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I'm not happy with how this is being handled. My gut would say that Marrone is likely not a great candidate to begin with (but admittedly, who knows?) but how could they be interviewing and considering anyone for the position before they have a GM in place. I realize Woody is clueless, but what exactly are Casserly and Wolf doing if they are allowing this to happen?
Looking more and more like Marrone is the guy and the GM search is focusing on guys with Marrone ties - this way even if they hire Marrone 1st they will still have a GM who would have selected him....I still dont like how Woody is conducting the search...swapping Rex for Marrone is not an upgrade IMO....and selecting the HC before the GM is just a bad idea even if they like Marrone.
Yep. I don't know if Marrone spit in Mehta's cornflakes or something, but Mehta is already leading the charge against Marrone. Obviously you have to take everything Mehta says with a whole lot of salt, but some of the stories he's relaying are insane. More importantly, I just think it's really odd that Woody is treating Marrone as some kind of can't-miss coaching prospect, even though he has no track record to support that.
I have since come around to the haters and am against Marrone coming to the Jets.
I feel pretty confident saying that if Marrone comes to the Jets, we won't get the opportunity to find out how he'd do with a really good QB.
I've only seen two games but I would draft him ahead of Winston if you want a traditional pocket QB (although he is a little mobile). Strong arm, mostly accurate but will force passes do to overconfidence in his arm. Reminds me a lot of Roethlisberger and a little less athletic Bortles. He'll go early 2nd.
Was that other source Chris Mortenson? Mortenson and Schefter share the same agent as Marrone...
cimini from espn and kim martin from newsday reporting it went well....
Dang that sounds not unlike like what Zimmer said about Petrino when he left the Falcons.
who know how the interview really went but the Jets did let him leave the complex without signing him and allowing him to go interview at other places..
I like Quinn over Marrone...but I just don't see the point with another defensive guy. Everyone agrees that Rex was great with the D...gambling that Quinn would be more of a complete head coach than Rex with so much less experience....I think it would be a step back. Jets needs a new identity and offensive philosophy...man I miss the days of a dynamic Jet O - Wesley Walker, Toon, Key, Chrbet, Cumart....it's an offensive league and time for an offensive coach IMO.
Yeah, it is because the owner is a goofball and the fans and media are tough on general managers and head coaches. It takes a special kind of person to succeed with this team.
He wears a ballcap with a suit, says dopey stuff during press conferences (for instance, when asked to provide one word to describe Rex Ryan, he said, "Try hard"), once paid some non-Jet employee $300,000 to find a GM (John Idzik) and loves owning a football team and entertaining rich people in his box during games. Johnson is not like Snyder at all. The former is goofy. The latter is an #####.
Oh, there's no question about it. Obviously Francessa hates them with a passion. Rich Cimini takes shots at them and makes little stupid one liners (that you just know he thinks are SUPER clever) at the end of every "article" he writes for ESPN.
I'll say one thing positive about Woody. I think the "all he cares about are PSL sales" narrative is a bit unfair. I absolutely believe the guy wants to win. This isn't some vanity hobby for him. I think it legitimately bothers him when they lose.
Yeah, I think this is all accurate. He wants to win, and he wants to be relevant. I think he'd be more than happy to take a hands-off approach with a good GM; I just don't think he has the ability to pick a good GM, or at least he hasn't shown that so far. As for the PSLs, it's worth noting that MetLife was privately funded, so there's a lot more of an investment to make back. Not that I have too much sympathy for the guy, who's a billionaire, but at least the only people being bled dry are those who are willingly going to Jets games, as opposed to taxpayers footing the bill.
He also once said he sympathizes with the fans that have to pay for PSL and season tickets, because he knows what it's like to scrimp and save - despite being born into one of the richest families in America.
Manish is also Syracuse and he's ripping the guy apart.... So, either way they have an agenda...
Yeah, the NY media (or I guess I should say the Jets media, since the NYG writers aren't like this) are almost all agenda-driven hacks. What's weird is that Mehta used to be the best Jets beat writer when he worked for the Star Ledger, but once he went to the Daily News, he immediately turned into a troll. His article that he wrote last year when he said that Rex gave up on the team because he went to see his son on cutdown day stands as perhaps the worst piece of "journalism" of all time.
Think the article was way too soft on Idzik - you can preach builing through the draft then whiff on most of your draft picks. A 4 win team had 2 players that looked decent, neither of which were starters all year....that's unacceptable with 12 picks, Throw in it was the best WR draft in decades and he ended up with 0 catches from rookie WRs...awful
Yeah.. Not worth Debating... I was the most furious fan I know on draft day last year....lol. He tried to be way too cute on WR depth of that draft. Hopefully these OL he drafted pan out and maybe a WR....
QB is one thing...I look at Building thru the draft as nailing a lot of good talent.... Good enough to carry a team as a QB develops... SEA Drafted well while still taking swipes at QB which allowed Wilson to play a role at 1st on a team that could run the ball, protect the QB and play lights out D.
