The Jets in December '14

I am worried that the Jets are going to blow a good opportunity in a high draft pick, tons of cap space and a decent schedule into another lost season in order to get away from a coach for will have at least a couple teams considering him for their HC for 2015. You can't keep changing coaches and expect to win. I think the Jets blew it with Pete Carroll, they had a decent young coach and decided they needed a change. How many times are we going to change for the sake of change? Rex is far from perfect but he is also far from horrible and I think if he has the players he can make things happen. The Jets had a horrible schedule to start the season. Probably the worst in the NFL, lost ALL of their CBs, did nothing to replace them and Geno was WAY to inconsistent. Not to mention Decker was banged up and there was no one behind him that could step up and carry the O.

Fill the holes in FA and have a strong draft for a change and this is a playoff team next year with decent coaching. 

Sad but true.

This.

Subtract Revis from NE, add him to the Jets and I have a strange hunch that a 27-25 loss and a 17-16 loss may have turned out slightly different.

I can't argue with the mistakes Rex continues to make. You'd hope they'd be corrected by now but they're still being made. That's the one thing that gives me major pause and why I understand the point of view on firing him.

But my key point is still that it only makes sense to fire him if you can get an upgrade. I'm not sure the Jets can do that. It makes zero sense to me to get rid of Rex simply to bring about change if you're going to hire someone who is subpar or is a big risk to crash and burn.

There's a history of some guys taking a while to learn the ins and outs of HC'ing. There's a lot involved. Belich!ck was fired from his first gig and his second only worked out when he stepped in dogshit and drafted one of the Top 5 QBs in NFL history. Pete Carroll seems to have benefited from several years of experience as well. I just get the sense that when Rex holds up that Lombardi trophy for another team he'll look back at the Jets job as a great training experience. We'll be the team that he took his lumps with and then fired him for not winning with Mark Sanchez and Geno Smith.

Shoulda, coulda, woulda, but didn't.

There's no doubt a lot of us are torn about Rex and yesterday we saw a team playing hard (finally) and it does give you pause for thought but you cannot ignore the mistakes,the unpreparedness, the bone-headed ness that is an ever-present in Rex's teams. I love the guy and wish it could work out and for sure the guy can coach a defense and inspires not just loyalty but an almost awe-inspiring level of adoration from his players but the signs are always there if you look hard enough.Nobody is talking about it but yesterday was all on Geno because yet again the defense let us down in big spots where in the first 2 or 3 years that never happened. There were the usual collection of dumb timeouts burned, missed tackles, confusion and so on but for once the offense-and the QB at that-carried the team and made it happen despite the usual clusterfvck of errors

You also cannot avoid the accusation that performances like yesterday all too often happen too late and increasingly in the last couple of years there's been an inevitability that when the big games come round we will conspire to lose. That run of murderous QB's at the beginning of the year was hard but to fail to tough out a single win in those 6 or so games said everything....we played and coached small when it mattered. I get what you're saying about guys learning their trade but what have you seen from Rex that you can point to-in 6 years,not a short period of time-that says he can Learn and improve?...I'm struggling to think of anything.

for me there are two things that have become obvious with hindsight:
1)Rex inherited a damn good unit on all sides that was primed and ready to win that had been built by Mangini and tannenbaum and crucially it was a disciplined team after 3 years of Mangini
2)Pettine was way more of an influence on Rex than we realised and without him our D has not been the same unit

i'd be cool with letting a new GM decide on Rex but I just don't see him as a learning coach and you'd have to be ready to lose several games a year purely on shooting ourselves in the foot or being unprepared. I don't think we are all that far away, much like the Cheifs when Andy Reid came in we have some talent in place we just need someone who can get the most out of everyone on the roster and has us playing smart, disciplined and well-drilled football week in and week out...that alone can cover for a lack of talent and negate the need to have pro-bowlers at every position