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[slats]

the problem is we keep giving "up and comers" their first chance and they fail

How many GMs and/or HCs have won a Super Bowl, moved on to another team, and won another?

[bassmaster2]

This is a 8-8 team ,Rex done good job , the GM is in charge of bring in the talent and the GM done a poor job but i think Johnson will bring both back because he want Teebow , Teebow is terrible

[tEYbow]

The Jets are about an attractive destination as the North Pole. Come enjoy our salary cap mess, garbage QBs, malcontent WR, and an aging defense built to win now on a .500 team! Free punch and pie.

Actually think it's a great destination for exactly that reason... You get a ton more rope. I don't think anyone could reasonably call for the guys head for a couple years.

What makes it unattractive is Woody Johnson.

[RutgersJetFan]

Sandy Alderson.

[Integrity28]

The Jets are about an attractive destination as the North Pole. Come enjoy our salary cap mess, garbage QBs, malcontent WR, and an aging defense built to win now on a .500 team! Free punch and pie.

Untrue. We hit rock bottom so hard, again, that there'll be a decent timeline that comes with this gig. The roster is so thin, no expectations can be fairly attached until I'd say the 3rd season. That's a good gig, especially if we go after an "up and comer" as Slats mentioned.

Personally, all the Jets ever do is hire hot "prospects". I'd be in the camp of getting a GM that has done it before, a coach too. I'm tired of the Jets being a petri dish for coaching, management and scouting employees.

[Pac]

Lets not forget Polian was the architect of that horrible 2-14 Colt team from last year. Preparing his son for the role with on the job training sounds shady as well. Haven't we already met our quota for nepotism hires with Rex and Schotty Jr.?

[dbatesman]

We need an adult in the room, but Polian's 70 years old and spent the last three years of his Colts tenure ceding authority to his idiot son. Meh.

[BroadwayJoe12]

We need an adult in the room, but Polian's 70 years old and spent the last three years of his Colts tenure ceding authority to his idiot son. Meh.

It really shouldn't be this hard to find a person who's spent their entire life around football who we can trust to evaluate ****ing football talent. Every time I assume that someone who's played, coached and managed should be brought in, I think of Matt Millen and the whole "football man" mantra goes out the window. I just want someone competent; i'm no longer going to be greedy, just someone competent who won't put the team in a proverbial sh*tstorm, and just provide our coach with solid to good talent. If we had solid to good play at a few positions this year, we're a playoff team. Asking for league average shouldn't be difficult.

[T0mShane]

What would Polian's career look like with the Colts if he didn't have the luck of having the No 1 pick in a year when a franchise QB was coming out? NTM he only won one super bowl with the hall of fame QB and 2 HOF WR's because he was never able to build a D around him while hiring terrible coaches like Tony Dungy and Jim Caldwell. No thanks.

You can question his coaching selections, but Polian's personnel currently has that team in the playoffs. Obviously, the QB is a huge factor, but Polian would find someone adequate. As for his defensive failures, he was shopping for Dungy's 225 lb linebackers and 270 lb DTs.

[T0mShane]

Thank you.

I'd rather go after a hungry up & comer from an organization like the Giants or Ravens, than bring on Polian for his fourth go-round.

Zero chance Woody Johnson is equipped to find that guy. Zero chance.

[Jetscode1]

Woody needs to talk to Tom Heckert who rumors says will be out of a job in Cleveland at the year's end. Probably not the quick turn around guy but thought he's done well in the draft the last couple years.

[slats]

Zero chance Woody Johnson is equipped to find that guy. Zero chance.

I think you have to keep trying. I don't see a guy like Polian having much -if any- better results in terms of wins and losses than Tannenbaum. It's not that hard to look at organizations you'd like yours to emulate, and steal one of their top lieutenants.

[unbanmadmike1]

You can question his coaching selections, but Polian's personnel currently has that team in the playoffs. Obviously, the QB is a huge factor, but Polian would find someone adequate. As for his defensive failures, he was shopping for Dungy's 225 lb linebackers and 270 lb DTs.

That's pretty untrue. The Colts have about 8 rookies drafted this season who are making big contributions.,

[#27TheDominator]

The FO and the coach do not have a clue. The announcement today was the right one, but it was still wrong. You don;t jump over your declared number two. Even when they are right they are wrong. That means it is time to go.

He's not really the #2. He's the punt protector/wildcat guy. That doesn't mean he is the second best QB. **** him and **** doing things the way the press thinks they should be done.

[Bleedin Green]

He's not really the #2. He's the punt protector/wildcat guy. That doesn't mean he is the second best QB. **** him and **** doing things the way the press thinks they should be done.

This. It's pretty obvious at this point that Tebow being the other active QB had little to nothing to do with him being seen by this team as a real backup QB, but rather it was because he was the gimmick guy who would be getting some real snaps and they figured, if they were absolutely forced to (due to injury), he could finish out a game under center and so they didn't have to bother using an active roster spot on a third QB. At least that was clearly Rex's point of view.