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From the Sporting News...let the blood letting begin...personally I'd rather Woody just sell the team.

 

 

 

The man responsible for the abomination the New York Jets have become might be the safest of everyone in the organization because general managers almost never get fired in midseason.

Break the mold, Jets. Go ahead and fire John Idzik. This is his fault. 

274673-650-366.jpgJohn Idzik (Getty Images)

MORE: Jets try trick play, fail miserably | Sammy Watkins' TD celebration blooper | Must-see images

It’s mind-numbing to realize that going into Sunday’s home game against the Bills, these Jets were still dealing in fantasies and delusions. They hung in there at New England two Thursdays ago, so there’s light at the end of the tunnel. Geno Smith’s career was now on an upswing. If he faltered, Michael Vick was still there, having learned his lesson about being ready to play. 

Percy Harvin was the weapon the offense needed. These players loved Rex Ryan and weren’t going to quit on him. If they got a little momentum against a softer schedule, playoff contention wasn’t hard to see in the distance.

Please.

The Bills slapped the entire franchise back into reality, 43-23. Nobody should have felt the sting more than Idzik. 

Two years isn’t enough time, really, to fully judge someone in his position, or the personnel moves he makes. That is, unless the 6-10 team you took over overachieved to 8-8, then nosedived to 1-7, with no hope in sight, a lame-duck coach and two turnover machines at your most important position — one painfully young and overmatched, the other essentially washed up.

FITZGERALD: Jets turmoil a product of Idzik's suspcious spending Stats | Geno's INTs

Thus, kicking Ryan to the curb not only doesn’t help, it doesn’t solve the biggest problem. The Jets would be the second team this season to make this mistake. The Raiders made Dennis Allen walk the plank, even though it was general manager Reggie McKenzie who gave him a job he wasn’t ready to handle, and a roster that couldn’t win.

Ryan couldn’t even get some contract security after making chicken salad out of … what Idzik gave him last season. Somehow, it was Ryan who ended up having to prove that he deserved more time. It’s Idzik’s feet that should have been held to that fire.

Eventually it will be. It would be more just, though, if he were pushed overboard first.

No, practically and logistically, it doesn’t work that way. There’s no precedence for sacking the general manager and letting the coach finish the season that has succeeded recently. Even if it happened, Ryan’s future would be no safer. The trade deadline is Tuesday, and even if there were more time to work with that, the Jets have no real assets to move. 

Plus, Harvin was their move. Harvin will end up wasting half of a season wandering around hoping Smith or Vick will figure out where he is.

Yet Harvin is the closest the Jets have to a glimmer of hope, which is scary considering the bridges he’s managed to burn already in his young career.

Nevertheless, it’s inconceivable that Idzik and Ryan will be back in 2015. Idzik will collect a few more paychecks than Ryan, probably. It should be the other way around.

Unless owner Woody Johnson metes out some real justice — if he decides to get his money’s worth and forces Idzik to watch the monster he created play out this lost season. 

The long-suffering Jets’ faithful might get a little enjoyment out of that. They deserve some.

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idiotic article...Rex is the main problem, though Idzik does seem over his head. Fire everyone including the scouts and Bradway

 

The problem is systemic... the Jets routinely hire people to do jobs they have never done, who don't have the qualifications to do those jobs, or because they are willing to take those jobs due to circumstances that the Jets create that eliminate better candidates from being interested. 

 

The football operations side of the Jets is built on a paradigm that only promotes failure. Plain and simple. 

 

Rex. Idzik. Tanny. Mangini. Schotty. Sporano. These are all guys that should have never held the jobs they did. They were problems for us, but not "the" problem.

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From the Sporting News...let the blood letting begin...personally I'd rather Woody just sell the team.

 

 

 

The man responsible for the abomination the New York Jets have become might be the safest of everyone in the organization because general managers almost never get fired in midseason.

Break the mold, Jets. Go ahead and fire John Idzik. This is his fault. 

274673-650-366.jpgJohn Idzik (Getty Images)

MORE: Jets try trick play, fail miserably | Sammy Watkins' TD celebration blooper | Must-see images

It’s mind-numbing to realize that going into Sunday’s home game against the Bills, these Jets were still dealing in fantasies and delusions. They hung in there at New England two Thursdays ago, so there’s light at the end of the tunnel. Geno Smith’s career was now on an upswing. If he faltered, Michael Vick was still there, having learned his lesson about being ready to play. 

Percy Harvin was the weapon the offense needed. These players loved Rex Ryan and weren’t going to quit on him. If they got a little momentum against a softer schedule, playoff contention wasn’t hard to see in the distance.

Please.

The Bills slapped the entire franchise back into reality, 43-23. Nobody should have felt the sting more than Idzik. 

Two years isn’t enough time, really, to fully judge someone in his position, or the personnel moves he makes. That is, unless the 6-10 team you took over overachieved to 8-8, then nosedived to 1-7, with no hope in sight, a lame-duck coach and two turnover machines at your most important position — one painfully young and overmatched, the other essentially washed up.

FITZGERALD: Jets turmoil a product of Idzik's suspcious spending Stats | Geno's INTs

Thus, kicking Ryan to the curb not only doesn’t help, it doesn’t solve the biggest problem. The Jets would be the second team this season to make this mistake. The Raiders made Dennis Allen walk the plank, even though it was general manager Reggie McKenzie who gave him a job he wasn’t ready to handle, and a roster that couldn’t win.

Ryan couldn’t even get some contract security after making chicken salad out of … what Idzik gave him last season. Somehow, it was Ryan who ended up having to prove that he deserved more time. It’s Idzik’s feet that should have been held to that fire.

Eventually it will be. It would be more just, though, if he were pushed overboard first.

No, practically and logistically, it doesn’t work that way. There’s no precedence for sacking the general manager and letting the coach finish the season that has succeeded recently. Even if it happened, Ryan’s future would be no safer. The trade deadline is Tuesday, and even if there were more time to work with that, the Jets have no real assets to move. 

Plus, Harvin was their move. Harvin will end up wasting half of a season wandering around hoping Smith or Vick will figure out where he is.

Yet Harvin is the closest the Jets have to a glimmer of hope, which is scary considering the bridges he’s managed to burn already in his young career.

Nevertheless, it’s inconceivable that Idzik and Ryan will be back in 2015. Idzik will collect a few more paychecks than Ryan, probably. It should be the other way around.

Unless owner Woody Johnson metes out some real justice — if he decides to get his money’s worth and forces Idzik to watch the monster he created play out this lost season. 

The long-suffering Jets’ faithful might get a little enjoyment out of that. They deserve some.

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From the Sporting News...let the blood letting begin...personally I'd rather Woody just sell the team.

 

 

 

The man responsible for the abomination the New York Jets have become might be the safest of everyone in the organization because general managers almost never get fired in midseason.

Break the mold, Jets. Go ahead and fire John Idzik. This is his fault. 

274673-650-366.jpgJohn Idzik (Getty Images)

MORE: Jets try trick play, fail miserably | Sammy Watkins' TD celebration blooper | Must-see images

It’s mind-numbing to realize that going into Sunday’s home game against the Bills, these Jets were still dealing in fantasies and delusions. They hung in there at New England two Thursdays ago, so there’s light at the end of the tunnel. Geno Smith’s career was now on an upswing. If he faltered, Michael Vick was still there, having learned his lesson about being ready to play. 

Percy Harvin was the weapon the offense needed. These players loved Rex Ryan and weren’t going to quit on him. If they got a little momentum against a softer schedule, playoff contention wasn’t hard to see in the distance.

Please.

The Bills slapped the entire franchise back into reality, 43-23. Nobody should have felt the sting more than Idzik. 

Two years isn’t enough time, really, to fully judge someone in his position, or the personnel moves he makes. That is, unless the 6-10 team you took over overachieved to 8-8, then nosedived to 1-7, with no hope in sight, a lame-duck coach and two turnover machines at your most important position — one painfully young and overmatched, the other essentially washed up.

FITZGERALD: Jets turmoil a product of Idzik's suspcious spending Stats | Geno's INTs

Thus, kicking Ryan to the curb not only doesn’t help, it doesn’t solve the biggest problem. The Jets would be the second team this season to make this mistake. The Raiders made Dennis Allen walk the plank, even though it was general manager Reggie McKenzie who gave him a job he wasn’t ready to handle, and a roster that couldn’t win.

Ryan couldn’t even get some contract security after making chicken salad out of … what Idzik gave him last season. Somehow, it was Ryan who ended up having to prove that he deserved more time. It’s Idzik’s feet that should have been held to that fire.

Eventually it will be. It would be more just, though, if he were pushed overboard first.

No, practically and logistically, it doesn’t work that way. There’s no precedence for sacking the general manager and letting the coach finish the season that has succeeded recently. Even if it happened, Ryan’s future would be no safer. The trade deadline is Tuesday, and even if there were more time to work with that, the Jets have no real assets to move. 

Plus, Harvin was their move. Harvin will end up wasting half of a season wandering around hoping Smith or Vick will figure out where he is.

Yet Harvin is the closest the Jets have to a glimmer of hope, which is scary considering the bridges he’s managed to burn already in his young career.

Nevertheless, it’s inconceivable that Idzik and Ryan will be back in 2015. Idzik will collect a few more paychecks than Ryan, probably. It should be the other way around.

Unless owner Woody Johnson metes out some real justice — if he decides to get his money’s worth and forces Idzik to watch the monster he created play out this lost season. 

The long-suffering Jets’ faithful might get a little enjoyment out of that. They deserve some.

MADE them a mess. He took over Tannenbaums "Camelot" and ruined it. LOL

LORD HELP US

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The problem is systemic... the Jets routinely hire people to do jobs they have never done, who don't have the qualifications to do those jobs, or because they are willing to take those jobs due to circumstances that the Jets create that eliminate better candidates from being interested. 

 

The football operations side of the Jets is built on a paradigm that only promotes failure. Plain and simple. 

 

Rex. Idzik. Tanny. Mangini. Schotty. Sporano. These are all guys that should have never held the jobs they did. They were problems for us, but not "the" problem.

 

I knew this GM hire was going to be a clusterf##k from the jump when it was announced that a corporate executive head hunter was hired to find the next GM.

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If Rex gets the hammer why would Woody bother to keep Idzik? If Idzik was hired because nobody else wanted the job in which they were forced to keep the HC, what's the point if Rex gets fired? Wouldn't woody go out and get a real GM if Rex does get the axe? Common sense would say so...no point in keeping Idzik if Rex get's the hammer.

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Both Idzik and Rex absolutely have to go, there is no doubt about it.

 

Rex should have been gone after 2012, how he survived that is beyond stupid. The fact that he lucked into an 8-8 schedule with a point differential that pointed more to a 4-12 team was the reality.

 

Idzik is completely in over his head, and was only hired because of Woody's moronic insistence that Rex be retained, rather than letting the GM candidate determine his faith, in which any decent candidate said no thanks.

 

The older I get, the less patient I get. If this debacle is handled as I expect, which is to put a band-aid on a severed limb , I just don't know how much longer I can support this team. When I was younger, I would tolerate the ineptitude from this franchise and continue to go to games and passionately root for the Jets. I can deal with failure, what I have a hard time with is the stupidity in which this moron owner continues to operate.

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