Of course you expect any played taken in the top ten to be very good. Expecting a rookie to be elite because he plays guard and was taken in the top ten seems silly. I could understand if you expected a top 10 guard to eventually be elite bit not as a rookie.
I I especially like your line that Rex is not even the great defensive coach. Buffalo without its 2 starting wideouts put up 37 on Rex? Cincy puts up 49? Things get so bad Rex signs a retread free safety after another team WORSE than the jets cuts him? I think Rex's defensive reputation is a little overrated and his coaching the 3 last three years speaks for itself. Nothing against Rex personally, I hope Rex DOES land on his feet elsewhere--The jets just REALLY need a new image, new approach, new blood, and especially NEW COACH. We don't need more of the old. It's (past) time.
Were 6-8 so at best .500 and did u happen to watch the Miami game? I support Rex but to say they played hard 4 Qtrs is ludicrous.
It's not Rex ... It's Godell. The concept of good defense has been taken out of football by this clown. When 5 teams score more than 30 points last weekend and still lose, there's something seriously wrong going on. This idiot has taken the most perfectly designed, perfectly balanced sport, and he's turning it into basketball ... The most tedious and poorly designed sport. Don't get me started.
Things have got to change for no other reason than to bring in a new breath of fresh air. People keep saying, give Rex time, or let the team rebuild. The team is rebuilding but part of the machinery is still old. Five years is as long a time as any coach should be given to maintain success.
This is where I am now. A new, fresh set of eyes and ideas are exactly what this team needs. Woody started the process with a new GM. Now he needs to complete the makeover with letting his new GM pick HIS new HC whomever that may be. Rex leaving will not be the end of the world. The players will lose a "player's coach" and that may be a good thing in the long run. Perhaps a coach that demands discipline and professionalism could get a few more miles out of this bunch. At the very least, we won't have to suffer thru another "buddy system" signing like Ed Reed was. Since Woody hired Idzik, then he needs to let Idzik do his job. If Woody doesn't have the confidence in Idzik to do that job, he should have hired someone else. Either way, time for Woody to retreat to his owner's box, watch the games, sign the paychecks and that's all. It's OK to like the HC, but the results on the field should trump that if it is indeed, about winning and not simply filling the stands and the back pages.
IMO, it doesn't really matter who the coaches are. It's a QB league. Period. Without a good to great QB, you will never excel as an organization in the long term.
Oh, so now we're blaming Goodell for the losing? OMG Get real. The system is what it is, and if you want to be successful, you have to have a HC who understands that system (the game as it is now), and is able to thrive in it. Rex obviously isn't. He may have been a great HC 30 years ago, but this isn't 1983.
