How anyone can continue to defend Mangini at this point is beyond me. This team is being treated like a job, not like something that can be special... not like an NFL football team.
i dont get the anger at this. ive read many times that coaches often spend the friday of a week game-planning for the following week's opponent. maybe mangini should have been more clear about that, but this is nothing unusual. as for getting xmas off, i'm jewish so i say make them come in!!! (just kidding, i see no issues with making them come in tuesday and getting xmas off to be with the family)...
If this is true, that means that the Jets were looking past the Seahawks, possibly even taking the game for granted as a "gimme." And if true, this goes completely against everything that Mangini preaches about "one game at a time and that's our focus," etc. All I can say is, WOW. I'd like some substantiation on this, but if it's so, this is un-freakin'-believable!
Aww hell. The fat goober has one more game left to the season and we've already played the dawlpfinz once. I would hope that, at this point, he has done enough teaching and coaching that he could afford to give the team a mid-week Christmas day off.
My father is a doctor, he has worked Christmas before. You have to do what needs to be done, you think they'll shut down hospitals because it's Christmas? Oh sorry Mr. Patient, all the doctors have the day off because they have to spend time with their families, why did you get a life threatening illness on this of all days? Get over yourself. If you need to work to get something done, especially when you could have done it earlier and didn't, then you should be working through Christmas. If the Jets had gone 3-1 in the last 4 games, then they'd be right in just taking the week off. But these losers, and you loser fans, kept giving them passes for not showing up the last month. An entire month! Now you're finding excuses to give them another week off. They were going to miss the playoffs anyway, but what a joke of a franchise perfect for its joke of a fanbase.
While I'm not disputing that some teams may start preliminary game-planning, etc., for a game a Sunday ahead, THIS team, at THIS time, had no business focusing on anything except preparation for the Seahawks. No wonder Mangini looked shocked and in a state of disbelief after the game Sunday. He never thought the Hawks would give us a problem and he thought sneaking in a little prep for the Dolphins was a smart thing to do. Boy, did we get screwed.
You're mising the point here. The gist of this thread is not about working on Christmas, it's about looking past the Seahawks game. For Christ's sake... you're 9-5 and in control of your own destiny as long as you beat two teams... the Seahawks, and then the Dolphins. We didn't get it done. What a fucking mess.
The Giants are off on Christmas, but then again, they play a meaningless game on Sunday. That's a no brainer.
They aren't losing any practice time though, they just moved the off day from Tuesday to Thursday. Same amount of preperation to lose.
Actually Mangini 4M home has a indoor BBQ so he has invited the team over for a BBQ with green koolaid as the drink of choice
I'm not saying the Jets shouldn't have Thursday off, but I am EXTREMELY pissed if they looked past the Seahawks game and worked on Dolphins crap on Friday before the Seahawks game. For God's sake, we made their O-line look like fucking Pro Bowlers and Seneca What's-His-Name look like a fucking Hall of Famer. Just too fucking much, man. I am pissed beyond belief.
He should be barbequeing crow and stink up the neighborhood but good. What a freakin' joke this whole season is turning into. Next it'll be "Chad Pennington Returns To The Meadowlands In Huge Revenge Game... Dolphins Win 27-9." Just unbelievable.
Everything is magnified when you win and when you lose. Nobody was complaining when we went to Foxboro on two days practice and beat the Pats after beating the Rams on Sunday. The Jets came out Sunday and put a 7-minute drive together, they looked prepared to me. We can question Mangini's in-game defisions all week, and rightly so, but to go crazy over something like this when none of us work there or are in the room is probably a waste of energy.
Also, people act like we're the only team that does preliminary gameplanning for the next week's games. A lot of teams do this. But people just like to bitch, so here's one more thing to complain about.
That's what people seem to be missing here. I doubt many people would object to the players getting off for Christmas. The problem here is that he was simply looking past a team. Now to begin with, looking past any team is bad for business, but to look past one with nothing to lose, in their house, in their coach's last game there ever, when you need to win, is suicide. F*** Mangini. What a total asswipe. If we get knocked out Sunday, I hope Woody comes down during his post-game press conference and fires him live on tv.
I'm still seething over some of his game-time decisions, don't mind me. The one that keeps coming back to haunt me is the very first one at the end of the opening drive. We drive the ball really well and we're 4th and 1 (actually it was half a yard) on the Seahawks 2 YL. You kick a field goal there, especially as the weather is deteriorating rapidly and your RB has been averaging over 5 YPC? And with the weather going south, this might be your only opportunity all day to get 7, so you kick a freakin' field goal? I know "the textbook" says you take the points, but that's the problem with Mangini lately... no thinking outside the box. For God's sake! What's the worst that happens if you miss that FG? The Hawks wind up with the ball in shitty field position and you rely on your DEF to hold them deep in their own territory. With everything on the line, this should have been a balls-to-the-wall game, not a freakin' conservative, go-by-the-book game plan. I am VERY disappointed. That opne call set the tone for the entire debacle... the entire game, because it lacked aggressive confidence and sucked the air right out of all the players.
