Sorry, haven't seen this posted. I'd be happy with the choice, except for the "retaining Brian Schotteneimer to run the offense" part. According to Jets Confidential: Marty Schottenheimer has emerged as a leading candidate for the Jets head coaching vacancy. Schottenheimer, who has been out of coaching the last two seasons, seems like a perfect fit for the Jets. The Jets are already using the same offensive system he used when he coached the San Diego Chargers. His son Brian is the Jets offensive coordinator. And Marty also used the 3-4 defense during his time in San Diego, and that is what the Jets currently play. The Jets have been building a 3-4 defense the last three years, so it wouldn't make a lot of sense to move to the 4-3 now. So Marty would essentially use the same offense and defense as the Jets, and this would really help the players because they wouldn't have to learn new playbooks. Also, Marty had a lot of success with a quarterback nearing 40 in Kansas City when he had Joe Montana, so he would be able to work effectively perhaps with Brett Favre, if he returns. But the most important characteristic that Marty brings to the Jets is great leadership and motivational skills, something the Jets are in dire need of right now.
At least Marty got his teams to the playoffs something the Jets havent done in awhile. I just want to see us in the post season. Something at least that would be good.
I would be happy with this. I think Marty would keep Schotty in check with his asshole playcalling and force him to commit to the run. Marty is a great football coach.
I'm all for Marty, he's a winning coach. He has had some playoff blunders, but I don't put that all on him. Mangini had an 8-3 team with the division lead and couldn't get us there, Marty with this team would've given us 11-13 wins.
Marty would be perfect to build this team right now. We shouldn't be in "win or fail" mode so there's no need to get to the Super Bowl in the next two years or slit our throats. Give us a good draft and let Marty do what he does best - win in the regular season - and everybody gets what they want. We get a stable team that could really turn the corner after a couple of years and Woody gets a team that wins and sells tickets/merchandise/PSLs. Spags and Shanahan would mean completely retooling the defense and/or the offense which would mean losing seasons which would mean fired after three years. Marty isn't the sexy pick right now but he's the safe one and that's what the Jets need.
I was thinking the same thing. Plus, everyone was once saying Dungy, and Coughlin couldn't get it done in the playoffs either. Obviously they proved them wrong. Anything can happen in the playoffs, and the Jets need an experienced coach to right the ship, er Jet.
This could be a perfect fit. This could be what both sides need. A underachieving team gets a coach who does stellar during the regular season but can't win a playoff game if his life depended on it. Seriously it could break the jinx once and for all.
Well if he ends up here we would not lose a couple of seasons getting things rebuilt to his liking. As long as he gets a good DC in here I think we hit the ground running next year and shoot for a winning season. Between father and son maybe we could have a balanced offense. As for the post-season problems, Cowher had a few of those years too where he had issues in the playoffs but he did figure it out. This guy would be a 180 from EM standing on the sidelines after a play just blew up in our face.......Not my first choice, but still a good upgrade
I believe the Dungy comparisons are apt. In Cleveland, he had inferior talent to the Broncos' team led by Elway. Who was his QB? Bernie Kosar. Come on. He also coached Joe Montana in KC, so he knows how to work with an "over the hill" future HOF star quarterback. We could stick with the 3-4. Heard Cotchery talk about Marty's fire and passion for the game. The key would be to bring in a Rex Ryan type of DC who is aggressive (blitz-happy) and smart about in-game adjustments. As much as I hate Brian Schott. calling the offensive plays, he is not as conservative as Marty, so they might counterbalance each other so that we get more of the smart, consistent offense we saw in the NE and Tenn. road games. And in the playoffs, one game, anything can happen. The Chargers got hosed on a bunch of lousy calls in that game; it was at that point that I really started to wonder about whether the NFL wants the Patriots to be in the Super Bowl every year.
Why do you want Spagnuolo or Rex Ryan? What have they ever done in the NFL to make you believe they are worthy? Marty Schottenheimer has influenced quite a few talented coaches. Not to mention he has had a winning record with every team he has coached.
He may not be good when it comes to playoffs, but the first objective of the season is playoffs. All the playoff teams have a chance at winning the superbowl. Marty has been unlucky when it comes to playoffs. Look at Peyton Manning. Everybody kept on saying he can't get it done in the playoffs. He won the super bowl couple yrs ago and is leading a Colts team that may be the best team in the NFL right now with 9 straight wins. Right now, Marty is not considered an HOF coach. If he can win just one superbowl, he'll be considered a first ballot HOF coach. Its that simple. He has a great track record and built great teams. Lets hope he's selected so we can enjoy the game and a motivating coach every sunday.
Hey Marty may not me a bad choice, Everybody wanted Bill Cowher and if he didn't win a Super Bowl there coaching record in the Playoffs would almost look the same. If he can get this team to play like his other teams did and kick everbodys ass in the regular season, I'm sure he can get his playoff issue resolved. I think he would be a great choice.
At first, when I thought about Marty, I said: Hell nizzy. But then I thought about it. I want to keep as much of the playbook and schemes as possible, that's first and foremost to me because I think we have a good team victimized by a bad quarterback, and Marty, or an inhouse candidate, are really the only people who could do that. So then I thought, hey, not bad. But THEN I thought: what I'm essentially saying is: I wish we hadn't fired Mangini.
I just don't like it. Does anyone remember his 2003 team in Sam Diego. He is not guaranteed to bring success.
