Who hasn't broken up with a girl and then realized days later that you made a mistake? The grass wasn't greener... It's not too late to apologize. I'm just saying Vince Lombardi couldn't have won with a QB throwin picks like Farve did the last 5 games. I think Mangini is a winner.
Oh no, one coach didn't want to come here. This means every other coaching candidate is inferior to Mangini. Love the logic of some of the people here.
Man...I'm glad u started this thread.... Jets' really need to bring back Mangini. He's just needed & he knows more football than anyone in the Jets organization ....as of the people they have here today. Tanny knows...shitt. He's strictly a salary-cap...money man & very good at it. And when he's re-hired...Hire Shannahan as OC & demote Shotty or fire him.
That's not the issue (Cowher). The point is that I think the decision to fire him was very rash. He went from a great coach to a terrible coach in 5 weeks? The only thing that changed was Favre's play. Mangini is clearly just being made the scapegoat.
This thread pissed me off for a while, but then I realized it's just Eric Mangini posting under the name DennisByrd.
I don't know how much of reports of Woody's meddling is true, but if half of it is, I am apt to agree with you.
He was never a great coach. Besides the Titans win, the Jets 8-3 start was full of inconsistencies and struggles. Remember, they struggled against KC and Cincy, and nearly blew it vs NE. Mangini repeatedly made boneheaded decisions even during their hot start. The man never developed a feel for the game. He played it by the book, and also never showed any emotion out there. His players came out unprepared and flat way to often. Anyone who claims firing Mangini is a mistake because his replacement may be inexperienced is using faulty logic. Mangini was average at best, so if we end up with a rookie who is above average, that is an upgrade.
Well played, sir. And Kevin James is a Jet fan, too. In all seriousness, Favre sucked, but the decisions made in the Seattle game should have put Mangini's job in jeopardy alone. Then, when you factor in the path the season took and the defensive playcalling, I think it was the only move.
I didn't get the memo that winning in the nfl is easy. The guy had winning seasons 2 out of 3 years! As a Jets coach that should put him in our freakin ring of honor.
'Winning seasons'? 9-7 is such an achievement? 16 teams finished over .500, 5 finished 8-8, a record the Jets easily could have had it not been for Jauron's giveaway Week 15. You also fail to mention they started off 8-3, so the 9-7 has to be looked at in context. A collapse of that kind of proportion is terrible. It should not have been surprising, though, since Mangini barely had them playing good football even during their nice start. He simply wasn't a good coach for the Jets. I liked the job he did in 2006, when he was innovative and aggressive, but he hasn't been the same guy since. He did a bad job this year and so now he's out of a job.
By the way, Herm Edwards had 3 'winning' seasons. Do you want him back? He was more successful than Mangini!
For about 15 minutes. He'll be hired by the Browns and turn their franchise around. Mangini deserved 1 more year.
Herm phoned in his final season and had one foot out the door to KC. Aside from that he was a pretty good coach.
Mangini has never done ANYTHING in his career that has shown he'd be capable of having consistent success as an NFL Head Coach. The Pats D sucked the one year he ran it. He was pretty exciting in 2006, but lost it completely in 07 and 08. We have no reason to regret losing this guy. He's simply ordinary.
There franchise doesn't need turning around, keep them healthy and put a lot of glue on Braylon Edwards hands and you have a good team. Mangini deserved to go, and he is gone, time to move on.
Or maybe he was just an average coach that had a talented team, and performed to expectations with them. Mangini and Herm both had pretty good teams and coached them to 9-7/10-6 records. Nothing to write home about. Mangini overachieved with the 2006 team, that's it. That had a lot to do with the soft schedule and Chad's strong play. And to think he made Chad compete with PATRICK RAMSEY for the starting QB job.
