I just heard Mort confirm it, and then he stated that the Jets would look inside the organization prior to exploring other coaching options. Just what I heard....
Well I can't see why Cowher can't have a sit down with Tannenbaum, and they could discuss the offseason shopping list. I mean clearly Cowher has to believe that Tannenbaum is willing to go out on a limb, and go shopping. So I can't believe that he can't at least talk to Mike and work some compromises out....
It comes down to Cowher not wanting to come back to coaching unless the situation is perfect for him. And I guess for him that means having all his own people in place.
Thanks for the confirmation. If they are going to look "inside" my guess is Callahan will be the choice
Don't kid yourselves on how much Parcells may be playing in this. Johnson knows exactly what is going on with the sale of Miami, when it will happen, when Parcells will have a chance to leave. Right now he can play hardball with Cowher unless he thinks Cowher is interested in another job (which so far it is reported that he is not).
There isn't ONE guy within the organization that could deliver as the Jets next coach. This is bullshit.
FUCCCCKKKKK!!!!! why woody? why not just give tanny a new title and say "no problemo bill"? look inside def means callahan. does anyone remember how bad he sucked ass with oakland? cuz i do. granted al davis was involved but they were good when he got there and they havent come back since.
I heard it and to be fair Clayton said he didn't think the Jets would let him bring his own personell guy in, he never said Woody refused.
Sure, he might put a guy in place as GM to handle contracts and things like that, but I don't believe that Cowher wouldn't have the final say on everything. And that might not necessarily be a bad thing.
Clayton is about as reliable as a prostitute showing up in church. The media knows about as much as we do at this point.....and Cowher hasn't said "no" yet. So everybody needs to relax.
He must have tempered down is report for when I heard him to when you heard him because when I heard it he said there was a 100% chance that BC WAS NOT coming to the NYJs due to the GM issue
He said 100% no and when pushed, said it again. Clayton is a Jet hater so it doesn't surprise me he said that. Who has faith that the Jets will get this right this time?
What the Jets need is a Director of Football Operations and a Head Coach, both of whom report directly to Woody Johnson. For the Jets to succeed they're going to need to have an owner who is directly involved in the running of the franchise on a day to day basis. He doesn't need to be as involved as Dan Rooney but he does need to be listening to both the DoFA and the coach and to be getting unvarnished opinions from them as to where the team is going and why. The normal heirarchical system with a GM reporting to the owner and a coach reporting to the GM just doesn't work because it diminishes accountability and prevents the coach, the guy closest to the action on the field, from speaking his mind without worries about upsetting his boss as he does so. The teams that have been the most successful over a long span of time in the NFL have been teams that went with very simple management systems that encouraged accountability from all involved. The Dallas Cowboys went with a combo team President/General Manager in Tex Schramm who functioned in almost all ways as the team's owner, even voting their votes at NFL meetings, a role normally reserved for owners. He then hired Tom Landry and the Cowboys flourished for 25 years. The Pittsburgh Steelers have had a triad with Dan Rooney as President and the Director of Football Operations and Head Coach both reporting directly to him for close to 40 years now and the Steelers have flourished. The Oakland Raiders had an owner who functioned as GM in Al Davis and directly hired the head coach and until Al went over the hill they flourished. The Miami Dolphins had no GM at all for decades as Don Shula filled both roles and reported directly to Joe Robbie who had the last word on all matters related to money. If you want to be good for a long time you need to find something that gets the owner directly involved with the individuals who assemble the talent and then coach it, and both of those guys need to be able to speak their mind directly to the owner without breaking the chain of command. Franchises can be successful using the traditional model, however they can't be "good almost every year" successful for more than a decade or so. For that you need much better hands on accountability where the buck stops at the owner's desk on a week by week and year by year basis. What the Jets need to do now is to install a system where Woody Johnson is sitting at the table at every significant organizational meeting, in-season and out. He has clearly established that failure is not an option. Now he needs to get directly involved in the process of creating success. Football is a fairly closed system, but it's not hard to get up to speed to the point that you know when things are going wrong as they go wrong, and likely why they are starting to sour. That's what the great franchises have had, an owner performing the sniff test on a regular basis.
wasn't Clayton one of the media clowns that said Favre was 100% NOT gonna be traded to New York? how does this dunce have a job?
I think we heard the same interview but he never said that Woody said 100% no to Cowher running the personnel decisions.
That's simply not true. You got the report wrong, and this was Clayton's own personal opinion on the matter. Thanks for giving everyone here a case of the fits.
Clayton also said Favre would rather retire than go to the Jets and there was no way he was going to the jets. This was a day before we got him.
