do other coaches run through the stats like he does? I'm sick and tired of losing and hearing him talk to yardage stats and QB ratings its so annoying. Also - such a damn shame that on the night they honor Chrebet against the Dolphins they can't complete a pass and the stadium is full of fish fans.
He has nothing else to talk about. He can't talk about the score, obviously. He can't talk about player performance because it all stinks. The coaching sucks, the fans aren't there any more, and Tebow isn't here to deflect attention away from his incompetence. He's got nothing. It would be so much better if he just stood in the press room and let the media throw eggs and tomatoes at him for 20 minutes.
Good God. With the massive problem this team displays the best we can do is keep crapping about Rex's responses at the press conference. What did you want him to say? I played this game to loose, Geno sucks worst than any QB in the league but I had no choice, or more appropriately, fuck the Jets ownership and the total lack of support and guidance I received during my tenure here. Fuck IDZIK for his inability to staff a half ass decent team, lack of CB, WR, and a complete moron of a QB he so craftly selected in the second round. Fine with that but loosing Rex will not solve shit unless the leadership is deguted and replaced with football savvy people. Fat chance in hell for that to happen. So after Rex goes what then? are we stranded in no man land with an bean counter for a GM and politician for an owner? And worst, a bunch of incompetent coaches and a dismal draft evaluation team. Please consider what talented coach in his right mind would want to come here, and more importantly where is the real GM coming from? We have beaten the "Rex must go drum" to death and back already. I personally think he partially dug his own grave, and was not smart enough to understand he would get no support from the buffoons who run this team. If I was him I would have stepped down last year and tell them to fuck off a la BB. I suspect he will be gainfully employed and doing what he knows best, football, way before the NYJ organization shows the loyal fans a plan forward that can make us proud......for once. Don't hold your breath.
I think Rex is handling this all pretty gracefully. Apparently he's been a lame duck coach all year, and he's the only one who didn't know it. He still seems to genuinely believe the team can produce a few W's despite the fact that he is standing right in the middle of the embers. I'm not apologizing for Rex, but I still have a lot of respectful for him. Beating the Steelers, holding the Dolphines to 16 points, and planning relatively effectively against the likes of Tom Brady and Peyton Manning (despite offense throwing the games) is going to go a long way getting Rex a new job next year (whether DC or HC, who knows).
Actually, the "Fire Rex" drum has been joined by the "Blow it up Woody" orchestra. Not only do most of us want Rex gone, but Idzik could beat him out the door and nary a tear would be shed. Time for a clean slate LA. I think this fanbase could stomach that as long as we don't get another clown car scenario to replace the one we got now.
What 's the "best case scenario" for the Jets at this point? Will 2 wins get us Mariota, a new GM and a new coach? Best case scenario Mariota is as good as a rookie as say Andrew Luck, but without talent around him, probably not. While we wait for the offense to develop, what happens to the defense? I'm just not sure how it's supposed to go having seen it done so wrong for so long.
Look the guys came to play. It was the coaching staff that fucked it up. I don't believe in any conspiracy theories. They had the guys prepared and motivated and then "they" (the coaches) choked during the game. Marty never seems to get it right. It's either overkill passing or overkill running. Never a smart mix.
Defensively, yes, they are for the most part motivated and playing hard for Rex.. offensively, though, there are a lot of guys that have packed it in. Idzik's $36 Million dollar receiver is one of them. Not saying I am necessarily blaming him/guys like him considering the circumstances but he's thinking about tee times right now.
Geno would have a chance at developing after a few more years in an uncapped system and with a great talent evaluation team that could assemble Franco Harris, Lynn Swann, the 70's Steelers offensive line and the Steel Curtain defense. That would be the Terry Hanratty story. The Steelers, after drafting Hanratty in the 2nd round in 1969 took a look at what they had and went back to the drawing board by drafting Terry Bradshaw with the #1 pick in 1970. Then it took Bradshaw 4 years to make the job his.
I though they didn't play for him in the Buffalo game but they came to play last night. I don't believe he tanked it yesterday but it sure looked like it. You don't keep running into a stacked line when they are daring you to throw the ball. And are playing practice squad guys at cornerback.
Well said. I think the moves made early in the off season, way before the draft will speak volumes about the results. Keeping our GM is not a good start.
It's so hard to call this though. Do you really think Geno has a lot more to show at this point than he showed out there last night? Did you not watch the three scattershot interceptions in one quarter of play in the first Buffalo game? Players aren't immune to realizing they suck even with the heroic impulse all athletes have to be the guy. Geno's had a lot of starts at this point and he knows he's not a good QB or even close to it. Could he develop into a good QB? The odds are against it but at this point he knows he's not good. The NFL is a rough competition. It doesn't allow guys to stick around indefinitely without getting the job done and particularly not at QB. Last year's 8-8 kind of hurt the Jets because they probably should have been like 2-9 after 11 and Geno done and the Jets drafting another QB at some point in the 2014 draft or signing a vet that shook loose like Matt Schaub with the plan to draft a QB this year. The Panthers didn't give Jimmy Clausen more starts after the 1-10 his rookie year. That was enough for them to evaluate him effectively and move on. If they'd gone 5-6 in those starts with some lucky wins along the way they might not have been able to move on so quickly.
BTW, the thing to think about last night was how good the Jets defensive front was without Mo Wilk. That's an enormous strength at the moment and it gives the Jets some options down the road.
Agreed. The thing I keep thinking is even though the Dolphins are a mediocre rush defense, its still impressive to run 200+yards in the first half. And the ground game was still productive in the second half with 9 defenders in the box. It shows the Jets have some great talent at the RB positions and the line can still do a good job. So if anything the coaching staff made Idzik's case by showing the team can dominate the game in certain areas but because the HC cant adapt his strategy the team still loses games. It falls on Rex.
It really wasn't Geno's fault last night. He did throw a couple of good hard passes. Tannehill was off, too. But overall he isn't the answer. He might have a good CFL career but not here.
It's funny - that always struck me how, ten minutes after the game at his postgame presser, Rex seems to always know the full stat sheet right down to the yard or number. Not just last night. And it's not really a criticism. I suppose it's good that he has such a firm grasp of such things. On the other hand, I think of the head coach as the Big Picture guy, who gets a fully detailed report from everyone first thing Monday morning, but not necessarily as he's walking off the field. Just an observation. No need to invent new ways to criticize a head coach with a 2-10 record. The man had a couple good years and a good load of fun while that lasted. Now, it's just time to shake hands and part ways. In 15 years it'll all be a blur, and new Jets fans will look back and ask about a guy named "Rextite."
