I'm actually shocked that a positive post on this site made it to 20 replies without someone screaming homer and throwing a fit!
Indeed. If you're going to take on the pain of rebuilding the Good Ship NYJets, why have Captain Wrongway Peter Peachfuzz at the helm?
One thing, I want to see improved is increased intensity from opening kickoff. You never see this team come out of the locker-room fired up, always seem to start off every game flat. Second, I want to see a decrease in false start penalties, and especially the dumb penalties like taunting or unnecessary roughness. Feel these kinds of penalties are a sign of poor coaching.
Jets fan perspective: the two best coaches in Jets history, Weeb Ewbank and Bill Parcells were both 62 when they had their last double digit win season for the playoffs. Shula had one more double-digit win season in him at 64. Landry's last was 61. There are a few coaches who have lasted outside 62 but they are rare individuals, usually with a lot of prior head coaching experience that allowed them to be very good delegators. That or they just had both a cast-iron constitution and also the good sense not to live off McDonalds take out 8 months of the year. That will retire anybody by 62 - eating fast food and sitting at a desk all the time watching video of interactions that you can barely influence but the guys who do it get the 2% that puts them over the top.
The good news is: Bowles will have to give us great results long before he hits 62 if he still wants to be a head coach by the time he reaches that age. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk
What disturbed me most last season was what seemed to be a lackadaisical attitude from both players and the head coach. I say "seemed" because I don't know how intense TB was behind the scenes. But he has to be willing to cut somebody in the middle of the season to light a fire under the teams ass. If he's going to be one of these "You're all my chest-bumping bros to the bitter end!" types like Ryan, we are hopeless. He should also be ready to cut and also trade for players late in November to make the team ready for the playoffs, by then the coaches should have identified the weaknesses on the team. Nothing says "Don't get complacent!" like a Thanksgiving week cut! If it were me, I would have a somewhat overpaid vet on the active roster, with his replacement ready on the practice squad, that I could cut at any time just for lighting-a-fire-under-their-ass purposes. Ron
Few things I feel good about: -Not being reactionary every time we have 1 bad season. -Not spending half our cap on a garbage secondary anymore -Recommitting to building through the draft with a focus on BPA. Does that equal success? Not necessarily, but its a better strategy than the Tanny/Idzik years.
Interesting that Kevin Greene pretty much was behind the Donahue pick...said to have a similar motor and Greene liked him when checking him out. Kinda intrigued to see his progression especially under greene's tuitilage
That was the whole reason why Woody brought in Casserly and Wolf to help him find these guys. That year, Macagnan and Bowles were among the top candidates around. Remember when we were complaining that Woody needs to bring in football people to find the right people for the new regime? Yeah he did just that.
What a thought. If I believed that his was a likely outcome I would join a Trappist monastery and take up gardening. Might be the right thing to do either way.
Well, they DID drag their feet for two years. And the QBs they did draft previously do not, right now, look like they are going ot make it. So maybe drafting another would not have been such a bad idea?
I'm not sure that Bowles is 1) Young (maybe by Casserly standards) and 2) Respected (by any kind of consensus in the NFL) Saying it's so isn't good enough, we're not seeing a lot of commentary (or any at all) to back that up.
quarterback this year would have been a total waste of a pic and would have set the jets back another year Drafting another quarterback would have been a total waste of a pick and would have set the jets back another year I say check out what you have has quarterback and if if they don't work out then draft one of the quarterbacks which are much better than this year's quarterbacks in the 2018 draft
I dont buy it... Idzik tried the same thing... moved on form older guys, cleared cap, added young players... then 1.5 years after woody signed off on the rebuild he caved, fired idzik and the new GM just spent that cap room and assets on older players and win now guys sure we need ot rebuild... but ill buy it when 3 years down the road we are still on course and not signign 35 year olds or trading picks for veterans
Bowles is highly respect by his peers and everyone who has played for him. Idk why he's getting so much hate...oh wait SOJF
Where are you getting this information from? A reporter asks a player "How's coach doing?" The player says "He's a great coach and a good guy." What else is he going to say? Seriously - who says Bowles is not just respected or well respected, but "highly respected?" Who says he is respected at all? Why would he be so highly respected anyway? What has he done to build that respect?
How about Bruce Ariens, Andy Reid, Parcells and the rest of the men he's coached for and with? And the men he played with and for, for starters? What, his peers think badly of him like some of the experts on here that don't have a fuckin clue about him? Of course he has respect within the league. It's stupid to think he doesn't. The guys an NFL lifer. There's a long list of coaches that got the opportunity to learn on the job, and there's none that didn't make mistakes along the way, and then learn from them.
