There comes a point when it is best for everyone to move on. The time has come. Bowles has not been helped by the drafting. That being said him and his staff has not developed people properly. Best example is Leonard Williams. He is supposed to be Aaron Donald and more looks like Sheldon Richardson. Jamal Adams has developed but I think he was going to anyway. Darnold is having what we expected with a rookie. Add in the injuries on offense and it has been tough. Plus Bowles keeps making the same in game mistakes. It's time for a different voice. The end of the season will be tough. It will only get worse with the same voice. Change the voice not that it'll be pretty at least some of the tension will be calmer.
Of course this year is not about the record but it is about the development of Darnold. He is failing at that miserably right now and if the problem isn't fixed before long you'll have Sanchez 2.0
So keep a shitty coach like Bowles who has shown he is out of his league here for the sake of not having someone immediately available to replace? Newsflash, Bowles is Kotite reincarnated. You can’t get much worse than this guy. Based on your ideology, should the Browns of kept Hugh Jackson until the offseason? Its sad that the Browns have more hope and talent than this organization.
I woke up this morning hopeful that I would read that the Jets fired Bowles, but alas, no such luck. If Bowles isn't a "dead man walking", then the Johnsons need to divest themselves of this team because they truly are clueless.
I'm not a big fan of SuperFan Chris. He is waay too much of a fan for my taste. In his role as CEO, he's gonna have to take his fan glasses off and make the tough decisions regarding this team's leadership going forward. If he's so much of a homer that he can't see what's in front of him on the field, or feels obligated to excuse it with the "rebuilding" excuse, this franchise is no better off with him than it was with Woody.
One loss to Peterman should do the trick. He's statistically one of the worst QBs to ever play the game. Think of how great this year will look years from now when we can say we lost to Hue Jackson and Nathan Peterman.
On a certain level I think I almost embrace it. There couldn't be a more jet-like thing to happen this year than losing to the second-worst coach in NFL history and a guy who is making the case on a weekly basis to be the worst QB in NFL history.
I look at it from the DP point of view. If we had a competent GM doing the drafting, I would really be all in on the tankless tank job that is 2018.
On top of all the other great reasons to fire Bowles now, here's another one (as if it's needed!): Bowles is coaching scared. He's obviously heard the uproar about how stupid he's been for punting when he's down 2+ score late in games, so what does he do yesterday when he SHOULD HAVE punted? That's right, he went for it! Despite the fact that the offense had only converted TWO of 14 3rd attempts all day, he thought "Oh yeah baby! It's 4th and 15, we can make this!". His "D" had stopped Osweiler all day...if there was EVER a time he should've punted it and counted on his "D" to get the ball back - in good field position - it was then. But NOOOOOO! He heard all the complaints from those times when he SHOULD NOT HAVE punted it, and that tipped the scales for him. He's second guessing himself, which is a sure recipe for failure. Of course, self-analysis and learning from your mistakes is the key to improving, but you can't perform when you're doubting your own ability, and it's clear that he is.
The funny thing is that every fan I know is pissed off about the state of the team. He seems more like a bad owner who is blind to the fact that his product is crap or that his company is falling apart around him than a fan.
I am not arguing that he shouldn't be fired. I'm just saying that I can't see much upside in letting him go during the season when there is nobody on the Coaching Staff who could be taken seriously as an interim replacement.
The only way you'd probably let him go in the middle of the season is if he has truly lost the team or if his influence on the offense is actually causing Darnold to not develop. We're not in the locker room to know the answer to either.
On top of that, you have to fire both Bowles and Macc. If you don't, then the only way you'll find a replacement HC is to extend Macc SEVERAL MORE YEARS. No way any coach comes here knowing his GM might get canned at the end of his first season.
