Great article! No clue why that hack is so against Marrone. I've seen the likes of Mawae, Curtis Martin, and Brandon Moore go to bat for Marrone and def trust them over that bum.
Should just have grabbed harbaugh. But unfortunately woody doesnt have the foresight to make power moves like that.
Im sure if woody opened the coffers and offered full control itd have been a done dea. Double what michigan offers, give harbaugh full control, youd triple your fucking psl revenue two years down the line. Unfortunately woody lacks the foresight/cojones to pull off a ballsy move like thar
Pay Harbaugh 16 million a year? So he's worth 7-8 million more per year than Belichick now? Not sure if srs post or if just retarded.
Sorry when youre a shit franchise like the new york jets youre going to have no choice but to overpay for talent. Also thay , oney doesnt count against the cap so why would you care? Harbaugh would be worth that much to us- someone who has a history of grooming qbs as well as coaching up a defense. Give him full control of the gm side as well. Watch the magic happen.
Just because Woody doesn't know much about football does not mean that he is always wrong. Bringing in Wolf and Casserly to help him find the men who can rebuild this franchise is the best thing he has done since he got here. Sure its possible that they get it wrong. People do make mistakes, With that being said Woody has stacked the deck in his favor this time.
Great article. Very reasoned and actually made me feel better about the concurrent GM/coach interviewing. I didn't see the point if bringing on Cassserly/Wolf to just hand Marrone the job but this piece clears that up.
Fantastic article...I am guilty of jumping the gun a bit and have, lately, realized I need to reel my overreacting ass back in. Nothing has been done and no one has been hired...until that point in time I'm going to sit on the sidelines and worry about talent acquisition and enjoy the playoffs. I was really hoping the Bengals would have gotten through but it was not to be. Now I have to move my focus to my b0y Aaron Rodgers and pray he notches another one on the discount double check belt.
He's wrong, for several reasons: 1. Who's in charge of the search? Casserly or Wolf? Only one guy can be in charge. And if it's Casserly? Why him? Casserly failed spectacularly in his last job and had a 10 year track record of diminished results in the previous job. 2. If the preference is to hire the GM before coach, why are we interviewing coaches? Isn't the newly hired GM going to want to interview them all and do the process himself? If not, he's an imbecile. 3. Marrone is going to get hired. "The initial perception was the Jets would blow up their entire coaching search to hire Marrone." - that's because that's exactly what they were going to do. Then it became blatantly obvious that someone tampered to get Marrone to take the out in his contract, so now everyone is in full-fledged "pretend there's a real honest to goodness search going on" so that it doesn't look like Casserly came in and said "this is the guy that's going to be the coach" and got him to quit his old job for the Jets one. It's all for show. 4. The GM search is for show too; there's no way Casserly doesn't (1) already know who it's going to be, and (2) know that the GM is okay with Marrone as his HC. But Casserly needs to make it look like he's doing some long pronounced search with tons of interviews and double-checks, so that it doesn't look like he just came in and gave two of his buddies the job. Which is exactly what's going to happen. It's going to be Marrone and Maccagnan, but they've got to go through the motions first. 5. "If they waited to interview Seahawks defensive coordinator Dan Quinn, they might be waiting until after the Super Bowl because it looks like that is where Seattle is headed." So what? If he's the best candidate, I don't care if they hire him the day before next season starts. It's not like we're going to miss out on the Super Bowl next year because we have to wait an extra three weeks to make a HC hire. The one thing he did get right, though, is that Manish is a douche that is attacking Marrone. But that's because he hates the Jets and knows that the hire is going to be made; he's just getting himself "on-record" as saying Marrone sucks so that he can say "I told you so" when we actually hire him a week from now.
The best thing that could come out of this is hiring Maccagnan who seems to be stud in the making. Once we hire a GM/HC, Casserly is of no use to the Jets franchise.
True. If they hire a GM, then the consultants have to move aside. I cannot see the Jets sitting on their hands waiting for Quinn, though. They might pray for Seattle to lose, but I think Seattle is going to the show. So Bowles and Marrone are decent bets. I do not buy Reich. Maybe Kubiak?
They videotape these interviews. I've personally handled this for another professional league. Also, I'm not sure the GM would actually ask the questions, I'm sure Wolfe and Casserly would be the interviewers, so watching the videos at a later time wouldn't be a big obstacle. Also, if the new GM likes someone on the video, they can call them back for a second interview...
Have you noticed that just about every reply here is in response to this obsessiveness with Manish? I agree with the Costello article 100% I also feel that every reporter/beat writer has a duty and obligation to give his/her insights to any issues or events in order for others to form an intelligent and comprehensive view on the matters affecting their interests. If Marrone or, anyone else, has issues and skeletons in the closet or questionable character quirks, that should and must be exposed. I'm sure others can find faults in Quinn or Kubiak , also.
And we all know the love affair Pettine had with Manish. Maybe Pettine didn't like Marrone and fed Manish fodder.
Idzik didn't give the reporters jack shit. He tried to stop the leaks and got his ass kicked for it. We all know Rex knew how to use them. Almost everything we heard for years was pro Rex.
