We get New England at home and Buffalo twice, a long way to go. The first Rex year, by the end of October we were losing 4 of 5, lost Jenkins and Leon pretty much forever and we ended up in the AFC Championship Game. Loooong way to go.
Rex is singing a familiar tune. http://espn.go.com/blog/afceast/post/_/id/32662/rex-ryan-jets-still-super-bowl-bound
Great thread. One day down the road we will be talking about the dark days of the Rex Ryan/Mike Tannenbaum era of the New York Jets. Gone, are the glory days of Joe Walton, Bruce Coslet and Rich Kotite. Those were the days, my friends, those were the days...
this has to be one of the most clueless posts i've ever read here. absolutely does not know what he's talking about. everything is actually the oposite of what he states.
Ok ill learn,but ppl sound like clevelanders. One little losing streak and every ones got to go? See how that works for the browns. I don't like them in part because they don't know how to keep a coaching staff together. Starting from scratch every couple of years.
honestly feels EXACTLY like when Mangini was here.....average run/pass/ defense The longer Rex is here i feel the less he really understands WHAT exactly he is trying to accomplish as a team.
ha, you know what I mean. That togetherness atmosphere does more than we know for this team. This team has the same feel as the same unfocused, distracted when preparing teams we've seen for decades. Holding TC where the team focuses on just football is very important. The lockout fucked things up.
The way I'd put the Schottenheimer situation right now is that it may not be all his fault but after 5+ years of seeing stuff like this isn't it time to make a change? If you keep doing the same thing and expecting different results something is wrong. The Jets initially thought they would lose Schotty after a couple of seasons because he'd fire up the offense and get hired away as a head coach. Well he hasn't fired up the offense and he's had no serious bites for a head coaching position in 2+ years. Doesn't that tell us something?
He's done a good job for us in his time here, we haven't had the explosive players or the offensive philosophy from the HC to have a top 5 O. He would likely be the HC in Buf today, remember he declined interviews during our '09 run.
He has not done a good job for us. Our offense has been consistently mediocre during his time here except for the 11 games he had a healthy Brett Favre running it and we all know Favre was not running the playbook just the plays he felt comfortable executing. He refused to interview in Buffalo because he didn't like the opportunity there. It's not clear he would have gotten the job even if he did talk to them. Read this if you want the skinny on what happened in the search: http://www.buffalorising.com/2010/01/bills-fans-waiting-for-coach-godot.html Key quote: "Brian Schottenheimer, the Jets offensive coordinator with a not-terribly-impressive resume, is the latest to reject the Bills request for a conversation." That's how the NFL saw Schotty two years ago. I wonder how they will see him at the end of this season?
Favre had a good 3-4 game stretch, Favre ruined our season. Brian has had many issues to deal w/ and again he hasn't had explosive players and the offensive philosophy from the HC. he's done a fine job here, it's whiny Jet fans who always want to run the OC out of town when things don't go well. Fans are the same everywhere, in the satnds in Foxboro for our dic rd game last year all the fans were whining about the OC, same deal in Pitt the next week. It's about execution not the playcalls and when your OL stinks it's hard to execute.
Doesn't coaching turn good players into great players? Look what the Giants have done with so many injured players. Cruz looks like he's been going to the Pro Bowl for years. You pop him in our offense and he wouldn't get a target passed 10 yards.
You are saying Cruz is a great player? How did that offense do w/ all those great WRs a year ago? their QB threw 25 INTs, our QB helped us get to the title game. It's hard to throw beyond 10 yards when your OL is as bad as ours has been. he barely has time to throw 5 yd passes.
Good Lord no, just saying with the right OC players are made to be better not worse. Totally too this the wrong way, it was a tiny example, not saying the Giants are the team we should model ours after. It's the same shit in NO, yes they have a great QB but no matter what WR they put in they're making plays, that's because the OC designs plays where they're OPEN. I could hit these guys with passes.
Drew Brees is in NO. We still have a young QB. Every year we have major upheavel. This year w/ injuries on the OL we had 3 new WRs for Mark to throw to w/ no offseason and limited TC. That has to factor in.
