http://www.newsday.com/sports/football/jets/ny-spjim0815,0,6564086.column I feel a bit bad for Nagle, the most interesting part of the article is this statement: "But the way the situation worked out, the dynamics, the overall paradigm shift with Bruce Coslet feeling like his job was on line so he brings Boomer in, that cut my credibility short immediately. When you bring in a big salary guy and a big name, there's not going to be a comeback season for a young quarterback." Does this sound familiar, a high draft pick spends 1/2 a season as the starter, bombs the brief audition and in the offseason is replaced by a high paid SB proven quarterback.....in 93 it was Esiason, now it is Favre. Ladies and gentleman BROWNING NAGLE IS KELLEN CLEMENS!!! Unfortunately, we all know the result with Boomer, I really hope the outcome is different for Favre, and God knows so does Tangini and co. Brilliant! ps. I'm kind of happy I am allowed to post a thread now, always a first for something....its the little things!
Except Browning Nagle was someone a majority of fans didn't want, and Clemens dosen't try to rip his recievers arms off with screen passes.
Plus Boomer was still in his early 30's at the time, Favre's literally a year-to-year proposition if not a month to month one.
What kind of season was Boomer trying to rebound from when he came to the Jets? Favre just had one of his best statistical years in a Hall of Fame career. Nagle may have single-handedly ended Al Toon's career by hanging him out to dry over the middle. I believe Kellen is better than Nagle, but that doesn't mean the Jets would be better off letting him start this year. Favre is here for 1 year.
ok, check out Esiason's stats in '92, the year before he arrived in Gotham: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/players/stats?playerId=6476 Not exactly a world beater. And a 57 QB rating to boot.
Clemens will never be a starting QB going into a season for the NYJ. If Favre is one and done that means we had a shitty year, which means Woody WILL be cleaning house, which means Clemens will be in the unemployment line along with Tangini. The new regime will bring in their own guys either a #1 draft pick or a less than 39 yr old vet. Wow, I just described my worst nightmare....I'll say it again, Clemens is the second coming of Browning Nagle.
So what would your answer have been, to start Noodle arm? According to this logic, starting Clemens would be tantamount to throwing the season away. This is a win now team. Make no mistake. I'd rather see more of Ratliff than of any of the other clowns masquerading as QB's on the Jets roster, but he's unproven to say the least, and this team is not in a rebuilding mode.
Browning Nagle was never the best QB on the team. Before Boomer got here Ken O'Brien was still around, but Coslet didn't like him for whatever reason. I believe O'Brien held out in the 1992 camp and Nagle got a chance, the Jets had a 5-0 pre-season and the job was his. His first regular season game was impressive though we lost, and then it was downhill from there. O'Brien actually won the starters job back by late in the season, but then a thumb injury finished him for the year and they brought Boomer in during the following off season. Nagle never made it anywhere else either, so he can blame Coslet or Boomer, but if he was good he'd have made it somewhere. Good QBs are hard to find. Jeff Blake was the #3 QB on that team and he ended up getting his chance and going to a Pro Bowl--of course not for us but for Coslet in Cincinnati.
Yeah, O'Brien went out in the KC game, same game Byrd was paralyzed. My point in this thread is that Clemens very easily could have his career over before it ever started, based on personnel decisions out of his hands. I hated when we drafted Nagle but don't think he ever got a fair shot, just like Clemens - for better or worse. You would hate to see Clemens talking 20 years from now how the move to bring in Favre buried his career and he was never really ever given a shot again, by the Jets or another team. That is the essence of this article from Nagel. But because this is a win now business the move to bring in a guy like Favre is going to be made everytime, and the poor pawn in this case Clemens is the innocent victim. Let's hope Favre pans out and we win a SB.
I guess what I'm saying is that good QBs are in such demand that if you're any good you'll get a shot eventually. Look at the QB market--Chad got a job for the same money the day after he was released, people call Vinny up every year and he ends up starting games. Guys like Chris Chandler, Jeff George, they weren't even that good but if you can do anything you keep getting chances. Like my example with Jeff Blake, he was good enough to stay on a roster long enough to get a shot. If it takes you four years to show you might be good, chances are you aren't very good. Blake got a chance one day and took advantage of it, and the Bengals in those days weren't any better than the 2007 Jets.
Nagle did get a raw deal being pushed to the side after one season in favor of Boomer, who we all know was Coslets boy. That 92 Jets team was a nightmare, injuries plauged them all year, most notable, Dennis Byrd. Nagle never had a chance as a young QB on that team, 93 is when the Jets brought in Ronnie Lott, Eric Thomas, etc, it was a much better team then 92 and had Nagle been the starter he may have had a better year? Who knows. What would a young Brett Favre have done on that 92 Jets team? He may be out of the league like Nagle had he come here, or he may have still had a HOF career which would have made the 90's much easier to watch for all us Jets fans. We'll never know, I just feel for Nagle, but like the one guy said, he went on to 3 other teams after he left here and it didn't work out on those teams either.
People blame the injuries, but that 1992 team was down the tubes before Toon and Byrd got hurt. Both went down in November, they started 0-4, it was over by the end of September.
hey guys please stop talking about me like that. I was a magical beast on the field with my glowing blonde locks and ever-lasting boyish good looks. Plus, Kyle Brady and I were the Jordan and Pippen of our time. Fuck a Browning Nagle rookie biotch Love, Boomskies
