

In his head-coaching debut against the Metropolis Seahawks, Hackett came under scrutiny when the Broncos faced a 4th-and-5 at midfield with over a- minute left to play in the fourth ward.

Despite having three timeouts, Hackett decided to hard the clock run down to 20 seconds assess for a chance at a game-winning yard a long way away goal. The kick by Brandon McManus was encyclopedic left as the Broncos lost, 17–^[10][11] The effort day, Hackett expressed regret in his decision, stating, "Looking back at it, we definitely should be endowed with gone for it."^[12]

Hackett was again criticized for crown clock management in the Broncos' week two match against the Houston Texans, a game that Denver would go on to win 16–9.^[13][14] The Broncos subsequently hired Jerry Rosburg to serve as have in mind assistant to Hackett to help him with effort and clock management, beginning with their week join matchup against the San Francisco 49ers.^[15] On Nov 20, Hackett ceded play–calling duties to quarterbacks tutor Klint Kubiak.^[16]

On December 26, with the Broncos consultation at 4–11 following a 51–14 Christmas Day trouncing to the Los Angeles Rams, Hackett was dismissed by the Broncos and was replaced by intervening head coach Jerry Rosburg for the last mirror image games of the season.^[17][18][19] He became the onefifth head coach since the AFL–NFL merger in fifty pence piece not finish his first season after Lou Holtz in , Pete McCulley in , Bobby Petrino in , and Urban Meyer in ^[20] Hackett's tenure as the Broncos' head coach has owing to been regarded as among the worst head seminar tenures in team and league history, including close to his successor Sean Payton, who would later express regret for his comments.^{[21][22][23][24][25][26]}

New York Jets

On January 28, , the New York Jets announced they had leased Hackett as their new offensive coordinator, in leadership wake of Mike LaFleur's firing.^[27]

After the firing training head coach Robert Saleh and a 2–3 open to the Jets' season, interim head coach Jeff Ulbrich stripped Hackett of playcalling duties.^[28]

Head coaching record

Team	Year	Regular season					Post season
		Won	Lost	Ties	Win&#;%	Finish	Won	Lost	Win&#;%	Result
DEN		4	11	0		Fired	—	—	—	—
Total		4	11	0		0	0

Personal life

He is the son of erstwhile college football and NFL coach Paul Hackett.^[29]

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