By no means is that a recommendation by me, it was more thinking out loud. And all this team does is the antithesis of what it should lol
I don't know anything about potential coaches or what makes a good head coach. For one thing, though, get a coach who believes in creating schemes (offensive and defensive) to keep the other teams off-balance. It seems Saleh missed that part of the game. Also, get a coach who plays to win. Saleh also missed that part of the game.
I have never even mentioned Woody Johnson, much less approached predicting what he will do and certainly am not giving him credit for anything at all - your mind reading skills have failed you miserably so why not just stick to what's going on in your own mind rather than trying to decode what's going on in mine? You've already stated you are operating under the premise that the contract for Rodgers today is exactly what will be your scenario next year because you apparently believe contracts are etched in stone or cast in iron - so be it. That's your scenario and you're sticking to it - great for you. For you to claim that I am only "focusing on the here and now negatives" is the most cogent thing you've posted in the entire thread - because there is nothing else! If the entire Rodgers debacle had not been such a total failure we wouldn't be having this discussion at all. Feel free to dwell on all the positives you can dig up. If that includes Rodgers, have at it, we can all use a few laughs around here. For anyone here who hasn't learned a thing in the last year and a half, feel free to believe that Aaron Rodgers will have even an eyelash flutter to do with selecting the Jets next head coach. Why would the injury already sustained be compounded, even in Jetland?
I think that the Rex option becomes more real when you consider the list of highly sought after coaches who are smart enough to avoid the Jets.
I wish he would do it after the bye. If Rex came in and let's say we went 4-2 down the stretch. Would that not at least mean something? At least we would know that we don't have to blow this whole thing up.
From his perspective I mean. Woody had already set the precedent multiple times that he won't let coaches choose their coordinators and now he has basically given partial roster control to a quarterback. The legitimate 2024 head coaching candidates must be licking their chops at the opportunity to work under those conditions. Rex is the only legitimate option Woody has, although the level of legitimacy is pretty overblown at this point. So it will either be Rex or another rookie HC with translucent qualifications. I don't think any experienced HC worth a crap will answer the phone other than as a courtesy. The Jets are football cancer.
The only reason I'm for Rex, is he is the only one who wants the job; that says something, he really wants it. Bring Tanny back as a GM, and maybe they can work together/be on the same page. Otherwise, lol.... NOBODY WANTS TO COME HERE. As an aside, not that it would ever happen, but Belichick as a GM, and Vrabel as HC would go a long way in many a franchise....
I don’t really believe no one wants to come here. Not saying we have some sort of great situation but there should be a pool of guys we can pick from. We unfortunately would never attract a Jim Harbaugh type though.
Pretty sure Tanny went on record at some point during the drawn out Rodgers comp negotiations as stating he'd be doing absolutely anything it took to get that deal done, and even if it meant giving up the 1st round pick outright. Whoever ends up being the next GM of this team really needs to be the type that would see a clearly in decline 40yo QB, and everything in that package deal that was going to be force fed in with him....and walks away empty handed
The real question is Who is your Head Coach Choice in 2027-2028? The Jets are not going to attract any kind of coach with any ability this offseason. Nobody is taking this job. They're going to have to do what the Texans did a few years ago and hire a few people with literally no other options to come here for the sole purpose of coaching out the string for a team that is tanking and then get fired at the end of the season. The next coaching staff of this team is not going to make the playoffs. They're going to be here to guide this team through the darkest stretch in franchise history and then maybe their successor, or maybe their successor's successor might have a team with enough talent to sneak into the 7th playoff seed with a one-game-over .500 record.
