John Idzik is back to where he's supposed to be, working in the background, studying spreadsheets and dealing with numbers, not people.

He won't have to pick any players in his new job and he won't have to conduct any news conferences, which means his new employers don't have to worry about angry fans and planes circling their practice field.

The former general manager of the New York Jets was hired Wednesday as a consultant by the Jacksonville Jaguars, according to reports. According to ESPN.com Jaguars reporter Michael DiRocco, Idzik will have no role in player evaluation. That's a smart move by the Jaguars because, until he was hired by the Jets in 2013, Idzik wasn't a player evaluator. The Jets tried to sell him as such, but we all know how that worked out. Dimitri Patterson, anyone?

In Jacksonville, Idzik will go back to his roots. He will work alongside Tim Walsh, the team's director of football administration and the man in charge of managing the salary cap. There's a delicious irony here. Idzik, notoriously frugal during his two-year run with the Jets, goes to the team with the most cap space in the league (an estimated $65 million). Wonder how he'll feel when his boss, GM David Caldwell (the guy who spurned the Jets in '13, leading them to Idzik), offers Ndamukong Suh a mega deal with more than $40 million in guarantees.

Will he call it a potential (Suh) coup? Will it achieve sustainable success?

It's kind of funny that Idzik ends up in Jacksonville with former Buffalo Bills coach Doug Marrone, the frontrunner for the Jets' head-coaching vacancy for about a minute. They could probably share stories about the New York media.