Taken from Today's NY Post: Just another media hack with an axe to grind or a grim reminder of how sometimes, Coaches can be their own worst enemy.. Time will tell..
Supposedly Michaels did go off the deep end in a drunken rage after the Mud Bowl. And he had reason to given that Shula (head of the rules committee) broke a league rule that mandated covering the field with a tarp. That aside from the mysterious water pipe that broke at the OB which somehow couldn't be fixed right away either which added to the rain-induced quagmire. As for the meltdown in Oakland, you have to remember that Michaels was an assistance coach for the Jets back when Weeb was head coach and Davis at the time was not above some shady stunts such as having a helicopter fly over Jet practices (would drive Weeb nuts) as well as not allowing NY reporters to view Raider practices in contrast to the Jets extending the courtesy to West Coast reporters. Fast forward to the Jets playoff win when Michaels was head coach, he did get a call at halftime from a guy who Michaels was convinced was Al Davis pulling his chain. Turns out the caller was from a bookie back in a NYC bar who had bet against the Jets. Lance Mehl was the hero of that game picking off Plunkett twice down the stretch. Lyle Alzado was in full "roid rage" that game during an earlier fight. Besides his post-Mud Bowl meltdown, Michaels was actually noted for a slick bit of psychology: he put the winner's playoff $$-share out on the table for the players to see - IN CASH - to serve as an incentive.
I know the article was a complete pile of shit when the author did not mention Lee Elia's rant about the Cub fans. It is by far the greatest sports rant of all time. For all you young'ns who have never heard it........... [YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KGcwE4FtGw[/YOUTUBE] pardon teh retardation in posting youtube link
I guess the point of the story is that good coaches will come and go, but the crappy media with their self serving "ax to grind articles" and parochial reasons lasts forever. Yep, with the sports media it has become apparent that shit sells, talent fails
I recall that very well..., it was after the Oakland game. He had a fit over a prank phone call by some fan during halftime and blamed Al Davis for it ....it was never verified to be true - Al denied it to the media. It was a strange incident.
Matt, I think every Jet fan across America was ready to hop a flight down to Florida and feed Shula to the sharks piece by piece.
Nice catch! Definitely a miss by the writer. I don't think that punched Herm's ticket out of town though.
Am I the only one who feels like this is totally made up by the media, and being totally exaggerated. It's like the media is mad that Rex isn't giving them nonstop material and are trying to destroy him. I haven't heard of a single player not even an "anonymous" source say anything bad about Rex this year. This just seems made up to me, repeat a lie enough times until it's the truth.
You can't make up quotes like those used by the writer. You may not like the coverage the jets are getting these days but every one of those quotes can be verified. Those meltdowns did actually happen and so did the consequences. The media isn't out to destroy Rex. I'm thinking all of that bragging and boasting Rex did on the way is coming home to roost in the form of the extra attention Rex gets whatever he does. He doesn't help himself by trying to stay under the radar either. Rex has always said: "put it on me.." and now?, he's getting what he wished for. Look, for what its worth, Rex is in an impossible situation right now and frankly, I don't know how he puts up with it everyday if for no other reason that he's not a quitter. His meltdown just painted another bullseye on his formerly broad shoulders. the author just pointed out what has happened to prior NY coaches in any sport when they did the same.
This is like the real life football equivalent of the scene in The Natural when sportswrter Max Mercy ( Robrert Duvall) is telling Roy Hobbs , the star player, "They come and they go.... I'll be around here longer than you or anybody else here. I'm here to protect this game. I do it by making or breaking the likes of you. And after today whether you're a goat or a hero, you're gonna make me a great story." Now that the circus has left town ,the media wants a story and the storry is Ryan' presser and they want to use it to bring Ryan down. It is the last vestiges of print media in sports. In 5 years there will be no Daily News or Post. I'm surprisedRyan has held it together with this group of snakes for this long. He needs to just start with the no comments and other simplified answers.
When did Rex have a meltdown? The guy mocked the media at a presser and I found it hilarious,meltdown gimmie a break ,Why do I feel like Manish Meta made this thread?
Pretty much. The coverage of this team is on a level all by itself. If you ask me, this is the media spouting more BS to make themselves feel legitimate. Rex Ryan telling an assclown to fuck off is not a meltdown, or anything of importance. Rex telling John Idzik or Woody Johnson to fuck off behind closed doors is 5,000 times more likely to cost him his job. The media that covers this team does their collective job with about as much integrity as a politician in an airport bathroom stall, yet they expect, hell, demand, to be treated with the highest respect, and if they don't get it, they take their pens out for blood. Ass clowns like Manish Mehta go to work every day, and publish garbage that makes Rex, his players, and his bosses look bad, based on "facts" pulled directly out of his asshole. He ignites "controversies" out of thin air which in turn become stories and make Rex Ryan's job a living hell that often has nothing to do with actually coaching football. He has claimed on multiple occasions that the Jets QB competition was rigged....only it was in favor of a different fucking candidate each time. He spent all last year trying to make Tim Tebow, who throws a football like my fucking sister, a legitimate QB threat, so that could become a controversy. Yet when Rex Ryan Stands at the podium he's supposed to treat "writers" like Mehta, Cimini, so on and so forth with the utmost calmness, respect, and honesty, or else he's "losing it", and the calls for his job fill up the newspapers. Nonsense. Manish Mehta can go fuck himself all the way around the entirety of the world using a bicycle with a seat missing. It's about time that the person he fucks over on a daily basis starts treating him like it. The PROBLEM with Rex Ryan, is that he started his tenure off by being honest with these people, naive enough to think they wouldn't twist the knife in his back the second they had the chance, and now he's created a culture where the people that cover this team expect to be fed controversy whenever they want it. Rex has learned his lesson, but it's too late. It's always good to be honest, but that doesn't make everyone deserving of your honesty. There's a reason that every single NFL head coach of any sort of tenure has perfected how to not say a god damn thing to these people no matter how many words they use to do it. Because none of them are there to report the news, they're there to sell papers. Codeword for create drama whenever the slightest window for it opens. Going right back to the super bowl guarantees. You don't think every single coach of a good team think's they're winning the super bowl every year? They just know not to share that feeling with the parasites holding tape recorders. Rex didn't learn that lesson until a good 4 years into his tenure, and now the media is going all Lord of the Flies on his ass. I just hope that Idzik and Woody can stay above the nonsense, because IMO, the guy knows how to fucking coach football and motivate football players, and isn't going to be easily replaced AT ALL, if the media gets their wish and gets to knock another one off that they're tired of.
