Not even mediocre. He was terrible in Washington. Rex and Ron Rivera. Just, wow. Might as well call Kotite and see what he's been up to the past 30 years or so.
Rivera has made the playoffs 5 of 13 years… that’s quite an improvement over what we’ve been dealing with. He’d also hold people accountable. He’d be a ok hire… not great but ok Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Yeah I dont hate Rivera like some here seem to do. He is an OK coach. I think he's unlikely to get serious consideration though
I just don't understand WHO is interviewing these coaches? I know they have that search firm they hired. Don't you think a GM would want to? Unless they just send them like the recorded interview? Really strange
Brian Flores for me, except I think he's done such a good job In Minnesota there will be other teams interested in him. If that happens, forget it if he has other options. The NYJ are an "If they're my ONLY option, even then, no thanks.." destination. And Rex, holy shit, makes perfect sense for this backwards run organization. Just let him hire Tanny as the GM and run the whole thing back with Sanchez as OC...
No way do I want Flores. He thought Tua stunk and didn't want him drafted. He smeared his own Owner, GM, and team. He also is involved in a bogus lawsuit against the NFL. A whiner and a loser.
Are you overlooking who owns the Jets?? Least it would be refreshing to have a coach call out Woody as the fuck up he is
I would bring in Rex if they are trying to rebound with this roster. If they are trying to rebuild and blow it up I wouldn't bring him in. Largely because if they are rebuilding it would mean a losing season is incoming. I think the sentiment would shift against Rex a lot faster then other head coaches because it would then feel like a continuation of where he left. I actually think Rex would be the perfect person to take over this roster if they wanted to give it one more shot. He would change the culture immediately and would bring life into this franchise on day one. Now do they hire him? Hard to say but I would say if Rex gets into the interview room with Woody Johnson he will 100% make the strongest case to Woody that he can turn the franchise around and win with this roster next year. No one will perform better in the interviews than Rex.
Ron Rivera is for the Rooney Rule. They want to knock that out day one. Obviously they probably interview Flores but Flores is on a playoff team so they can't do it day one, they would have to find time when he is free. I actually don't hate it. Rivera has made it further than any coach in the Jets history has since 1969 and further than other candidate. I'd take him over some coordinator any day.
Red Light/Green Light Red Light = "Don't throw an INT you bonehead" Green Light = "Go ahead and throw an INT. Our Defense can stop them"
It sounds like the Jets are getting all of the prelims out of the way meaning candidates not currently employed by an NFL team and the least likely to get the job. Dimitroff is about the only intriguing candidate of the bunch so far. Otherwise, none of these candidates should be taken seriously for the GM and HC openings. If the Jets brass and hiring committee is serious about any of these names, then the franchise should just fold altogether because these type of hires will set this franchise back another 5 years at minimum. Does anyone want to wait another 5+ years to search for the next savior of the franchise? I sure as hell don't as I've been waiting almost 50 years at this point. It's way too early and this is all just speculation but there are some really mediocre, uninspiring, downright awful names in that bunch. At this point in their careers, Rex Ryan and Rivera are full-on retread coaches who would fail miserably if they ever got another NFL HC gig. Anyways, I'm hoping these are just all prelim interviews before they go after the better names. We shall see.
Well, that has been my concern since day one, unless of course Woody plans to have both the GM and HC independently report to him. A terrifying thought
He sucks…yes he got the Panthers to a Super Bowl which is more than any of our coaches have done, but he has a losing career record and was terrible in Washington. He may bring some stability but he won’t bring winning I don’t think … I would see him as a guy who could get us to mediocre, which sure is better than our current terrible, but not much. Not a very inspired choice, and again, what GM would take this job if the owner has a new HC already in place that he didn’t hire? It’s such a typical stupid Jets thing to do.
Rivera’s a good guy but the games passed him by I think. I don’t think there are a lot of things he brings to the table in terms of scheme or culture that we can’t find elsewhere in the coaching realm.
Ron Rivera and the likes of him are really what we’re in the range of. We offer no promise to a top tier HC candidate. We have no QB, not in good position to draft one, and we’ll be purging a ton of cap room next year. We’re also short on a couple draft picks thanks to the current disaster. Ron Rivera/Jim Caldwell is the exact candidate we’ll end up hiring. We’ll stink next year, probably draft a QB the following year, then fire Rivera after 2 years in hopes of finally having a team worthy of luring a better HC candidate. The only coach worth his salt that might take this job is Gruden since he may not have many options.
Gruden would be a disaster here (or anywhere, for that matter). Yeah, he talks a very good game on those shows that he does and he does have enthusiasm for the game, but he wasn't any good in his second stint in Oakland/Vegas and most of the success that he had in Tampa was him being carried there by the defense. Gruden would be the exact kind of hire I would expect the Jets to make. All style and little in the way of substance. It would be the same with Rex as well. Hiring Rivera would just be boring, in addition to a terrible move from the standpoint of the on-the-field product, but at least that allow us to kind of fade into the background and just suck quietly at 1pm on Sundays where we wouldn't be made a laughingstock each week in front of a national audience. Maybe that's the goal we should be focusing on when making the hire, since the next guy is going to fall flat on his face anyway.
I think the larger realization is that there is no lock for a good head coach. Guys like Vrabel, Rex, Flores, Rivera are all questionable. The coordinators are a complete wild card. Pete Carrol is probably the best/safest but hes old and I want to hire a head coach that will be around for the next 10 years not 2 or 3. Regardless whoever we hire needs to be a guaranteed upgrade over Saleh/Ulbrich so the only way to ensure that is by hiring someone who has been a head coach imo. Hiring a coordinator runs the risk of a downgrade or just as bad if that is even possible.
