Who was your starter last year ? Sackelroy? Right. Tanny hired Sparano, and Tanny was responsible for the lack of WR depth. Not Rex. With no offense whatsoever. They. Still won 6. Most teams playing guys off the street at skill positions, would be looking at a 3 or 4 win season.
You dont know what you are talking about. Gabbert,henne,skelton,fitzpatrick,jackson all say hello. He's had the worst offensive coaching, the last 4 seasons.
His refusal to bench Sanchez last year until it was too late was it for me........lets see how it goes in 2013.....but it will probably be one and done...............
I am no Tebow fan, but i at least was slightly interested to see what he could've done had he been given the chance to start a game... *cough week 17 against Buffalo cough*. Realizing there was nothing left to lose, Rex should've taken charge of the situation and given him the start. After all, how can you know what you have in a guy if you never even give him a chance??
You can know what you have in a guy by watching how he performs for you when he is not on the field during a game. Tebow would have taken the Jets QB job last year if he took practice seriously and prepared to play as well as he believes he will play once he hits the field. There are no NFL coaches who take anything on faith. They want to see it in operation before the guy hits the field. Tebow is going to be a cut in New England if he doesn't bear down hard in practice and convince the Pats coaching staff that he's giving everything he's got.
The Jets are doing the right thing with Rex at this point. He's under contract for two years and there's a new GM in house. You let the GM evaluate Rex this year and then proceed from there. If the Jets hadn't suffered December collapses two years running the calculus might be different. I'm a fan of Rex's and especially of his defenses but the Jets need to be a better team in December than what they have shown lately. This is a good year to see if they can turn that around because the December schedule is pretty balanced with 3 lighter games (Oak, @Car, Cle) and the season series against what should be a tough Fin squad as the bookends.
He's a Coordinator, not a head coach. He is also a QB killer, he no idea how to manage the position. He should have been fired after the Titans game when he deactivated MCelroy and Sanchez shit in his pants and we had no backup and we lost the game because Tebow is not a QB. He does not manage the clock correctly and treats Sanchez like he's his son. Also, he hired Sprano and OL coach as our offensive coordinator and he was a moron. It worked for a year or two, but the party is over. He's a bufoon just like his dad. I wish otherwise but after this year, I don't ever want to see Rex or Mex on the Jets
AGREED! No free ride, either win or you're gone. The team and the Defense was gotten worse evry year he has been here. YES, two champioship games the first two years, but we lost them and have been losing more ever since. Not impressed anymore. He lost his grit and edge when he lost the weight. Litterally, half the guy he was before, I want the old Rex back or for him to hit the road. He nor his defense scares anyone.
He gets to coach the players that Tannenshit gave him, not the ones you might want him to have. With that garbage he has been absolutely great.
Pulling Sanchez in the Arizona game was about the right timing. The mistake was going back.... i agree with you there. Consider though that Tebow had broken ribs at that time, and wasn't much of an option anyway. That left a 3rd stringer as the only alternative. Compile that with the stupid fact that the organization invested heavily in the future with Sanchez. You can thank Tanny/Woody for the terrible long term investment in Sanchez, while bringing in a side show rather than a true backup for competition. The options at QB were just terrible last year. The only thing that has really changed this year is the addition of a rookie. I fear that Rex job hangs on how quickly that rookie can adapt to the NFL, with limited playmakers surrounding him. Personally, i'd love to see what Rex can accomplish with a solid QB on the roster. I'm hoping beyond hope that Geno Smith can be that guy....and quickly. Asking too much? maybe..
Keep watching Espn for your jets evaluation, they have no grasp of what the jets reality is. You keep saying Sanchez was the problem yet you don't want to give Rex a chance with the newly drafted qb. As for playing veterans, you don't throw a third round pick into the fire when the defensive leader Bart Scott is still around. Too many opportunities for rookie mistakes, same goes for the safety position. The lack of talent has been the problem the last two years that falls on the gms shoulders not Rex. Rex has proven what he can do with a talented roster, lets wait and see if our gm can do his job before we fire our best coach since bill parcels
Does anyone genuinely believe that we are in worse shape going into this season than we were going into last season?? The media certainly does, opposing teams and their fans do as well.. The point is, give RR a chance (more than just the upcoming season) to see if the 3-headed monster consisting of Rex, MM, and Idzik has real chemistry. It's not as if there are a number of top, realistic head coaching options out there waiting for us to come court them. I'd say at this point, we're lucky to have Rex and we should continue to support him in the years coming.
The QB decisions last year were questionable but so were all the QB's. People taking Rex to task for going back to Sanchez after the McElroy start are forgetting that McElroy was concussed coming out of that start. If McElroy was healthy he probably continues starting at the end of the season. Tebow was never really an option and is a red herring in the whole argument.
5-6 years is too long. I think 4 years is the right amount of time, barring a disaster that makes you reconsider earlier. It's been 4 years. What I've seen is a coach that has had success despite never having a passing game. You want to blame the offensive coordinator for everything, fine. I think you're nuts not to blame the QB, too, but whatever. Bottom line, Rex has never had an effective QB in 4 years. Give Rex an effective quarterback, and he could be a great coach. It's very difficult to succeed without much of a passing game four straight seasons.
Because Tebow was not expected to be back in 2013, while Sanchez was. So it made sense to put Sanchez out there and see if he can close the season on a decent note.
This is a head coaching function though. Rex needs to find a QB and *effectively* go all-in on him. That means doing everything he can to see that the guy succeeds, even if it means making his defense practice normal NFL defensive schemes a substantial portion of the time to give *his* QB the best possible chance to succeed against those schemes. And yes, I know there's no such thing as normal in the NFL but what Rex does is as far from normal as you can get. Asking your offense to practice against Martians all the time and then play against Humans isn't exactly the most effective way to get good production out of them.
Rex is not blameless. He needs to give the QB every chance to succeed. Not sure if dumbing down his defensive schemes in practice to give the QBs false confidence is the right answer or not, but Sanchez's lack of development does fall partially at Rex's feet. We know he's not an offensive coach, but he still needs to find a way to make it work, or hire the right people to make it work. Hopefully, Marty is that guy. Don't think he will (or should) get a 4th offensive coordinator.
