Subtract the penalties - and it's reasonable to believe this game was an anomaly partly attributable to flag happy officials - and the "bad coaching" boils down to two questionable challenges, one of which was probably the result of someone in the booth giving Rex bad info. Rex has the "D" playing great, offense showing signs of life, team chemistry is good. Anyone screaming for Rex's head right now is a durn fool.
First two sentences are spot on. I don't think it is even a debate if Rex is a great HC - He is not and I can't fathom anyone arguing he is. The debate is if he is in the good to acceptable range in that role or not. Personally I don't think he is. A head coaches job is so much more than 1 side of the ball. It also requires having good instincts, judgement and management on game day.
He's terrible. 1. The team has had poor discipline for years (today, for example). That's on Rex. 2. His clock management skills are awful. 3. Mark Sanchez may have had talent. We'll never know, he was ruined by Rex. 4. He has a big mouth, and can't back it up. 5. He has a foot fetish. OK, never mind number 5.
I agree. I think Rex has to stop challenging the spot. It's meaningless and never works He had to call the second challenge quickly because of the high speed offense the Bills were runnng. He gets a pass there I'm only concerned about not declining the penalty. Not a great move. Lets see if any of the geniuses ask him about this in the post game
Not the best game by the Jets, but blaming it all on Rex? Please. There are guys upstairs watching replays who tell Rex to challenge stuff. Blame them for shitty challenges. As for the million penalties, the refs seemed to have an agenda but the players were getting lazy.
Considering what these guys are paid, Rex most certainly CAN rip into these guys. They're not kids, they're grown men and need to be held accountable.
I really don't care 2-1 record, and if geno had a little more experience 3-0, with a team that everyone said didn't have a chance. I think that is called good coaching
This thread is a joke. The job of a head coach goes so far beyond challenges. The Jets defense was great and the offense had over 500 yards of offense. And this is supposed to be a bad offense. I agree the challenges were bad and cost the Jets a turnover at a key point in the game. The person criticizing the acceptance of the holding penalty has it wrong. It was 3rd and 24 instead of 4th and 10. The next play was a 17 yard completion to Chandler which would have been a first down if the penalty were declined. The Jts the got the stop on the next play.
Rex is a great defensive coach That might be enough to overcome his other mistakes They happen ALL the time with EVERY OTHER COACH, BTW
Yeah the discipline problems we didn't have the first two games? Sorry there has been no consistentcy of poor discipline. Clock management skills are okay, average at best. He did a great job this week with this. Yes Rex ruined Sanchez by taking away Braylon and Cotch and Damien. Screw Rex for telling Tanny to do nothing and taking over the GM job. Ahh yes that big mouth and can't back it up. How does that affect his coaching ability. Just read #5, I just wasted two minutes responding to a troll
Not the worst ever, but it was horrendous, for sure. Rex sucks with in-game head coaching decisions. I don't know why, but he never learns.
This is a really bad team on paper. We shouldn't be so spoiled to take it for granted when we beat anybody in any way. Under Rex Ryan, I don't think our performance level has ever fallen beneath our talent level for a long period of time. I don't "love" his persona and I groan every time he makes the ~one absolutely inexcusable gameday decision per two weeks, but he has my support 100%. We've had some real clunkers.
What exactly was so bad about the coaching today? Being aggressive and going for it on two 4th downs? Failed challenges? This kind of shit happens all the time.....
Shake off the dust and find ONE GAME RELATED THEAD OR POST that mentions Herm Edwards tonite. If you're gonna show up every other blue moon, have the courtesy to use recent examples in your posts. In the mean time, try participating more and perhaps you wouldn't be viewed as irrevelant.
Both challenges were egregious, and we played a very undisciplined game, but accusing Rex of being a bad coach is laughable.
Because Edwards and Cotchery and Woody have done so much on other teams after leaving the Jets. What a ridiculous statement. I am hoping it was sarcasm that I didn't recognize rather than parroting stupid comments made by others.
Damien retired, but he played well before the injury. Braylon got hurt, but there's knowing he gets hurt if we bring him back. Cotch has a been a reliable WR who doesn't drop passes. You don't think if we focused on keeping the core we had after 2010 all 3 players would have fallen off and not played decent? I think they all would filled in nicely and the consistency would have been great for the offense and Sanchez
Well, sorry. I found #5 funny. You didn't. It makes me a troll? Meh. We've had discipline problems for years, really even before the Rex era, but it's gotten worse. The factors you named on Sanchez' ruin are key, but Sanchez was thrown into the lions den of the hyper fast, hyper strong NFL with extremely limited college experience (he started, I believe, 15 games). You'll note I didn't even mention the challenges, the first of which was especially foolish.
Not to be a PITA, but isn't HC's job to teach discipline on the field among other things? I mean, if Rex is indeed the HC of the NYJ's, why does it feel as though Rex is the DC instead...?
