We were in the game and ready to play. Rex deserves a lot of credit for that. His players are still fighting for him. We keep making the same mistakes. That blown coverage on the first series? TOs? A TD from 3rd and goal from the 20? The onside kick? This is SOJ football and it's time to move on when the season ends.
One game they played well where we still lost. How does that constitute him not at least boiling on the hot seat?
Rex is toast. Nick Cage has some Seattle coach waiting in the wings. This D never makes a play when it needs to make a play. Never ever.
He should be on the hot seat--as Jetaho said above the team keeps making a lot of the same little mistakes--but not because of this game. They actually played alright tonight, showing that Rex has the ability to get a lot out of a team with little talent.
Unfortunately, I think the Jets will wait at least until the offseason to fire Rex, and might not fire him at all. I think this is a mistake. Firing him now and giving the reigns to some hapless interim coach would probably guarantee us a top 5 pick, maybe even a top 3. And then of course higher picks in every other round as well. That is exactly what we need right now, and would significantly increase our chances of filling the team with more young talent. And with a new coaching staff by the time we draft, we might even improve our drafting record.
Disagree...onside kicks are recovered by the kicking team at a 19.7% rate...that's less than 1 in 5. With the sieve our defense has been in such situations you actually wanted to give NE a short field? One of the greatest QB's of all time a short field? Not me...I pin their asses deep and PRAY my defense does their flippin' JOB! On this night...they DID their JOB...for a change...but because of the huge yardage loss due to a short kick our inept freaking no time outs left offense had to do something they were not equipped to do. The BEST they could do, with the time allotted and no time outs, was to get us to Folks career long best spot and then PRAY... No, on this day, in this situation, with this team and that offense you kick off as far as you can...
I guess after the season ends. But seriously, if everyone on here wants the Jets to be good then we should all be looking for a change. The current regime isn't getting it done. Bottom line.
If we kick off and they get a first down, people here would be criticizing Rex for not going onside. I guarantee it. And if we recovered it, nobody would claim it was a bad idea. We went for it on fourth down recently in a game and converted ( think it was packers) and nobody complained.
Rex gets 9 more games. I think he can go 5-4 in that stretch to get his 2nd (6-10) record in 3 years. Then he gets his pink slip.
This is NOT the game to start a Rex bash thread (there are plenty of valid reasons though)....... I agree, I thought the onsides was a bad call (said it to my dad at the time ) but didn't have that much effect to the outcome. The timeouts were a bigger issue, how much of that was player F-up issue? Yes it all falls on the head coach, but like last week, he had a game plan that kept them competitive against a superior team.......
Rex has actually done a good job overall of coaching this team up and staying competitive against all these really good teams we've faced week in and week out. Our schedule was brutal but we were in every game except for one. Our roster wasn't that great to start the season, injuries mounted up, which made a porous roster look much better than the putrid roster we have now. Primarily with the defense on the back end. So for Rex to give us a chance to win every single one of those games, is impressive to me. After the second half of the schedule, I have a feeling that will be brought to light even more at the end of the year, I truly hope he stays as coach. He is a great coach, if he gets fired, somebody else will hire him as HC. We will regret firing him. I am excited that we have a legit weapon on offense now, I just hope it plays out nicely for us.
If we get Harbaugh, we can keep on complaining about how the media doesn't like him and we never have timeouts near the end of the game.
Cool, but we are still 1-6. Rex himself has called the season a "big failure" so far. And as for our brutal schedule, Miami won in Chicago and Buffalo won in Detroit. We lost to both of those teams at home, in back to back games in which we shot ourselves in the foot with killer, game-changing mistakes. No excuses.
