With plenty of time to reflect, I thought I would make a post about the good times Mangini brought to the Jets, instead of talking about his dictator-like qualities, 4-12 season in 2007, or the epic collapse in 2008. There were some good moments in Mangini's era, and here are my Top 5: 1. 2006 Season, Week 10: Jets-17 Patriots-14 Great win for Mangini and the Jets. Mangini went up to his former team's house and escaped with a great win. Tom Brady sacked on the last play of the game, great TD catch by Cotchery. The Patriots changed their field after this game because they felt the conditions helped the Jets. Great game. 2. 2006 Season, Week 17: Jets-23 Raiders-3 (Jets Clinch Wild Card Birth) Another great win for the Jets, after a miserable 4-12 season, the Jets finished 10-6 and made the playoffs even with a new head coach and switching from the 4-3 to the 3-4. Of course, the playoff game did not turn out well in New England. 3. 2007 Season, Week 11: Jets-19 Steelers-16 (OT) The 2007 season did not have many bright spots, but a great win by the Jets at home over the Steelers was clearly the high point of the season. There were more Steelers fans than Jets fans at the game, but Kellen Clemens and a great game played by the defense led the Jets to an impressive win. 4. 2008 Season, Week 11: Jets-34 Patriots-31 (OT) Mangini is pretty good in Week 11 overtimes games. Haha. This was one of the best games I have watched the Jets play in a long time, but of course the Jets D allowed the Patriots to get back in the game. The Jets offense was clicking all first half, and responded when it needed to in the 4th and OT. 5. 2008 Season, Week 12: Jets-34 Titans-13 One week after the great win in New England, the Jets got another great win by defeating the undefeated, 10-0, Titans in Tennessee. The Jets basically dominated the entire game and proved that they could hang with the big boys. People were proclaiming the Jets were Super Bowl caliber, we all know how that turned out, but it was a great win no matter how the rest of the season turned out. Sure, Mangini was not a great coach, but he was not as bad as some people have said. He had some good moments as coach of the Jets. How will he do with the Browns? Probably not great, but I could see him leading them to the playoffs in the future.
interesting idea... honestly those back to back games this season were some of the best of my jets career. Yeah mangini had some high quality wins, in big spots. But we could do a worst coached games one as well. Garunteed it is twice as long, and involves basically the last 4 games of 2008.
I would put the Christmas Day win in Miami (2006) that set the Jets up for the Raiders win above the Steelers for sure. Wasn't a great played game, but the implications were huge and Leon's run on the dumpoff from Chad was probably the best play I've seen by a single Jet in a decade.
Haha no doubt, but I thought I would show the highlights of Mangini's career as head coach of Gang Green. The lowlights thread would take to long to create, but would have many supporters. Another great moment: haha [YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWoNauDxGqc[/YOUTUBE] Good point. That game was great, but the horrible commentary made me forget about it I guess. The win was needed to set up Week 17 though, I agree.
Probably the best picture of the Mangini Era. I put that at #1 because it was the best win in my opinion. The Jets had no buisness winning that game. As for picture, I was going to use that one, but since it was Mangini's thread I used a Belichick-Mangini pic from the game.
Those were some great games. Oh well, we've got a great new head coach whose going to give us even more.
You guys are so f'n negative. Mangini wasn't THAT bad. My favorite moment is probably the 2006 win against the Pats. That was just sick completely fooling the Pats on our constant blitzes. We certainly "executed the game plan well" on that day.
tooo bad you dont have a pic of belechick's face when the nfl came calling about spygate and ripped him of 200 g's. now that would be a great pic.
"3. 2007 Season, Week 11: Jets-19 Steelers-16 (OT)" What I remember the most about this game was they played Shaun Ellis at OLB and like magic the defense became a dominating force. While Ellis was at OLB in that game PIT had no chance. I never understood why they didn't do this more often. Regardless of 40 times and whatever, I think Ellis is actually more mobile than BT, or at least more effective.
