Please!!! Make it stop. I've seen a little bit of it here - but on social media (I know, I know) and even local radio, it's reaching a crescendo. Jets X Factor published something today basically saying "no way" about Rex and this little snippet below is essentially EXACTLY what I've been trying, unsuccessfully, to put into words. Everyone gives the "he reached two championship games" argument - SO WHAT!!!!! He took over a ready made team and then helped run it into the ground. And let's not pretend that the Jets were constantly prepared and came up big all the time for him - the long 3rd down conversions, the flat games in bad situations, terrible starts, the pathetic offense - it was Jets 1.0 of what we've seen the past few years. Was it better? Sure. But that's like saying as you get older, you're dating a 3 - and you long for the days when you could secure a 10. A 5 looks so much better than the 3 - but it's still a 5!!!!!!!!!! Here you go: <<<<<<Remember, Rex Ryan was placed in the perfect situation. After Eric Mangini and Mike Tannenbaum built the program correctly—starting with the boring selections of D’Brickashaw Ferguson and Nick Mangold in 2006—the Jets were on the cusp of something great in 2008. Brett Favre had Mangini’s 2008 squad at 8-3, after a dominant victory in Tennessee. Courtesy of Favre’s injuries and other miserable happenings, Jets fans watched Chad Pennington’s Miami Dolphins stun their team at home in the finale. To the shock of most, Woody fired Mangini and hired Rex, who took control of the most talented team in the league (sans the quarterback position). To be placed in such an enviable position, with an all-star cast of coaches by his side (see Bill Callahan, Mike Westhoff, Bob Sutton, Anthony Lynn, Dennis Thurman, etc.), the franchise’s best offensive line, and arguably the best cover-cornerback in league history (see Darrelle Revis), only to have it all fall apart on your watch, is to fully eliminate yourself from any future consideration.>>>>> Sent from my SM-X820 using Tapatalk
I said it tongue in cheek the other day but yeah Rex wouldn’t be the right decision. His 2013 season is pretty much the exact reason. High highs and low lows. Every game is a rollercoaster with Rex. The real telling thing for what the future of this franchise holds is whether the Jets decide to keep Douglas rather than cleaning all of the stink out of the building. You don’t give a GM like Douglas who has had a mountain of resources (even though he himself created a lot of the draft pick opportunities) the opportunity to pick another coach. You also need in an ideal world to have the GM and coach on the same page and maybe they would have worked together before.
i havent aheard a single scream , except the OP i AINT stumping for Rex, but I'd take him in a heartbeat. he at least gives a fuck about the team. that said, they go elsewhere? i wont be acting jilted
Is there even any noise from the press about Douglas being on the hot seat? Headlines and bottom lines are what matters to Woody.
That game against the Bills in Detroit should disqualify him from ever being a head coach again. The guy had a week of practice against a team that "practiced" on their iPads in their snowed-in homes all week and had a brief walkthrough in the ballroom of a Detroit hotel and got blown out. Rex did great with Mangini's team. Once he got his own players in here? He was terrible.
The scary thing is, with all these people that I see here and other places online calling for Rex, I'm afraid Woody might actually go and rehire him.
Not even sure how great he did. Didn’t we sneak into the playoffs after Cincy lost ? We did catch a little fire in the playoffs , but exited at the must be this tall to ride sign.
All I remember is after an embarrassing loss against a terrible Falcons team, Rex at the press conference thought his Jets were eliminated from the playoffs. They weren't. Somehow they snuck in, went on a run and Rex for at least a few years became immortal. There was also the Indy thing we're they sat all there starters last week on the season were Jets needed the win to get in. Jets always needed help to get in his first 2 years. But to Rex's credit, his teams played well in the playoffs.
We're at the lowest point since Rex was here and people are reaching for anything to feel good about both themselves and the team.
The Colts rested their starters against the Jets in week 16 before the playoffs in 2009 and the Jets then beat the Bengals and eventually lost to the Colts in the playoffs. The Jets might have missed the playoffs if the Colts didn't rest.
I think it's a perfect take. Pun fully intended. Sanchez wasn't there when he was hired, the whole Brett Favre thing blew up, and then they drafted Sanchez.
Trust me, the OP (me) wouldn't have made the post if there weren't dozens upon hundreds of people screaming for this.
We snuck into the playoffs after Indy had us beat and then sat everybody in the second half to prepare for the playoffs. Then somebody lost, I forget who, the last weekend of the season giving the Jets anopportunity to win and in against Cincinnati.
Truth, and although I understand it because we all suffer from PTSD with this team, there is a horrendous case of "better than what we have" even if that being better doesn't mean it's good.
I feel like Douglas has been decent in some ways, poor in others, but it's been two years since he made any real decisions that weren't directly affected by what Woody Johnson forced him to do. The whole charade with killing all the leverage by chasing after Aaron Rodgers set Douglas on a course that he had no choice but to follow. It was all in at that point, and any pretense of trying to stay young and continuing to build through youth and the draft was gone. Things were already starting to fall apart and he missed badly on the quarterback, but when you're forced down a path and everybody knows it, there's not much for you to do but hope it works out. That said, the term "clean house" comes to mind, they need to let everybody go, down to the foundation of the house. And then we have to sit on pins and needles and pray to whatever we believe in that Woody Johnson accidentally hires the right guy to run things, because the only way we're ever getting anywhere with him there is through sheer luck.
