Ah you are finally begin to see what I have been saying since Shotty was forced on RR that all RR is a shill for Woody to sell PSLs :sad;
Did you ever ask yourself why other teams have repeated success year after year & we have been failures since 01/13/69? :sad:
I don't think there's any question that the Jets have tried much harder and more effectively to win the off-season the last 4 years than the season itself. Rex is the perfect pitch man for that effort since he truly believes he has the best team each year and would be saying that if he were the Cleveland Browns head coach and not the Jets. This year that's all going to break down if the Jets don't thread the needle perfectly. If they go get Peyton Manning somehow, and I think he won't come here but you never know, then Rex goes into full bluster mode and we all hold our breath and wait to see whether the off-season pitchman era finally wins on the field or whether it's over for good and the new regime comes in. If they stay the course with Sanchez then they likely don't compete heavily in the off-season championship competition and we get to see them do a really hard job for the first time. They're going to have to get a new coordinator and integrate him. They're going to have to replace probably a couple of pieces on the offensive line. They're going to have to fix a defense that is fundamentally unsound although it puts up good numbers still. They're going to have to deal with the evil child issues in the locker room. This is going to require using their draft picks to acquire a bunch of successful players for the first time since 2006. It's going to require the Jets making logical, well-reasoned free agent acquisitions instead of trying to cannonball in for the big splash. It's going to require Rex getting heavily involved on the offensive side of the ball as he picks the new OC and then makes it crystal clear that they are on the same page. It's going to require Rex taking a jaundiced look at the players on the defensive side of the field and replacing the people who just aren't good enough. It's going to require Mike Tannenbaum doing many things the exact opposite of how he's accustomed to doing them. It's going to require Woody Johnson putting his need for PSL sales on hold as the Jets do some very unsexy things to prepare for better things ahead. My gut tells me that Tanny will want to make one big more run at the pool and a huge splash and that Woody probably will let him do it. I'm also thinking we'll all regret it as the year breaks down and an era in Jets history goes with it.
100% agree. I blame Rex for losing the locker room as well as a lot of the crazy shit he says and does off the field. But Tannenbaum deserves a lot of blame for the mess the Jets are in. He has carelessly dealt away draft picks for years and he seems more about quick fixes than building a sustainable, winning team. The few draft picks we've had have been wasted on such gems as Vernon Gholston and Vladimir DuCasse. If the Jets have another disappointing year next season, I think Rex goes. If Rex goes then I think Tannenbaum should be shown the door as well.
This team doesn't know how to clean house anymore. They tried it after Parcells left, and it was a display of buffoonery, hiring an unqualified head coach, hiring a DC that didn't know how to run the system the HC wanted, hiring a field scout as a GM who couldn't get along with the HC and didn't seem to understand what kind of players the HC wanted... and then there was Paul Hackett. Then after 5 years, the HC walks to another job, they play musical chairs in the FO and make the cap expert a pitch man and GM, the old GM becomes the new GM's adviser, they fire most of the coaching staff and hire another unqualified rookie HC (a good friend of the new GM) and the son of the owner's friend as OC, make a figurehead DC who does nothing but coach position players while the HC runs the defense... Then, 3 years later they fire the HC and hire another rookie HC along with a new defensive coaching staff, but keep the rest of the operation intact. I would imagine if Rex and Tanny get the ax in ther next 3 years, Tanny will go be to being their cap expert, Scott Cohen (Jets asst GM) will become GM, some assistant will become Head Coach, and we'll be in for a pile of team propaganda the likes of which will make the PSL sales pitch we've gotten recently pale in comparison. This 'entire operation needs to be blown up' concept - that is fantasyland with the New York Jets.
Schotty has been pushed on everyone. Chargers fans are adamant that Marty Schottenheimer was fired because he was trying to force AJ Smith to promote his son to OC.
and in spite of all that, the locker room didn't implode. Therefore all of that was not worse than this year. Plus the only thing that was really an embarrassment to the team was the tripping of the dolphin. -Rex and his feet: Who cares? He loves his wife's feet. It's a part of the female anatomy. He likes it when his wife strokes his shaft with her feet, big deal. Was the fact that they made videos about it weird? Yeah, it was, but whatever. -Braylon DUI - Not that I excuse the behavior, but it happens a decent amount among sports teams and it usually never blows up into as big of a controversy as the media tried to make it last year. It was Braylon's stupid choice. Some people like to pin that on Rex's rowdy house, but the team provided a driver and Braylon didn't make use of it. -Harassment of that reporter - It was stupid for them to do, but she didn't even seem all that offended by it after she got her publicity. With the way she dresses, I'm sure this isn't the first time it happened to her. It looked bad on the team, but no one cared all that much. -Tripping of the Dolphin - This was the biggest and worst scandal of last year, but at least the Jets handled it somewhat well. Either way, that was the biggest embarrassment. -Hard Knocks back lash (Rex swearing, making guarantees, etc.) - Jets hard knocks was a big success and everyone was in love with Rex (well everyone except Tony Dungy)
I pretty much wiped my mind clean of this season. Some flash backs still occur. I can't remember exactly which game it was, but I remember writing here that someone should just toss a grenade in the offensive huddle. Someone quickly wrote back that the only problem with tossing a grenade in the offensive huddle is that Mangold or Greene would dive on top of it to save the rest of the team, which would pretty much defeat the purpose. I've been waiting for the killer Jet defense Rex delivered in year 1 and 2 of his command. I never thought our offensive would fall so far off to the way side. At one point in the season I was not certain the offense even practiced together. It really was unbearable to watch that unit operate most of the season. I honestly believe that next season Rex will have both the defense and running game breathing fire. I for one, Can't Wait!
The personnel is not there to make that defense happen again. The Jets great defense of 2009 was an illusion caused by a massive amount of blitzing. By early 2010 it was pretty clear that the blitzing wasn't working as well and the Jets backed off and played more coverage schemes including a lot more zone than 2009. To get the Jets anywhere in the vicinity of the 2009 defense they're going to need to find some real pressure up front and they probably cannot do it without finding a 12+ sack kind of guy at ROLB. It's been unbearable watching that unit operate for most of the last 6 years. 2006 looked really good because the Brooks/Vinny lead offense looked so bad in 2005. 2008 looked good until Favre quit on the season.
