{"id":88845,"date":"2025-01-03T22:29:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T22:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/deion-sanders-urges-jets-to-hire-louis-riddick-as-general-manager-after-recent-interview-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2025-01-03T22:29:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T22:29:25","slug":"deion-sanders-urges-jets-to-hire-louis-riddick-as-general-manager-after-recent-interview-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/deion-sanders-urges-jets-to-hire-louis-riddick-as-general-manager-after-recent-interview-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Deion Sanders urges Jets to hire Louis Riddick as general manager after recent interview | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Deion Sanders, head coach at the University of Colorado, has urged the New York Jets not to squander a potential opportunity after the team interviewed ESPN analyst Louis Riddick for their vacant general manager position.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Sanders expressed his support for Riddick in a post on Thursday, writing: \u201cJets, please don\u2019t mess this up and I pray this was a real interview and not that other thang y\u2019all do. This man deserves a REAL CHANCE! He is knowledge &amp; class personified!\u201d<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DeionSanders\/status\/1875003791067824615\">\n<blockquote align=\"center\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jets Please don\u2019t mess this up and I pray this was a real interview and not that other thang y\u2019all do. This man deserves a REAL CHANCE! He is knowledge &amp; Class personified! <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CoachPrime?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CoachPrime<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y1yrNDD4BB\">https:\/\/t.co\/Y1yrNDD4BB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 COACH PRIME (@DeionSanders) <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeionSanders\/status\/1875003791067824615?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Riddick, 55, brings an extensive background in the NFL. A former player, Riddick played six seasons in the league before transitioning to the front office. He served as the Philadelphia Eagles\u2019 director of pro personnel from 2010 to 2013 and worked as a pro scout with Washington from 2001 to 2004, eventually becoming the team\u2019s director of pro personnel from 2005 to 2007. Afterward, Riddick became one of ESPN\u2019s top NFL analysts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Sanders, who was Riddick&#8217;s teammate with the Atlanta Falcons in the early 1990s, appeared to be referencing \u201cThe Rooney Rule\u201d in his tweet. This NFL policy requires teams to interview at least one minority candidate for vacant positions, a practice sometimes criticized for being used in bad faith, with no genuine intent to hire the candidate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The Jets are in the midst of their search for both a new general manager and head coach after firing Robert Saleh and Joe Douglas during the season. Riddick is among several candidates interviewed, alongside Ron Rivera for head coach and other potential GM contenders like Thomas Dimitroff, Jon Robinson, and Jim Nagy.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deion Sanders, head coach at the University of Colorado, has urged the New York Jets not to squander a potential opportunity after the team interviewed ESPN analyst Louis Riddick for their vacant general manager position.\u00a0 Sanders expressed his support for Riddick in a post on Thursday, writing: \u201cJets, please don\u2019t mess this up and I 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