...he'd send us all a salve sometime this weekend, Friday or Saturday, and announce some big signing. A coach, a trade, something. Something to steal the focus off the Super Bowl and something to take the sting out of a very uncomfortable week of Patriots and Giants glory. But he's the anti-Steinbrenner, so we can't expect anything. Still, if the Jets were smart, they'd do something; here are some suggestions: -Introduce the new defensive or offensive coordinator -Announce that one of the preseason games will be played at Shea this year -Announce they've made a trade for Vilma and they're getting a 2nd rounder back -Proclaim that there will be no PSLs for the new stadium! -Announce that season ticket prices have been rolled back to 1968 and will remain there until the Jets finally return to the Super Bowl! Please, Woody, do something. And for God's sake, don't get caught giving any quotes about how happy you are for the Mara family.
The NFL frowns on teams making annoucments during SB week. They want full attention paid to the SB teams. It's very important to know what Tom Brady's favorite food is or what medication Tom Coughlin takes for keeping his composure on the sideline.ats_suck:
I can gaurantee you that if Steinbrenner was owner there would not be any big signing or big trade this week..
Um, the trade window and free agency have not opened yet. Two of your suggestions are just plain bad business. Why would it be "smart" for the Jets to do something that costs them money? Also, which Steinbrenner would we get? The one that traded Roberto Kelly for Paul O'Neill and signed Reggie Jackson? Or the one that traded Jay Buhner for Ken Phelps and signed Danny Tartabull, Jack Clark, Dave Collins, Ed Whitson, Andy Hawkins. I'm all for making a splash, but only if it improves the team, not just to grab a headline.
In my oppinion if Steinbrenner were the Jets owner there would have been a ground breaking ceremony for our New statdium like 2 years ago and we would have the making by now of a dominate team. Steinbrenner has learned over time that standing pat (No Punn intended) is not the way to build a great team!
Are you going to ignore the entire decade of the 1980's when Steinbrenner completely failed? And he didn' stand pat then, just made one bad deal after another. And they haven't won in 7 seasons this decade either.
Because the Yankees really made big announcements during the last few World Series. Is there a salary cap in baseball yet? We're our own team, we shouldn't as an organization worry about the Giants. Maybe the Patriots, but not the Giants.
But...but...headlines mean they want to win NOW and they have FIRE and a WILL TO WIN and BALLS and KNOWHOW and any other super exciting buzzword.
Negative! Thats why I said over time Steinbrenner learned that staying pat is not what you do to make a great team! The yanks had the same roster year after year and didnt add the power house players till the end of the 80's and that didint help either till the mid 90's . Plus during those years it was pitching that did them in year after year. Maybe I should be super clear and not allow for the smallest bit of confusion . The steinbrenner of today would have a new stadium being built. PLease lets not put down a man who has had the only thing New yorkers have had to proud be of for a while.
I am a huge Yankee fan and would love no other owner than Steinbrenner....in baseball. What he does for the Yankees will not work in the NFL. He doesn't have an unlimited payroll as he does with the Yankees and he would have only a small revenue advantage with the Jets. There is no team owned cable network to pour an extra hundred mill into the coffers. The fact of the matter is he built the last Yankee dynasty (1996-2000) by staying pat. He for once held onto his young players instead of trading them for over priced, underwhelming talent. In football, you have to give the team time to grow together and add only pieces here and there. The Patriots did add a bunch of mid level free gaents when they started the run, but since then it has been the main stays plus a few pieces. The Colts starting 22 players have never played for another team other than the Colts. That's how you buld a team. It starts with drafting players who better fit what you are doing than the ones you are letting go.
The sad thing is that that dynasty was only built because Stick Micheals, Brian Cashman, Bob Watson, and whoever else built up one of the more productive farm systems in baseball. Steinbrenner was suspended from baseball at that time I think.
Yes, George was suspended in the early 90's for trying to dig up dirt on Dave Winfield. During his time away, they drafted the core of the dynasty...Jeter, Bernie, Posada, Rivera and Brien Taylor (j/k)
If Woody were Steinbrenner, he'd be aimlessly walking around his house in his pajamas talking to the furniture and collecting a herd of two dozen or so cats. I'll leave it to someone else to decide whether or not that equates to progress.
He would be more like a Snyder/Al Davis, which is the owner that is too stupid to try to buy a championship and fail miserably.
This is why the Jet/Yankee fan thing doesn't work. Yankee fans just don't have clue about the NFL. Don't you think that the Yankees having a payroll twice as big as any other team in MLB may have helped just a little? Don't you realize that the foundation for the Yankee dynasty was formed when Steinbrenner was suspended and couldn't muck things up by trading future HOFers in the farm system for Ken Phelps types. When will people realize that owners have as much influence on winning and losing as the locker room attendant.
I hear you!~ I was just going along with the thread title "If Woody were Steinbrenner " I cant let reality get in the way of my imagination!
