Would You Turn on Rex?

Some of this post is BULLSHIT. The players in the lockerroom hated Mangini even when we were 10-6. They werent having fun and enjoying football. Who cares what the media cared about MAngini(who never gave them anything so they never even liked him). Mangini took us to the playoffs with a mediocre team. Everyone knew we had no chance. This team had the #1 defense, and the #1 running game and won 2 games and we all believed we could go to the Superbowl. Stop talking about the past because now we know what Rex is and we have formed opinions about him after a full year not just 6 games.

If Rex doesn't get hit by a truck and lose his coaching abilities, or we get rid of our best players, then there's no excuse for Rex not to repeat this type of year next year.

 

I'd run through a wall for Rex. The guy produces fire and he is stealing headlines from the G-Men. I'll never turn on this guy.

 

i find it funny that so many people say they will never turn on rex. those of you that are yankmees fans out there who turned on torre should remind yourself of the what have you done for me lately thought process you use.

i am on the other hand honest, if rex doesnt get things done, if he continues to talk but does not continue to win i would want him gone. the bottom line is winning superbowls. not how cool a guy is or how much man love you have for him.

win and you dont have to talk.

 

i probably should have read the post before answering. my answer was over a period of time not a single year.

face it in the nfl anything can happen year to year, i wouldnt want him replaced because he had A bad year.

however there were plenty of times this year that i wanted him to stfu. and for the most part he did when the team was not playing well. for whatever reason he only talks when the team is doing well. then he was really really quiet for about 2 months earlier this year.

 

WTF are you saying here? We're not discussing the players, we're discussing the fan base. You just proved my exact point.... after one season Mangini was getting the exact same love...... And I'm not hating on Rex....

By the way, the only player who hated Mangini was Lav Coles. I haven't heard a single player that EM coached on the Jets call him out for anything besides Coles.

 

People were talking to the press about Mangini all the time anonymously. Pete Kendall spoke to the NFLPA several times about Mangini's practices and we saw what that brought.

 

"Everybody had mixed feelings about (Mangini)," Revis said. "As a team, you can't go far (like that). ... We're men, we're not boys. Coach Mangini ran it like a high-school team where he wanted all the control."

 

Interesting. I've also heard Jenkins, Pace and T Jones back up Mangini. It is what it is, and Mangini has some fucked up ways of operating. But my point regarding the fans stands.

 

You'd never turn on Rex? He's a human being. They are capable of being people we don't expect them to be.

I understand if Rex was a robot programmed to go 9-7 and make it to the AFC championship game his first year and win the super bowl the next, yeah I wouldn't turn on him either.

I trust him with the team and like the way it's been going. Wouldn't cut his head off should we not make the playoffs next season...but that depends on the circumstances.

But to say I'd never turn on him? That's just gay.

 

Are you kidding me. Rex has gotten 10000 times more love and attention then mangini ever got. Are you kidding me? And there were about 10-20 players who have publicly come out and talk about how awful it was under mangini and how different and better Rex is. Are you hidden away in a cave or something.

Read some reports on how players didn't even care about the playoffs when mangini was their coach.

And about your point about fans turning on Rex. Usually fans follow the media and their reports, so obv some fans will turn on him if something goes bad. But that's an obvious point.

 

Turn on Rex?

I imagine all it would take is a couple of hot dogs or maybe one of you fags could make a nice homemade Lasagna with a blueberry pie for him.

I am sure Rex would be sufficiently turned-on by either. He is a fat man the way to his heart is probably food.

 

Good pick up MP. When I first opened this thread...I thought they meant turn on him as in the team started to fail.

Yeah...I guess I could turn him on. I have a real cute pick of me in my teens dressed up as a cheerleader (ummm...for Halloween I believe?). Fools everyone.

I guess my question is why would we want Rex to be turned on? You went with the food angle..brilliant approach.

On a serious note, I love the guy. He scares me too. Hes almost too good to be true. I cant imagine liking a coach more than this guy. He is my favorite coach in 40 years of watching the Jets.

With that said...Rex does have the "Caution: could self destruct at anytime" feel to him. I could give a rats ass about him giving the finger. Its just that things are adding up a bit. Calling out a Dolphin linebacker. Telling the world you team should be the favorite to win it all. Telling everyone that this is now Jets country.

My initial thought is that Rex will coach and talk from year to year..and this year..this is what this Jet team..and fan base needed to hear. As the team gets stronger...the talk will slow down. Its easy for a team that is not predicted to do crap to talk crap...nobody is listening and those that are..they are laughing.

But when this team rises to the top..and I believe thats whats about to happen...you do not need any more bulls eyes then you already have.

Maybe thats the Jet paranoia in me. I hope Rex has the ability to treat each season differently...and that this years Jet team needed what we heard.

I could easily be wrong.

 

LOL to the first part.

As to the 2nd......

Rex as shown an ability to self assess. It's an ability people must have if they want to be at the upper echelon of a profession. He changed mid season, took more control. He saved the season, team and rookie QB, when the Jets could have easily self destructed. They did that very thing last year under Mangini, who did not have that ability. Mangini, cowered and the team followed suit.

The only game where Rex really didn't show an ability to adjust in game (after midseason when he took the reigns) was against the Colts. That was more of a function of Peyton than anything.

You are right though, Rex has that Bugs Bunny throwing a match in Yosemite Sam's powder room dynamic going on. That finger thing was Rex being out and about, drunk. Could be worse, at least it wasn't a Vickblows story.

His boast about the Jets should be Super Bowl favorite's was just a way of him taking the focus off the team and on him. That was a very savvy idea actually.

I think he has the ability to learn and adapt. We shall see. If he can somehow stifle that self destruct mode, me thinks the Jets have got themselves a coach for the ages, one we Jet fans can finally call our own.......

 

Very few here WON'T turn on Rex. if/when things start to go pear shaped.
Jets fans with patience? Where did they come from?

 

Yeah, I was going to say that too, the very thought of turning on Rex is making me nauseous.

 

Totally agree..but hope it continues..the whole self evaluation thing. He has shown the ability to change to circumstances...and if the "my Jets are better then you guys" routine worked this year to get them within one half of football to the Super Bowl...Im hedging that way.

Just that Im really not in the mood for preseason nonsense stating the same thing..."we should be favorites again this year" routine...it grows old and bites you all of the time.

 

Uhhh okay show me the reports that say the players "didn't even care" about the playoffs in 2006....

 

haha normally i like turning on people with big titties, but there are exceptions to every rule