Actually, this is the third mediocre season. Rex inherited a 9 win team and magically brought them to 9 wins. Which is about what they still are.
actually not all of this fanbase is willing to just suck namath's cockhead. some people don't give a shit he won a superbowl 40 f'n years ago. if rex tells him to shut up thank god should have happened awhile ago.
too funny. i seriously doubt you know about a pimples worth of football compared to rex! i don't think he was or is head coach material yet. great defensive co but has a lot to learn as a head coach. needs to pay more attention to the offensive side of the ball and have more say into the game plan. yesterday shotty should have been benched and rex or someone else taken over the offensive play calling. they were in the game the whole 60 minutes, yet tried to be the colts when calling plays. all pass and no run. sanchez is not manning and that was a nitemare. rex has to step away from the players and coach them more and not be pals. holmes (regressed) problems this year have been of the dicipline kind, as the rest of the team has shown and thats on rex. he's a guy that's learning what it takes to be a head coach, lets see if he's learned anything come next season!
we had 10 million in cap space to work with and Rex, outside of pursuing Nnamdi, doesn't insist that we go get a safety or pass rusher. Everyone with damn eyes knew that this team needed an f'n safety. Nothing. Rex put his stock in Eric f'n Smith to be a Strong Safety. Absolutely ridiculous.
"Don't get me wrong, I love Rex and he has already done a lot for this team" Would you please explain exactly what he is done that is so great So far season 3 is ending for him & where is all that beef that he promised? So far unless I missed it there is no SBs victories & what else is there except being SB champs so he does no more then other coaches we have like Man, Herm, BP, Coslett, Walton Kotex & whom ever else you choose to throw into the pool other then Weeb :sad:
What?!? Rookie? Stop it! The guy has been an NFL coach since the 1990s. By your logic Mark Sanchez is just a rookie and has simply hit a rough patch in this extended two-year single season. 2009 doesn't count because Sanchez should still have been at USC, right?
probably the ones that can afford PSL's,,,,suck Namath's d*ck and would dissociate from this FO.....the ones that count champ
I wish he would demand his coaches to run the team the team according to his philosophy, during his press conference he stated he would like to have had 60 rushing attempts not 60 passing attempts. Im not saying that would work but if that is what you want and you are the HC, you demand it and make it happen, you don't let your OC do whatever he wants regardless of what your philospy, stand up and BE the HC.
It wasn't self-applied. The Jets have spent a lot of cash in the last three seasons to get where they are. The point of that was a Super Bowl that would sell PSL's. They're going to fire Rex in a season or two if the Jets don't either win a Super Bowl or turn into a consistent 11-5/12-4 team that is in the running every season. He doesn't have the leeway to go 9-7/10-6/4-12 just like Herm and Mangini didn't. And 4-12 is one of the likely numbers in the progression here real soon.
Yup, he inherited a 9 win team with an all time great QB and managed to get 9 wins with one of the worst rookie seasons a QB has ever produced. Then, with that same QB, he managed to pull out 11 wins the year after. Medicore seasons indeed. smh
Look at the Jets talent base in 2011 and ask yourself if it is better than what they had in 2008. For me it's not even a close comparison. In 2008 the Jets had a defensive line that included Kris Jenkins and Shaun Ellis. The linebackers included 24 year old David Harris, 29 year old Bryan Thomas and 28 year old Calvin Pace. The defensive backfield had Darrelle Revis on the ascension and a 26 year old Kerry Rhodes still looking like a stud. That was a potentially great defense at every level. In 2011 the Jets have Harris and a pair of cornerbacks and a bunch of guys who either haven't proven much or are beginning to age out. The defense is much worse than it was on paper in 2008. On offense the only positions where the Jets are better than they were in 2008 are WR and even those guys are either ancient, unproven or having bad off seasons. Ryan is not the one whose feet should be held to the fire for 2011. Tannenbaum is.
Any halfway competent coach would have won at least 9 games that year. Taking over for a grumpy coach with a good team is not a difficult task. I was disappointed that the Jets only went 9-7 in 2009. Look at the 49ers. Jim Harbaugh took over a team with a crappy QB and they are good. Enthusiastic/at least halfway competent head coach taking over for a bad one almost always leads to the team having more success the next year.
Oh don't get me wrong, I'm perfectly happen with the post season performance. Its just over the larger sample size, the results really aren't earth shatteringly successful. Seriously, take a look at the Patriots starting lineup and tell me who on that roster is head and shoulders better than their counterpart on the Jets? Okay, the first and most important is easy, but after that, who? Welker, Gronk, maybe Wilfork? Are those guys really accountable for about a dozen win differential in the past three seasons?
Agree completely. I feel like people in this thread are using what you just stated to bash Rex, when in fact it should be Tanny. I was Tanny's biggest supporter coming into this season but even I can't hide behind the fact he put together a lousy team this year, patchworking deficiencies at RT, safety, and backup TE. The saving grace we have is we are well under the cap with a pretty healthy 2012 FA list upcoming. Hopefully we can snag a couple great players (RT, OLB) and make a run next year. At least our core is locked up (Mangold, Harris, Brick, Cro, and prob Revis) for the long term.
First off you could never prove any of that, but thats a different story. The 49ers have Frank freakin' Gore at running back, a ton of talent at WR/TE (Crabtree, Davis), and a quarterback that isn't very good, but has always been ACCURATE. Have you seen the 49ers play this year? I have and their offense is all short passes and pounding the ball with Gore. Its Chad Pennington days part II. Rex could NEVER have done that in '09 with Sanchez, a 53% passer, and minimal talent at WR (who was our #2 that year before we got Braylon?). It's a terrible comparison, and to say a halfway competent coach would have won at least 9 games is a total joke. I look at Sanchez's rookie numbers and I'm simply amazed we even won more than 7 games.
The 2009 Jets were a 12-4, 13-3 team if had good QB play. They went 9-7 with rotten QB play. They should have been 10-6 or 11-5 but the coaching was not up to snuff in some games (at Miami, Jacksonville, Atlanta). The comparison was fine. How else are you going to explain why the 49ers are so much better this year?
