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Post by kreissage on Jan 12, 2015 13:18:41 GMT -5
Absolutely agree. Rex had to be fired as part of his evolution as a HC because he was on a down hill trend. I personally believe he's not stupid and will learn from his years here and will be one of the all time greats.
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Post by frostlich on Jan 12, 2015 17:14:44 GMT -5
Get over Rex? That's hard to imagine.
So, I'm gonna get out of bed every morning... breath in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won't have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breath in and out... and, then after a while, I won't have to think about how the Jets had it great and perfect for a while.
What made Rex special?
It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant Rex was supposed to be our Head Coach... and we knew it. We knew it the very first press conference. It was like winning a Superbowl... only like no Superbowl we'd ever known... we were just wearing the same sweater vest and I knew. It was like... magic.
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Post by Hotman on Jan 12, 2015 17:27:55 GMT -5
Rex was a different man back then, and a much better coach. He got neutered by the media when Hard cocks came out because he cussed too much. And people (refs/owners) got afraid when he vowed we would hit back, so they hired the refs to take care of him. That is what happened to Rex and they will continue to bone the shell of fat Rex until he goes to TV where they want him.
Goodnight sweet prince, you have been gone for years and replaced with a corporate yes man. We will remember you, sung like sara mccagnan
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Post by rangerous on Jan 12, 2015 18:54:48 GMT -5
I've been pretty clear and unapologetic that I think Rex got a raw deal and, had we not already changed the GM once and kept Rex at HC, we likely would have retained him after this season. That said, I'm a Jets fan first and foremost, 110%. I think letting him go will be looked back upon with regret by both Woody and fans alike. Rex has flaws, several of them, but to me the good outweighed the bad. I don't just want a good coach with some great general management experience who can consistently get us to 8 or 9 wins with the occasional playoff flirtation. I want a guy who, even if he follows up an 8 win season with a 4 win season, you know he could uncork an 11 win season and make a serious, hard push to a Conference title while leaving HOF quarterbacks in tears on their own 50 yard lines in the playoffs. I think the reason that Rex is going to "echo" around here for a while isn't just because he went to the Bills, it's because we feel like we had a glimpse of what might have been. We feel like it wasn't just luck that the Jets made serious noise for a while and even this year, lost by only 1 point and then 2 points to the AFC's #1 seed. My personal opinion is that we took a guy with little offensive experience and handicapped him with no QB. We took a guy with a dynamite defensive scheme predicated on CBs and gave him arguably the worst CB tandem in the league while we watched the best player the Jets ever drafted go to a division rival. We never had a GM strong enough to force the right OC on Rex. Rex needed that. A good organization accentuates the strengths of its people and works to mitigate their weaknesses. It doesn't neuter a guys defense by ignoring FA cornerbacks and continuing to give him a subpar QB. I'm not afraid to say that I think the Jets got rid of one of the few good parts of the team when they ditched Rex. But again, I also see the several reasons why people felt he was coming up short, and those are all valid arguments. Again, it's just my opinion but I think the Jets screwed up the GM hire two years ago so royally that Rex became collateral damage. Go Jets! agree with this. imo, whatever shortcomings rex had as jets coach they could've been mitigated by having a gm who actually knew the game and was good at talent evaluation. and even if idziks draft choices do pan out, going into your frist season as gm already looking for a head coach replacement is no way to win friends and influence people. about all idzik did was let rex know who was boss but that meant pushing geno to start this season and keeping rex muzzled not to mention not letting rex have a say regarding the players. all this past season's team needed to do was score a measily 20+ points per game.
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Post by RayRay1 on Jan 12, 2015 21:37:10 GMT -5
I've been pretty clear and unapologetic that I think Rex got a raw deal and, had we not already changed the GM once and kept Rex at HC, we likely would have retained him after this season. That said, I'm a Jets fan first and foremost, 110%. I think letting him go will be looked back upon with regret by both Woody and fans alike. Rex has flaws, several of them, but to me the good outweighed the bad. I don't just want a good coach with some great general management experience who can consistently get us to 8 or 9 wins with the occasional playoff flirtation. I want a guy who, even if he follows up an 8 win season with a 4 win season, you know he could uncork an 11 win season and make a serious, hard push to a Conference title while leaving HOF quarterbacks in tears on their own 50 yard lines in the playoffs. I think the reason that Rex is going to "echo" around here for a while isn't just because he went to the Bills, it's because we feel like we had a glimpse of what might have been. We feel like it wasn't just luck that the Jets made serious noise for a while and even this year, lost by only 1 point and then 2 points to the AFC's #1 seed. My personal opinion is that we took a guy with little offensive experience and handicapped him with no QB. We took a guy with a dynamite defensive scheme predicated on CBs and gave him arguably the worst CB tandem in the league while we watched the best player the Jets ever drafted go to a division rival. We never had a GM strong enough to force the right OC on Rex. Rex needed that. A good organization accentuates the strengths of its people and works to mitigate their weaknesses. It doesn't neuter a guys defense by ignoring FA cornerbacks and continuing to give him a subpar QB. I'm not afraid to say that I think the Jets got rid of one of the few good parts of the team when they ditched Rex. But again, I also see the several reasons why people felt he was coming up short, and those are all valid arguments. Again, it's just my opinion but I think the Jets screwed up the GM hire two years ago so royally that Rex became collateral damage. Go Jets! Beautifully written!!!
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