http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/je...reg-mcelroy-but-mike-tannenbaum-tony-sparano- Rex Ryan hasn’t revealed his starting quarterback for this week's game against the Jaguars, but the Daily News has learned that owner Woody Johnson prefers Greg McElroy to start this week. General manager Mike Tannenbaum and offensive coordinator Tony Sparano prefer Mark Sanchez, who was benched for the first time in his career last week and watched as McElroy rallied the Jets to a win over the Cardinals. Ryan met with various members of the organization on Monday in order to make an informed decision, according to sources. However, he hadn’t definitively decided on his signal caller by the end of the day. Tim Tebow, who is dealing with two cracked ribs, doesn’t appear to be in the mix to start in Jacksonville.
Stuff like this getting out is a big hinderance to the Jets, these allegiances have got to stay behind closed doors, if this report is indeed true.
Woody doesn't even know shit about football. Leave it to the coaches, stop evaluating players you know nothing about!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hate Woody Johnson.
You start Sanchez if you think there's a realistic shot at the playoffs. He's the guy most likely to get you wins against bad teams down the stretch. You start McElroy in any other situation. The Jets can't fix the entire offense around Sanchez. He's already mentally cooked. Another season of running around looking like a fool while the fans chant for his ouster doesn't help anybody. The process of salvaging him had to begin this year and the Jets failed on that count. it's unfortunate but it's reality. So you fix the offense over a period of a couple of seasons, during which you go get your QB, who has a clean slate with the fans, and make it all work. It's sad for Jets fans to lose the potential Sanchez window but looking at where things are it's pretty clear that window never got cranked wide open in the first place. Sanchez was playing off the Brett Favre window his first two seasons. Now the window that should have been his has slammed shut.
So let me get this straight: -Woody is hands off w/ the team & he doesn't care about winning/losing..onlyu cares about the bottom line. - Woody offers an opinion on a major storyline within the team's future & he's not allowing his front office to do their job & is overstepping his bounds. Which is it?
I'd rather him stay away from the team, no personnel decisions at all. Trust the guys you hired, or fire them. Don't make decisions you know nothing about. I think he should shut up and sign the checks and let the guys you hired take care of business. His opinion means nothing, especially since he knows absolutely nothing about football, and how the game is played.
Woody wants to sell tickets, like ANY owner would. He knows Sanchez is a hindrance in that regard at the moment. The problem here is that the Jets organization has too many leakers and the media is too large to be suppressed. In a small media market like Green Bay or Pittsburgh there is much less competition for stories. It's much easier to take the small professional media crowd and bring them inside and keep them well fed on stuff that will sell copy for them. In NY/NJ it's impossible to avoid somebody blowing things up to make a living in the highly contested media arena.
The fact that our piece of shit owner even feels the need to talk to the media and this shit gets out is a complete joke
I think we should hold up at yelling at Tanny and Woody though, because why is Rex seeking their input in the first place? You're the head coach, let it be on your shoulders man.
FYI, no one has talked to the media. This is a report from Manish Mehta, citing his usual anonymous "sources" . . . again, neither Woody nor Tanny have said anything to the media about who should start at quarterback.
I agree.That needs to be a major point of emphasis this offseason. Get the media leakage under control. Jets can still be a major headline story w/o constant turmoil & "inside sources" every single day. They need to get that under control by any means necessary
The last person who should be listened to is Tannenbaum. He's the one who ran this team into the ground in the first place.
Great news reporting if true Now it's much easier to know who should stay and who should be fired from management.
Woody Johnson is a smart man. He may not know all the X's and O's about football, but he isn't an idiot. Tannenbaum and Sporano are NOT smart men. That's really all there is. If I were Rex, I'd listen to the guy who has the most power to fire you.
The important thing though is not to start a war on the media in the process. Nobody can win a war on the people that report on them on a daily basis. The Jets just need to get hold of the story-line surrounding the franchise and make sure that they're in control of it moving forward. Trolling for the back pages is bad business because once you become tabloid fodder you enter the realm of anonymous sources, half-truths and outright lies.
This is what I figured when I saw the Daily News. I didn't bother to even click the click, just waited for someone to say it was Manish. I'm sure that after his "reporting" a few weeks ago, the FO is eager to speak to him.
