Unpopular opinion but I’m still good with saleh getting 3 years. Very happy we didn’t go the vet route to appease the masses like we usually do.
Don't we go the first time route more often? Herm, Mangini, Rex, Bowles, Gase, and Saleh are our six most recent HC's and only Gase had experience. I acknowledge there was no Holmgren or Reid available last offseason, so a first time HC was basically a given.
Douglas is as much a part of the problem as anybody. Traded up for a LG and the offense and defense both suck.
The only established veteran head coach I can remember showing interest in the Jets since Woody bought the team was Mike McCarthy during the Gase hire. And as it turns out, he really likes meddling owners.
The only word I can describe our roster with is crummy. Saleh is a lackluster coach but our GM is a genuinely crummy team builder.
I meant a bunch of vet signings to propel the team to a false and fleeting mediocrity. I worded it badly. My fault.
That was not a bad move, AVT is going to be a pro bowl caliber player for ten years. He will have another good draft in 2022. I will guarantee you Saleh and company will guide team to another 3 win or less season next year.
I don’t think Lafleur is good, Jets numbers on offense speak for themselves. He’s too gimmicky and doesn’t rely enough on rushing the ball to help out his QB. Even when running game is working he immediately goes away from it instead of sticking with it. He reminds me of Schottenheimer in his approach to play calling.
A 3-win (or so) season is almost certainly coming next year, regardless of who the coach is. This team is completely void of talent and next year's lineup of opponents is absolutely brutal. I'm not expecting this team to win more than five games until at least 2023, maybe even 2024.
I think the right move would be to a complex in the northeast Bronx. The location should be accessible to Metro North and the NYC Subway system along with 95 and the Deegan. You'd want to expand the Metro North and Subway stations that were immediately adjacent to the stadium, alongside creating some express services on game days. The complex would also include all the team offices and facilities in an interior location. Facing the public would be the stadium, restaurants, a hotel and the parking areas. You'd probably want to put in a terminal to service the many buses, limos and cabs that the area received. That would be the basic package. The idea would be to create a great experience for fans that was widely accessible across the tri-state area. Fans in NJ would drive across the bridge and have easy access. There would also be alternatives that included bus service across the bridge and taking the train into 34th street and onto the express train north from there. Fans in LI would drive in and then across the Triboro to the stadium. There would also be plans to drive into Woodside and park there and onto the express trains at the Woodside station. The LIRR hooks up at Woodside for people that want to ditch their cars at their local stops. For people coming downstate to the Jets games the NY state thruway into 87 would be the best method however tourists coming south for a week around the game could ride Amtrak down to one of the link points, stay in the hotel(s) at the complex and have easy access any number of different ways to NYC proper. For people coming southwest from New England you'd have 95 and 91 serving the role of long distance conduit and it would be a 2 to 4 hour ride with no bridge traffic at the end to fight both ways. They could use Amtrak as well to get into one of the link points and to the complex. You could run *easy* junkets from Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun to bring people into the games and get them out cleanly afterwards. The casinos would definitely be interested in setting up this kind of service for their high rollers and probably comping Jets tickets along the way. The possibilities are kind of endless however instead we are trapped in the swamp in NJ because the Giants decided this was the cheap way out when NYC went south for a decade FORTY FIVE years ago.
I like @Br4d and I enjoy reading his posts. When he’s not jaded he makes excellent points, he made two the other day that were spot on, and which I agreed wholeheartedly with. I’m not trying to antagonize him either, I don’t do that to our members, at least not on purpose. However I do get your point.
Duke Johnson. Below average, journeyman RB for 6 3/4 seasons. Suddenly emerges as a superstar in week 15 of his 7th season! Thanks Robert Saleh!! Making player's careers!!... --- who is next? I got money on Chris Manhertz this week. Who is that??? WHO Cares. Career highs this week!
Saleh is never going to turn this team around even if he's here for 10 years if he truly believes his gusto about how the problems aren't as big as they seem and his coaches are actually doing a good job.
I saw a lot of good in the miami game. Two more o line picks, an edge, and a linebacker and i think we have a functional team
You must live in Westchester. The Jets belong in Queens. Right next to CitiField. Right where Shea Stadium used to be. The way to get there would be the same way people go to Mets games...and used to go to Jets games.
So you didn't see him needing to be restrained from going on the field with the D by another member of the CS when they got the first interception on Sunday then?
Queens is less accessible to a 270 degree arc of fans coming in from New England, Upstate and New Jersey. A field there creates more vehicular traffic for the city proper in an era when the city is clearly trying to minimize vehicular traffic in congested areas. The long-term dynamics suggest population moving away from eastern Queens/LI as climate change raises sea levels and makes storms more unpredictable and devastating. The places they are most likely to move to are along the Hudson Valley and east of it as critical infrastructure is built in those areas to support a rising denser population.
