The New York Jets hired Pepper Johnson as their defensive line coach on Saturday.

The news comes one day after new head coach Todd Bowles named Kacy Rodgers to be the defensive coordinator.

Johnson, 50, coached for the New England Patriots from 2000 to 2013 and joined the Buffalo Bills as defensive line coach last season.

Johnson played linebacker for the Jets in 1997 and 1998 before starting his coaching career.

Johnson expressed his frustration last week after missing out on the New York Giants’ defensive coordinator job. The job went to Steve Spagnuolo, who previously had won a Super Bowl ring as a member of Tom Coughlin’s staff.

“Moving away from the Patriots, spending a year in Buffalo, I was hoping it would open doors and open some eyes, that more people would be watching,” Johnson told the New York Daily News, “and (that some team) will give me a call before all this is said and done. I feel bottled up. I have a lot of knowledge and a lot of information that I feel like I just have to keep to myself.”