When Todd Bowles was looking to put together a coaching staff after being named Jets head coach in 2015, he chose Kacy Rodgers to be his defensive coordinator.
Rodgers had been Miami’s defensive line coach since 2008, when he and Bowles joined the late Tony Sparano’s staff after working together under Bill Parcells in Dallas.
Asked by The Post on Thursday why he gave Rodgers his first chance to be a defensive coordinator, Bowles said, “He’s very intelligent, very bright and we’ve been together a long time. He knows what I would run and knows how to run it and understands how to get it done, and I trust him with that.