Its one thing for the Owner to keep Rex on. Its quite another for the new GM to EXTEND REX beyond the remaining 2 years on his contract. The new GM simply can come in, keep Rex on for one more year, and see what the landscape looks like at the end of '13. If Rex can turn this around, he gets extended. If not, Rex walks the plank. Its a win/win for Woody. Its also a win/win for the new GM for being willing to go along with a situation while waiting for the outcome before making any decisions. We all know Rex is coaching for his job in '13. He does the same things and obtains the same results? he's a goner pure and simple. Rex has to win in '13 schedule be damned. Any new GM already knows the situation and if they're smart enough to be GM of the NYJ's, they play this thing out to its conclusion, THEN make any necessary changes.
http://espn.go.com/new-york/nfl/story/_/id/8796197/new-york-jets-rex-ryan-fired-too Great article by Ian O'Connor on why Rex should have been fired too.
You are EXACTLY right, the jets got it exactly wrong. Ryan should have shown the door with Tanny. With Rex coming back, he will be talking up Sanchez all offseason and blaming all Sanchez's struggles on Sporano. With Rex next year you get Sanchez starting because Rex "really believes that Mark gives us the best chance to win." Let's start planning for 2014--Rex Ryan and Mark Sanchez will have us 6-10 (at best) in 2013
Fuck off, Pats fan. You Pats bandwagoners know absolutely less about football than some of the idiots on here. You should be the last one opening your mouth.
Why couldn't Woody just say the coaching staff will remain until the GM is picked and he will have all the final decisions on the staff? Because he's to cheap to let pay the GM and coach two more years. So no top notch GM prospect is going to take the Jet job.
Polian turned down our request for an interview so forget that pipe dream,We sent out feelers and he told us to fuck off
The owner hires the GM. The GM hires the coach. Therefore, as much as I like and respect Rex, he should have been fired, too. Woody is tying the hands of his new GM and I fear that it will lead someone Woody wants to take another job. This will also lead to in-fighting as Rex will have a different agenda than the new GM as he knows that he will have to have to win next season.
Def, And he would probably end up being a hall of famer down the road winning multiple Superbowls with the browns or some shitty franchise like that. People underestimate what Rex did his first two years , He made NFL fucking history show some respect
No one wants Rex. So we are stuck with him, but we have to get rid of Sanchez or Rex will start him again. He loves Sanchez's foot work.
An excellent article that tells it like it is, especially the part where the coach that "everyone wants to play for" had his team quit on him at the end of the last two seasons.
It's important that the Jets make the right decision on Rex and that they have a plan in place to capitalize on or at least cut the losses that come out of that decision. Whatever you think of Rex's ability to coach a football team he clearly coaches up a pretty good defense. He doesn't do this from a cookie-cutter perspective at all. In fact if you look at the snap counts the Jets played this year you see a ton of 5 and 6 defensive back fronts. You see a bunch of 4-2-5. You see a bunch of 2-3-6. He's just on another planet when it comes to deploying his personnel and scheming around them. He has assembled a really unique group of talents on the defensive side over the last 4 years and really they only fit what he is trying to do. So bringing in just about anybody else to coach the team is likely to lead to a sharp defensive decline. The plan to transition to the next coach, if that is going to happen, really requires the Jets to put a lot of thought into how the defense is built and what can be preserved moving forward. Given that next season looks to be a down season anyway one priority might be keeping Rex with a new DC to soak up some of the schemes and get a good understanding of how the personnel is used. Some of the things Rex has done with coverage and blitzes and bluffs and phantom zones is really ground-breaking stuff. I've seen plays this year where the Jets had 5 men on the line of scrimmage at the snap and only two of them rushed. That's like the zone blitz on steroids. There have been other plays where the Jets pressed on a receiver and then dropped off that guy completely to double somebody else while they blitzed the QB. The press to make the QB look away from that side of the field and the double to make him throw into traffic under pressure. This is really revolutionary stuff. Losing it and watching the Jets suffer on defense next season because the new HC tried to shoehorn the players in to a 4-3 or a 3-4 would really suck.
soon enough we will find out if candidates are passing on the JOB because Rex is being forced down their throats-----one way or another we will hear guys saying no---unless of course the 1 st guy offered the job takes it ? My guess is no one in their right mind will take the job if they are TOLD Rex MUST STAY---I feel the GM should pick his coach and then help or assist assembling the staff
Where does this love for Rex come from? Rex can't do no wrong. The Jets are 14-18 in the last two years. 14-18. Mike Munchak is 15-17. Mike Munchak has a better record than Rex Ryan in the last 2 years.
Bill Parcells comes in and takes the Jets 4-3 and changes it to a 3-4 bringing in a load of new talent in the process and converting a few good holdovers. Then Parcells goes and the Jets go through contortions to fit the players he acquired back into a 4-3. They draft Bryan Thomas because they want to move Shaun Ellis to DT. The linebackers get old and drop out and they don't get that all squared away until they draft Vilma in 2004. Then Herm goes and in comes Mangini and his 3-4, which never gets squared away well which is probably the primary reason among many that he is fired. Then Rex comes in and takes over a 3-4 personnel group that is sort of beginning to jell and he adds a few pieces to it and gets a great defense out of it. Then he start drafting pieces for the 46. Both of the defensive linemen taken in the last two years are great fits in a 46 with Wilkerson good in a 3-4 and Coples maybe good in a 4-3. Other than the 46 there is no front that Wilkerson AND Coples are both going to be very good in together. So now Rex leaves town taking the 46 with him and the Jets are for the 5th time in 18 years up in the air on the defensive front with more talent hanging out there in the wind waiting to blow away. Casualties of the Jets shifting defensive fronts: 1998: Hugh Douglas 2001: James Farrior 2005: John Abraham 2008: Jonathan Vilma 2013: ? If you lose a pro bowl caliber player in your front 7 every time you change coaches, well that's the difference between being the Steelers and being the Jets.
IMHO, I don't think Rex is getting the blame for the things that he should be. The Jets over the years have definitely been the butt of jokes, but never to the extent that they are now. He's the symbol of the dysfunction. Jets terrible roster the GM gets blamed and rightful so, but I think he gave Rex what he wanted. I think Rex should share blame for picking the roster. Rex has proven to be terrible with the media. His decision making with regards to his staff selection isn't good. He appears not to know who should be active and who should be inactive. There has been mismanagement of the clock, timeouts, and challenges. The way he handled our QB situation was flat out embarrassing. His stubbornness comes at the expense of the team. I’m not even a Tebow fan, but the way he was treated made me feel bad for the guy. It got to the point where I hate hearing him talk. He sounds like Baghdad Bob. He comes off so delusional. Outside of defense I can’t really think of anything positive about him. If the new GM comes, and wants Rex fine. That’s ok, but he should be able to decide. From Woody statement that doesn’t sound like that’s gonna be the case. Which is unfortunate, because I do think it will hinder our ability to get a good GM.
so if the 49ers, Patriots, Saints or Packers all found themselves in need of a GM, that GM should be able to fire Harbaugh, Belichik, Payton or McCarthy and hire their own coach?
