You notice that Herm got rid of Trent Green in a hurry. He combined Vinny's (age) and Chad's (injuries) faults to a T and Herm had the bus revved up as soon as the season ended, even though he didn't get rid of him till the spring. Proves that Herm learns from our losses.
Yessir, he can probably get a couple more years blaming the KC QB Controversy to keep himself safe now.
Absolutely on Tannenbaum. It's too early to give up on him yet. One more season before we can judge his results. Mangini I think gets a bye this year. There's not enough talent on the Jets to win more than 6 to 8 games tops so his job is to keep the team motivated and playing and to continue the transition to a 3-4. He's toast if Tannenbaum doesn't get him better players for that 3-4 though. No coach can survive poor talent acquisition for long.
In the five years Herm had the Jets in the playoff three of them. Slack..? I think he deserved slack after leading the team to the playoffs three times in five years. If you look back at the history of the New York Jets, perennial playoff team is not how I would describe this franchise.
Lol you guys are too funny. It's week one against probably the best Patriots team in years who almost no one doubts is Superbowl bound already and who I'm sure BB was whipping into a frenzy for this game. Give it a few weeks before you declare the season a bust...
There are a lot of coaches in NFL history who have kind of hovered around the making the playoffs/not making the playoffs threshold over a period of years. We had one of our own about 20 years ago in Spanky Walton. Herm and Spanky were the same thing: a coach that could take 10-6 talent and go 10-6 with it. BTW in 2004 you could argue the Jets had 12-4 talent for a season but nobody ever thought they were verging on that. It would have taken a Belichik or Parcells or Billick or Fisher to get over that hump and we had a guy who needed a clock coach on our sidelines.
