What Buddy told his son is how everyone who calls themselves a Jets fan feels. Since Weeb, Buddy and Michaels coached the Jets the team has been screwed up one season at a time for 40 plus years. The SOJ is a one year debacle 40 times over. Its ground hog day we just have to live it over and over until we finally get it right. The 68 SB team is remembered for the Joe but the fact is that team had a D that was intense, aggressive, came at you full speed and was extremely physical and attacked. That team ran the ball and that team had a leader on the field that attacked and was aggressive and they had a coaching staff that coached the team to be aggressive and attack in a coordinated manner that made them a great team. Before there was a SOJ there was a team that came out of humble beginnings and became the biggest thing in sports. After watching Rex I think we have our man? This guy loves the Jets. You can tell his father loved the Jets. We love the Jets. There are a handful of us on this board that knows what a great Jets team looked like. Rex Ryan grew up with it. You can tell Rex loves the game and why not, his first impressions as a young 6 year old was probably on the sidelines watching Namath throw it to Maynard, Snell run the ball behind Hill, Biggs and Philbin killing the other teams QB. The Jets were a little kids candy store just like it was mine and a few others on the board. He looks at the Jets and he doesn’t see the SOJ, he sees a SB team. It’s about time we hired a HC that sees the same thing I do, the same thing that we do when we look at the Green and White. I don’t know how this is going to work out but if you're a Jets fan you can't help but feel good about Rex Ryan coaching this team. Likeable and Learnable Full Speed Aggressive Intensity The Jets are coming We will be known as the most physical team in the NFL We are not going to read and react we are going to attack “This is my team don’t screw it up”
I have a feeling things are not going to be as good as advertised. Decent, but not off the wall like people are saying here.
They will most certainly be better then they were under Mangini and that is a start that we will all be happy with.
Probably not. The schedule is 5 times harder than this year but while we would have probably gone 3-13 under Mangini we will at least go 8-8 under Ryan.
Strength of Schedule is bull. Teams change alot from year to year. What once was strong can be shit the next year.
Bull? Well, then I'll put it this way. Mangini was here 3 years. In the 1st and 3rd he had the bull shit easiest schedule in the NFL and had a winning record. In the 2nd year he had the bullshit hardest schedule in the NFL and went 4-12. Take from that anything you want but I thing he would have gone 3-13 or 4-12 again next year. He did nothing this year to prove otherwise.
In year two he had the weakest team of his tenure. If you are basing Jets chances on who is on their schedule, then you are saying the team is just average.
The team has been just average under Mangini, wouldn't you say? How do you lose to Oakland, SF, Denver and Seattle if you are good?
Wht Not ? Rex says he wants aggression , good ! Because when we played like powder-puffs thats when our season went down the toilet
I think the coaching was terrible. I think the team had the players to be much better than they were this year. I think that is why Mangini was fired and I think Ryan will get as much out of them next year as they have. Whatever that turns out to be we will see. Hard to make any predictions without knowing who the QB and OC are going to be.
What makes you feel the way you do? Personally, I feel this is the guy the Jets have been waiting for based on the things he is saying. Yes, talk is cheap... but the personal problem I've had with the Jets is a lack of aggression, a lack of a killer instinct. Rex Ryan, the defensive coordinator, has been successful his entire career embodying the very things I personally want out of a coach. Now he is the Jets coach and talking very plainly about what he expects out of this team, and that is exactly what I feel this team needs. Everything Winston listed above is a winning formula. Mangini was the anti-winning formula... so personally, even if things don't get tremendously better this upcoming season, I have faith that in the next few years the Jets will be a bonafide Super Bowl contender.
kerry Rhodes :wink: ........Rex hints that Vernon might be to the Jets what Suggs is to the Ravens.....food for thought
I know Rex without even stepping onto the field , has upped the anti in the AFC east. I would love to be a fly on the wall in some of the rival boardrooms :wink:
He inherited a great D already from Marvin Lewis, who was the one who built that D. That is for starters. Look, I like his schemes, but I am leery of him having no head coaching experience and putting all these expectations out there. After being excited about other coaches in the past, I will temper my excitement until I see results. Talk is cheap.
Can't fault you for that but if we had hired Cowher, Shanahan, Billick, or either of the other 2 past SB winners we wouldn't have any more of a guaranty then we do now. Probably less as no sb winner has ever done it in two different cities.
Mangini lost the team down the stretch against a powder puff schedule. This team at the end of the year was among the worst teams in the NFL based on performance. You might say after Denver expossed our scheme the team was a bottom feeder among the worst teams in the NFL if not the worst in the month of December when it counts. Ryan may well bust but this team is in need of more good players and a completely different mind set. Talk is cheap but the mind set is the difference between night and day, rain and drought, cold and hot. I'm a Jets fan, I'm optimistic, there's a vision I can get behind. It's not realized but you can at least look to the horizon and see the sun peeking up.
