The New York Jets completed video interviews with five candidates for their offensive coordinator vacancy, including former NFL head coach and current Stanford adviser Frank Reich.
The team announced Wednesday night it also had remote meetings with Darrell Bevell, Ronald Curry, Greg Roman and Lunda Wells.
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FILE - Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator Greg Roman looks on during pre-game warm-ups before an NFL football game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Jan. 1, 2023, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Terrance Williams, File)
FILE - New Orleans Saints passing game coordinator/quarterbacks coach Ronald Curry walks on the field before an NFL football game against the New York Giants in New Orleans, Dec. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
FILE - Miami Dolphins quarterbacks/pass game coordinator Darrell Bevell walks on the sidelines during an NFL football game against the New Orleans Saints, Nov. 30, 2025, in Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Doug Murray, File)
FILE - Stanford head coach Frank Reich watches during the first half of an NCAA college football game against North Carolina, Nov. 8, 2025, in Chapel Hill, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Seward, File)
The Jets are looking for an offensive coordinator after Tanner Engstrand and the team agreed to part ways Tuesday, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press. Coach Aaron Glenn and Engstrand had been discussing Engstrand’s role before the sides agreed to move on, the person told the AP on condition of anonymity because the team didn’t announce the move.
Glenn is turning his focus to finding a leader for his offense after hiring former Miami Dolphins assistant Brian Duker on Wednesday to be New York's defensive coordinator. Duker replaces Steve Wilks, who was fired with three games remaining in the Jets' 3-14 season.
The new offensive coordinator will inherit a unit that finished last in the NFL in yards passing and 29th in both total yards per game and points per game. After Justin Fields was benched after starting just nine games, the Jets are also likely to add a veteran quarterback in free agency and perhaps target a potential future starter in the NFL draft.
The 64-year-old Reich was 4-8 as Stanford's interim coach last season and is currently in a senior adviser role for the Cardinal, who hired Tavita Pritchard as their coach in November. Reich, a 14-year NFL quarterback who was with the Jets during the 1996 season, has an extensive coaching history.
He went 40-33-1 with two playoff appearances in 4 1/2 seasons as the head coach of the Indianapolis Colts before being fired in 2022. Reich went 1-10 in a brief stint as Carolina's coach in 2023. He previously had stops as the offensive coordinator for the Chargers and Eagles, helping Philadelphia win the Super Bowl during the 2017 season.
Bevell was the Dolphins' quarterbacks coach and pass game coordinator the last four seasons. He was Jacksonville's offensive coordinator in 2021 and was the Jaguars' interim coach for the final four games that season.
Bevell oversaw Detroit's offense for two seasons and also served as the Lions' interim coach for five games during the 2020 season. He was previously the offensive coordinator for Minnesota and Seattle, where he was part of the Seahawks' Super Bowl winner in the 2013 season.
Curry, a former NFL wide receiver, was Buffalo's quarterbacks coach the past two seasons. He has familiarity with Glenn, with whom he was on the same staff for five years an assistant in New Orleans. Curry was an offensive assistant for the Saints in 2016, was promoted to wide receivers coach in 2018 and quarterbacks coach in 2021 before working as New Orleans' quarterbacks coach and pass game coordinator for two seasons.
Roman is a longtime NFL assistant who has had stints as an offensive coordinator with four teams, including the Los Angeles Chargers the past two seasons. He has also been in charge of the offenses of Baltimore (2019-22), Buffalo (2015-16) and San Francisco (2011-14). Among Roman's other stops, he was Houston's quarterbacks coach during the 2004 season, when Glenn was a cornerback for the Texans. Roman was the AP Assistant Coach of the Year in 2019 under John Harbaugh in Baltimore.
Wells has been Dallas' tight ends coach the last six seasons after serving in various roles over eight years with the Giants, including as the tight ends coach (2018-19), assistant offensive line coach (2013-17) and offensive quality control coach (2012).
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FILE - Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator Greg Roman looks on during pre-game warm-ups before an NFL football game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Jan. 1, 2023, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Terrance Williams, File)
FILE - New Orleans Saints passing game coordinator/quarterbacks coach Ronald Curry walks on the field before an NFL football game against the New York Giants in New Orleans, Dec. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
FILE - Miami Dolphins quarterbacks/pass game coordinator Darrell Bevell walks on the sidelines during an NFL football game against the New Orleans Saints, Nov. 30, 2025, in Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Doug Murray, File)
FILE - Stanford head coach Frank Reich watches during the first half of an NCAA college football game against North Carolina, Nov. 8, 2025, in Chapel Hill, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Seward, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are increasingly concerned that immigration enforcement is becoming a political liability in the upcoming midterm elections after two people were killed by federal agents during President Donald Trump’s crackdown in Minneapolis.
Although few are willing to publicly break with the president, there has been a crescendo of criticism as Republicans nudge the White House to change course. A looming end-of-week funding deadline has brought the issue to a head in Congress, with Democrats vowing to block Homeland Security funding without significant changes and Republicans struggling to find their footing.
“This is about regaining the trust of the American people on this issue, and I really think we’re losing on an issue that we should be winning on,” Sen. Thom Tillis told reporters on Capitol Hill.
The North Carolina Republican is retiring at the end of his term, making him more willing to talk candidly than other members of his party who are reckoning with outrage over the Minneapolis deaths while also trying to avoid getting crosswise with Trump.
But others are also speaking out after Alex Pretti, 37, was killed Saturday, just weeks after Renee Good, also 37, was fatally shot.
“The administration has lost control of the narrative,” said Jason Roe, a Republican strategist working on midterm campaigns. He said, "We can’t get out from underneath what’s happening in Minneapolis.”
Historically, the party in control of the White House loses ground in Congress during the midterms. Republicans have also struggled in elections without Trump on the ballot, a pattern that continued last year in New Jersey and Virginia.
“Democrats are really, really mad and they cannot wait to go vote,” said Roe. “And I just am not seeing that in any polling I’ve seen on the Republican side.”
For Republicans uneasy with the administration’s enforcement tactics but reluctant to criticize Trump directly, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has become the focal point for their anxiety.
“I think you have a secretary right now that needs to be accountable to the chaos and some of the tragedy that we have seen," said Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who said Noem should step down. She added that "we need clarity and accountability for the chaos and tragedy we have seen.”
Trump has said Noem is “doing a very good job” and would remain in his administration. Democrats said she should be impeached, although they lack the necessary clout on Capitol Hill to achieve that while Republicans have the majority.
Immigration has been one of Trump's signature issues, and voters were even more likely to accept his hardline stance in 2024 than they were in previous campaigns. Republicans remain overwhelmingly supportive of his work on immigration, according to a Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey conducted in January.
Tillis, who has also called for Noem to be replaced, said the president is jeopardizing that.
“He won on a strong message about immigration,” Tillis said. “And now nobody’s talking about that. They’re not talking about securing the border. They’re talking about the incompetence of the leader of Homeland Security.”
The concerns have spilled into Maine, home to one of the nation’s most competitive Senate races. Sen. Susan Collins, who is up for reelection, said Tuesday that she had asked the administration to pause the surge of immigration enforcement operations in her state and Minnesota.
Lawmakers are using the Jan. 31 deadline for passing government funding legislation as a pressure tactic to inflict change. Trump has already signed into law six of the 12 annual spending bills for the current budget year, but six more still await approval in the Senate, including funding for Homeland Security.
A growing number of Senate Republicans have said they would be open to Democrats’ demand to separate Homeland Security funding from the broader package for further debate, while advancing the remaining bills.
Other Republicans have struck a more cautious tone. First-term Sen. Ted Budd of North Carolina said on social media that while he supports Trump’s immigration goals, he was hopeful that the president's decision to reshuffle personnel in Minnesota would lead to “orderly and systematic operations” focused on the most dangerous offenders.
There's been a noticeable tone shift at the top following Pretti's death Saturday. In an interview late Tuesday, the president told ABC News that he hoped the presence of border czar Tom Homan — who this week replaced the Border Patrol's Gregory Bovino as his on-the-ground point person — would allow for “a little bit more relaxed” and “de-escalated” operation in Minneapolis.
But Trump reacted angrily when Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said he wanted Homeland Security to end its operation “as quickly as possible," posting on social media that the mayor was “PLAYING WITH FIRE."
Kinnard reported from Columbia, S.C., and can be reached at http://x.com/MegKinnardAP
President Donald Trump speaks during the launch of a program known as Trump Accounts at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026, in Washington.(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a news conference at Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, is surrounded by reporters following a closed-door Republican meeting on spending legislation that funds the Department of Homeland Security and a swath of other government agencies, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., speaks with reporters following a closed-door meeting with fellow Republicans on spending legislation that funds the Department of Homeland Security and a swath of other government agencies, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
