Florio trying to fan the flames of Pats/Jets hatred - New England Patriots Forums

JoeSixPat · 12-13-2007, 08:18 PM

File this one in Florios posting before thinking category... I doubt even the most die hard Patriots fan will see their blood pressure rise on this one.

I'm supposed to be mad because MangIdiot is publically signing the praises of Josh McDaniels as a potential head coach? I'm supposed to worry that this is going to cause more teams to be interested in him?

Uhm - memo to Mike Florio. This is Eric "The Rat" MangIdiot we're talking about here. How many Presidential candidates are hoping George Bush gives them his endorsement?

As far as I'm concerned Eric's doing us another favor - this one's not as nice as giving our team the drive and determination for a Perfect Season, but making other team GM's have second thoughts about stealing our OC isn't a bad Christmas gift either.

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POSTED 1:34 p.m. EST, December 13, 2007
http://www.profootballtalk.com/rumormill.htm
MORE FODDER FOR MANGINI-BELICHICK FEUD

Though the question of whether the Jets were spying on the Pats and other teams has dominated the discussion leading up their Week Fifteen get-together, Jets coach Eric Mangini might have given Patriots coach Bill Belichick even more reason to plaster his picture in the center of a dart board by openly pimping New England offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels for head-coaching jobs.

"I think obviously he'll be a candidate for some of those head coaching jobs,” Mangini said on Wednesday regarding McDaniels, "and I think it's justifiable."

That said, it's not as if people who'll be hiring head coaches for NFL teams don't know to scan the staff of a franchise that is having one of the greatest seasons in the history of organized sports.

So, yeah, McDaniels and defensive coordinator Dean Pees (about seven times a day) are obvious candidates for head-coaching gigs. And with NFL teams less likely to pluck coaches from the college ranks in light of the Nick Saban and Bobby Petrino experiences, successful coordinators will be even more marketable.

What we're saying then is that it's not like owners are going to target McDaniels because he wears the Eric Mangini Seal of Approval. Still, given the beyond-dysfunctional nature of the relationship between these two franchises, and indignity is going to cause blood to boil.

***BigMike*** · 12-13-2007, 08:33 PM

enough of this chit already - we all know goodell isnt going to take this up, so lets just kill the jets on sunday and make sure we beat the coltsies on the way to the 4th SB championship. The league jealosy of BB and Pats has reached epidemic proportions.

Rawky77 · 12-13-2007, 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by BigMike

enough of this chit already - we all know goodell isnt going to take this up, so lets just kill the jets on sunday and make sure we beat the coltsies on the way to the 4th SB championship. The league jealosy of BB and Pats has reached epidemic proportions.

Big memo to anyone looking at Josh: He is not the architect of this offense, The inventor of this offense is Martz of the Rams and BB chose Josh as OC to implement it because he was virgin ground that is he had no previous offense to defend or untrain. BB really liked the Martz offense and saw it strategic value especially in an NFL that is slow to change. This offense can be highly successful for many yrs to come.

SoonerPatriot · 12-13-2007, 09:55 PM

McDaniels or Pees won't be getting any HC jobs. At best such talk is a year away. I took it as Florio more rooting for that to happen (to weeken the Pats) than trying to fan flames.

He may have a point that the Petrino disaster may make owners less likely to hire college coaches (in the short term) but I'm not sure it opens the gaping hole Florio hopes it does when it comes to hiring someone like McDaniels who is still quite young.

***MoLewisrocks*** · 12-14-2007, 05:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Rawky77

Big memo to anyone looking at Josh: He is not the architect of this offense, The inventor of this offense is Martz of the Rams and BB chose Josh as OC to implement it because he was virgin ground that is he had no previous offense to defend or untrain. BB really liked the Martz offense and saw it strategic value especially in an NFL that is slow to change. This offense can be highly successful for many yrs to come.

BS - Josh had been running a very different version of the BB offense for 2 years before the weapons to enable an OC to run this version of the BB offense appeared. Martz offense was totally reliant on brainless timing and a hefty dose of HOF RB turned mediot who has never forgiven us for hitting him when he had the ball and hitting him when he didn't and crushing his dynasty wannabe team and turning his HC into an OC incapable of reprising the Mike Martz offense anywhere else ever since.

It's all well and good to be a genius, but at the end of the day it's the efficient implementor who snag rings. That's the beauty of Belichick vs. Martz - our genius understood that you flexibly adapt your system to suit available talent or you fail. His young OC should be as coveted for what he did with chewing gum and string to work with last season as what he's done with a pro bowl crew this season. Sure he had Brady in both instances, but Brady wasn't any to happy with the 2006 crew out of the gate. Josh helped him make that work to the tune of a first half lead in the AFCC.

I don't sense the egocamiacal impatience in Josh that plagued Eric, but if we go 19-0 this season he will most assuredly vault to the short list for 2008 and unless we unravel in 2008 he will be getting lots of attention in 2009. Particularly from franchises looking to install a young QB, since Josh has coached that position here simultaneously as well.

OtisCampbell · 12-14-2007, 06:09 AM

I'm thinking it might be a little while before another just over 30 Belichick protege gets a head coaching job. The doughboy hasn't really been lighting it up in the big city

Patsfanin Philly · 12-14-2007, 07:14 AM

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Originally Posted by OtisCampbell

The doughboy hasn't really been lighting it up in the big city

More like burning it down..........................