The Gods are listening! Forty nine years to the day later, the Jets have given me another birthday present! The first was November 19, 1975 when they fired Charley Winner, who wasn't. Now they have finally moved on from the Douglas depression; happy days are here again!
This coupled with the fact that they should have immediately known the Aaron Rodger experiment failed right then and there. Followed by a decision to FIND a reasonable starting QB.
I'm going to say ownership. The minute the ink dried on the bid W. Johnson submitted to the NFL was the moment this sad sack franchise was effectively "done" in my lifetime.
Whoo that's a tough one. I hate to do this but I have to. We had the worst kicker in the NFL this season his misses forever changed the course of this season and now offseason & future of the franchise. Had he made the game winning kick at the end of the Denver game I don't believe that coach Saleh gets fired after the loss to the Vikings. Had he made his kicks in the second New England game this 2024 season just looks completely different right now. I have to believe the franchise would still be whole and even though the record would be far from what we expected it to be before the season started they'd be in the thick of the AFC playoff picture right now with a bunch of meaningful games to look forward to.
You know, I feel you there. He cost us 3 games and, you're right, 3 wins and the team is in the thick of things. Our defense probably doesn't collapse and... So many variables. It is refreshing to see someone other than the usual suspects getting called out.
Joe Douglas torpedoing the defense by letting Huff walk, trading JFM and not resigning Quinton Jefferson. Also bringing back Zurlein instead of signing Siebert was a massive blunder that resulted in numerous losses.
Coaching. There should be enough talent to be a .500 team at least. - No discipline, way too many penalties and mental errors - Come out flat every game, last game it took most of the first half just to get a first down. - Awful coming off bye weeks - No creativity in play calling, every first down is a struggle with this dink and dunk bs - Absolute garbage in goal to go situations - Can't stop the run - Can't tackle - Can't even call plays in time
Its being reported by the athletic that Woody actually wouldn't let JD bring Huff back. Just saying..
That's asinine if true. That's asinine if true. Somehow, Woody is even worse than I thought. The scariest part of that is it shows he thinks he knows better than the GM and his football people about personnel decisions. He has no idea he has no idea what he's doing with that and also what impact that would have on the GM and coach. Who the hell would want to work for him?
Its a scary look. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5933929/2024/11/19/joe-douglas-new-york-jets-gm-fired/
season unfolded cause Woody sucks donkey balls end of story, go look at woody's instagram, he has 1000's of fans begging him to sell the team, he gotta be the most hated owner in sports.
Season unfolded in the off-season when the Jets let Saleh come back while guys like Carrol and Vrabel wanted to coach but no one hired them. Saleh had no right to coach this team after the prior 3 years. The whole staff should have been changed.
You can say ownership but it comes down to culture. Yeah the owner impacts that a lot. But we haven't had someone with a winning cultural plan come in yet. Success begins in our heads first.
It's all of the above. For the season, as I've often said for years... it's the coaching, with help from how the Media always covers the Jets. There's very little serious critical reporting done anymore. Always following the drama, rather than focusing on football. Every season tooting the "talent," while ignoring actual team performance, & never holding the CS accountable. Back to the blame... JD, not for any personnel decisions, as all GMs hit & miss, but for hiring Saleh (his first & worst decision), basically stepping aside letting Saleh run a totally undisciplined bunch of players (the Team), just being too meek with Saleh, & especially Woody. I would've respected him more, had he resigned, as Woody was ruining the team. I never felt that JD was fully 'in' on the AR trade. Which leads me to the buffoon-in-chief. BB saw right through him, & chose the self-made zillionaire to work for. The Jets organization is a joke. Those around the league just shake their heads. It's a reflection of the Johnson family culture that inherited their wealth, live in a bubble, & imagine that wealth makes them smart. -SMH- .
I agree, with one caveat... the winning cultural plan can only come about without Johnson intervention. Unless they give control of football operations to actual football people, it's the Johnson family culture that rules. And this is what you get. The only way this thing changes, is to sell the team (doubtful), or for the Johnson's to step away & just pocket the money, as they do the Country Club circuit. .
To me, this mess started in 2020 when Joe Douglas put together that awful team in Sam Darnolds 3rd year he made it really worse by drafting Zach Wilson it’s not Woody, the Fords still own the Lions, McNair still owns the Texans (who wanted Bryce Young btw). This comes down to hitting and missing on the QB and Joe Douglas had 3 chances and missed on all 3
